My iPhone is showing SOS, what can I do?

You may need to contact your carrier for help -

If you see No Service, Searching, or SOS on your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support

how can I call my carrier if I can't have outgoing or receive calls??!!>

All of the replies say to "contact" your carrier. Common sense tells you that this would be using another device with an Internet connection to reach the "chat support" at the carrier or using another phone to call the carrier.

The SOS issue is not going to go away until your carrier gets to work on the connection status between their cellular network and your phone.

SOS means that your phone has lost its connection to your carrier's cellular network.

So, contact your carrier and ask them for help reestablishing service.

Check to ensure there are no new updates to the phone.

If so, install the update.

If that doesn't work, then turn cellular data off, then on.

If that fails, then power off your phone.

Lastly, contact your carrier for assistance.

Hope that helps. The first worked for me.

fishingjeannie wrote:

How do I fix the SOS on my iPhone?

You may need to contact your carrier for help -

If you see No Service, Searching, or SOS on your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support

(by Kurtosis12)

Nathaniellee28 wrote:

In the corner of my phone, it says SOS how do I get that off?

Do you read the article linked to in the very first post in this thread?

If you see SOS, No Service, or Searching on your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support

Thetruth1226 wrote:

How do I get sos off

Do you read the article linked to in the very first post in this thread?

If you see SOS, No Service, or Searching on your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support

You may need to contact your carrier for help -

If you see No Service, Searching, or SOS on your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support

This worked for me yesterday

Since I have AT&T I signed onto my ATT App and located the send a refresh to my device Do not reboot your device when it ask you to -

Then I went into my settings - General - Shutdown - Transfer or Reset iPhone - Click Reset - Now select Reset Network Settings - now when prompted to restart the iPhone do so

Give it a few minutes then turn your iPhone back on you "should" see your carrier or in this case AT&T reappear now try making a call on carrier network if it works you are good still but give it a few minutes as mine kept going into SOS and back out but eventually it stuck on the carrier network

Then simply reconnect to your WiFi network - working

The bottom line is your phone is having communication issues with your cell service. You will need to contact your cellular carrier and work it out with them. It might be something as simple as a bad SIM card.

How you contact then is something you will have to figure out.

AnQor wrote:

What can I do to take the SOS off my iPhone?

Do you read the article linked to in the very first post in this thread?

If you see SOS, No Service, or Searching on your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support

If you have a SIM, take it out and re-insert. That worked for me without even starting my device. Also make sure you didn’t accidentally turn off your cellular data by swiping down on your screen. Hopefully this helps

mariasantosmartinez wrote:

My phone is showing sos on the right upper hand side. What can I do?

Do you read the article linked to in the very first post in this thread?

If you see SOS, No Service, or Searching on your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support

Have you looked at and followed any of the steps in the following link?

If you see No Service, Searching, or SOS on your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support

Western308 wrote:

I have SOS on my phone up above on right bar I can’t send messages etc

Do you read the article linked to in the very first post in this thread?

If you see SOS, No Service, or Searching on your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support