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Today's Verizon Outage Could Leave Your iPhone Stuck in SOS Mode. Here's the Fix

A portion of Verizon's network crumpled on Wednesday, with up to 175,000 customers seeing "SOS" in their phones' status bars instead of connection bars.

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Is Verizon down? When will wireless service SOS outage be fixed? Check Verizon outage map

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Is Verizon down? What does SOS mean on iPhone? When will outage be fixed?

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Verizon customers report phone service outages across U.S.

Verizon customers across the U.S. reported service outages on Wednesday, with many saying that their devices have been limited to SOS since about noon Eastern Time.

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Verizon Wireless customers report service outages nationwide Wednesday afternoon

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Thousands of Verizon customers in NY left with no signal after outage

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Verizon’s wireless network is back online after outage

This follows Verizon customers across the US, including several Verge writers, finding that service was spotty or nonexistent starting at around noon ET on January 14th, with phones switching to SOS M...

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Verizon wireless outage leaves iPhones stuck in SOS across the U.S.

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Many Verizon customers across the US hit by service outage

Apple Confirms iPhone Attacks—No Fix For Most Users

“There’s no workaround or user behavior that meaningfully mitigates this risk,” says Keeper Security’s Darren Guccione. Upgrading is "the only effective defense. Once patches are public, the exposure window widens for anyone who delays updating.”

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iOS 26.2 is here. What to know about the iPhone update

Since September, iPhone users have had the chance to update their phones to iOS 26, Apple's software update that ushered in new features like the Liquid Glass design and tools powered by Apple Intelligence. While iOS 26.1 came out in November to mixed reviews, the latest version of the iOS, 26.2, launched last month.