Apple Expanding Satellite-Delivered iPhone Messaging Capabilities

Apple is rolling out text messaging-via-satellite capabilities for iPhone 14 and later generations, said Ronak Shah, director-internet technologies product marketing, at the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference this week. He said it follows on existing iPhone emergency messaging capabilities via satellite. Text messages sent via satellite are end-to-end encrypted, and Apple also supports satellite-delivered messaging to people not on iMessage via SMS messaging via satellite, Shah said. The SOS messaging capability, in partnership with Globalstar, debuted in 2022 (see 2211100005).