iPhone stuck in SOS mode after update

I’ve literally done all of the normal things myself to no avail. I’ve hard reset (powered it off with the up/down button and right side button) I’ve reset network settings, checked for “carrier updates” (I have AT&T) and still stuck on SOS mode! This is so frustrating! 😭

Yeah is there a way to fix it or by pass it cuz I know I have data I paid my bill literally two weeks ago and this started at two am this morning I really need to make calls especially to my partner who I need to help me with the baby since we’re moving this is a massive inconvenience and emergency calls only works for 911 some of us have emergencies that don’t involve 911 so that’s actually quiet useless

Mine is too, and I’m an OTR truck driver I have to have my phone to contact dispatch. This is not the first time my IPhone 15 Pro Max has started acting stupid. A few months ago my screen went dark and it took me awhile to get it to come back.

Mine is having the same issue, but I didn't even updated my phone this morning. I don't have automatic updates on, so I don't know why my phone is suddenly in SOS mode after shutting down and restarting my phone.

My IPhone is also stuck in SOS mode since early this morning. Tried powering off etc etc but stuck in SOS. Sending out an SOS TO THE WORLD. Please fix my IPhone Apple…Bluetooth works, wifi works… my family is on AT&T and their phones all work. I updated to new IOS and i got SOS!

What is going on, my phone and my husbands phone are stuck on SOS which is not good for me because I have health issues. Is there a way anyone knows how to fix it or are we just stuck until ATT figures this out?

Mugsysmommy wrote:

What is going on, my phone and my husbands phone are stuck on SOS which is not good for me because I have health issues. Is there a way anyone knows how to fix it or are we just stuck until ATT figures this out?

As Douglas Adams said, "Don't Panic".

There is a massive outage in the U.S. There is nothing you can do until the network issues are resolved.

AT&T customers report a massive outage, disrupting phone service across America

Okay I literally JUST updated my phone. I’ve been home all day. I use consumer cellular and never have had this issue before. Everything still works though. Like I’m still connected to my WiFi. And I’m able to search things up, scroll through TikTok. Is this an update thing or a service thing? I just want the SOS symbol to go away.

I noticed the same issue this morning. I also did several things but did not work. I manually updated iOS software and manually shutdown iPhone again after the update, then SOS mode was finally gone! I watched below YouTube video. You may check out what they say.

Title: “iPhone Stuck in SOS Mode? Here’s The REAL Fix!”

Hope you can solve this sticky issue.

MicL7 wrote:

I noticed the same issue this morning. I also did several things but did not work. I manually updated iOS software and manually shutdown iPhone again after the update, then SOS mode was finally gone! I watched below YouTube video. You may check out what they say.

Title: “iPhone Stuck in SOS Mode? Here’s The REAL Fix!”

Hope you can solve this sticky issue.

There is a massive cellular outage in the U.S. There is nothing you can do until the network issues are resolved. You can try using Wi-Fi calling.

AT&T customers report a massive outage, disrupting phone service across America

Reports are coming in that service is being restored.

I'm reading reports that all but a handful of people have had service restored. And the only remaining outages are in California. Not true. Still no service for my phone/family plan. We're in Houston.

bethlousteau wrote:

I'm reading reports that all but a handful of people have had service restored. And the only remaining outages are in California. Not true. Still no service for my phone/family plan. We're in Houston.

Other people have reported their service has been restored in Houston. But it may take a while for whatever the fix is to propagate across the network. You'll just need to be patient.

lobsterghost1 wrote:

There are people in my office who are also on AT&T whose service was restored two hours before my service was restored. I'm sure there are billions of bits and bytes of data, traveling over relays turning on service along the way.

Verizon is not always my favorite company but today they were.

Cole_white10 wrote:

That’s happening because of two solar flares that hit us just a few hours ago, they knocked out most mobile data services in the major citys

If it were that simple, various federal agencies wouldn't be investigating. No cause has yet been announced.

I know there was a major AT&T outage at this time, but today is March 8 and I am on Verizon. I updated and had the same problem.

When you start the update it asks if you want to connect to WiFi or use cellular data. The problem is that the latest update, 17.4, updates your carrier services.

I said I didn't want to connect to WiFi and so after it "finished" I couldn't connect to my carrier. I connected to a WiFi hotspot, and the phone said it wanted to update my carrier services. I let it do that, waited, still SOS. So I restarted the phone and all is good.

It seems like for Verizon at least, you need to be on WiFi when updating to 17.4