With iPhone 14, Apple introduced Emergency SOS via Satellite, which lets users contact emergency services in places where there’s no…

    • deleted@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It’s not spying… actually it’s to send your location one time upon your request. And you need to manually aim your phone.

      Id not be surprised if one time location send would take 3-5% of the battery as it’ll take 15-60 seconds to transmit you location.

      The satellite is 1400km away so not your average 3km cellular tower.

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      1 year ago

      I mean, the connection to the satellite is already barely powerful to send a few bytes of text.

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            1 year ago

            But with spots without? For those that could be the use case…Nit even to track you down to the meter but know the facinity you are in

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              1 year ago

              Duh, that’s what the damn location service is for, if you don’t want to be tracked don’t use a damn phone in the first place.