Apple is giving iPhone 14 and 15 users another free year of satellite features

iPhone 14 and iPhone 15 users are getting different twelvemonth of escaped entree to outer connectivity features, according to a footnote connected Apple’s newsroom posts for the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Pro. “The escaped proceedings volition beryllium extended for iPhone 14 and iPhone 15 users who person activated their instrumentality successful a state that supports Apple’s outer features anterior to 12 a.m. PT connected September 9, 2025,” Apple says.

Apple primitively launched its Emergency SOS work via outer soon aft it released the iPhone 14 lineup in November 2022, and astatine the time, Apple said the diagnostic would beryllium escaped for the archetypal 2 years. (The diagnostic is inactive escaped for 2 years aft activation connected iPhone 14 models and newer.) But successful 2023, Apple added an further escaped twelvemonth for existing iPhone 14 users, meaning that the deadline to perchance commencement paying for the earliest adopters would beryllium November 2025. Now, it appears that deadline has been bumped to November 2026.

With iOS 18 past year, Apple expanded its outer messaging features to fto you substance friends oregon household erstwhile you’re disconnected the grid. Today, Apple besides announced that the caller Apple Watch Ultra 3 volition person outer connectivity features.