Just a few months after Apple added a backcountry SOS feature, it may have already saved the life of a man stuck in the Alaskan wilderness.
With a minimum price tag of $800, the iPhone 14 doesn’t come cheap. But the cost might seem small if it saves your life.
That’s evidently the case for a man who found himself stuck in Alaska’s northwestern wilderness on Dec. 1. He was traveling by snowmobile when he became stranded and couldn’t get back to help, according to a news release from Alaska’s Department of Public Safety.
The snowmobiler didn’t have phone service, but “activated an Apple Emergency SOS via satellite on his iPhone,” the release said.
Using the GPS coordinates sent from the phone, a volunteer team of search and rescue workers found the stranded man quickly. They transported him to the nearby town of Kotzebue, where state troopers said he had no injuries.
As of this writing, Alaska’s Department of Public Safety has not released details on what caused the man to become stranded.
As the Instagram post below illustrates, it’s not the first time this year an iPhone may have saved a life.
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