{"id":81063,"date":"2025-05-07T05:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T05:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/81063\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T05:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T05:40:10","slug":"iphone-13-gains-carrier-provided-satellite-connectivity-in-ios-18-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/81063\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone 13 gains carrier-provided satellite connectivity in iOS 18.5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Satellite-based messaging on an iPhone – Image Credit: Apple<\/p>\n


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Apple is expanding its carrier-provided satellite features to more iPhone models, with it set to be used on all iPhone 13<\/a> models as part of iOS 18.5. <\/p>\n

Apple issued its release candidate<\/a> for iOS 18.5<\/a> on Tuesday, ahead of an imminent full public release of the update. As part of a relatively small number of updates to the operating system for this generation, the RC build includes a change that affects the iPhone 13 models. <\/p>\n

According to the release notes, Apple writes “Support for carrier-provided satellite features is available on iPhone 13 (all models).” <\/p>\n

The carrier-provided satellite features run alongside Apple’s satellite-specific functions, such as Emergency SOS via Satellite, which communicate with satellites in cases where there is no carrier signal available. <\/p>\n

Some carriers have followed in offering their own version, augmenting their cellular network with satellites. For example, T-Mobile works with Starlink<\/a> to offer the functionality. <\/p>\n

This functionality has been available since iOS 18.3, and worked with the iPhone 14<\/a>, iPhone 15<\/a>, and iPhone 16<\/a> generations. However, the iOS 18.5 update expands the feature to work on the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro<\/a> models. <\/p>\n

Apple has not disclosed exactly when the iOS 18.5 update will be made available to the public, but the RC release indicates it will be arriving soon. <\/p>\n

Very late to the party<\/p>\n

While the expansion of the feature brings iPhone 13 up to speed when it comes to satellite communications, it could’ve been added a lot earlier. <\/p>\n

In August 2022<\/a>, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo<\/a> said that Apple had previously worked on developing satellite communications for the iPhone 13. This matched up with earlier claims elsewhere<\/a> that satellite communications would be on the way for that model. <\/p>\n

However, Kuo believes the iPhone 13 didn’t gain the feature since Apple hadn’t managed to sign up with a service partner to offer it to consumers. <\/p>\n

For its current efforts, Apple works with Globalstar, but Elon Musk’s SpaceX has allegedly stepped in to try and slow down<\/a> Apple’s satellite expansion to try and give Starlink an improved position. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Satellite-based messaging on an iPhone – Image Credit: Apple Apple is expanding its carrier-provided satellite features to more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3159],"tags":[1191,3562,1662,3553,3554,3084,3543,867,3550,3556,3564,3555,3569,3547,3548,1667,1666,3545,3546,3561,3542,3544,3541,3549,3563,3565,3551,3552,3557,3558,3560,3559,507,547,3568,3359,3566,3567,542,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-81063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-adobe","9":"tag-app-store","10":"tag-apple","11":"tag-apple-computer","12":"tag-apple-computer-inc","13":"tag-apple-inc","14":"tag-apple-tv","15":"tag-google","16":"tag-i-mac","17":"tag-ibook","18":"tag-ibook-store","19":"tag-imac","20":"tag-intel","21":"tag-ios-9","22":"tag-ios9","23":"tag-ipad","24":"tag-iphone","25":"tag-iphone-6","26":"tag-iphone-6s","27":"tag-ipod-classic","28":"tag-ipod-nano","29":"tag-ipod-shuffle","30":"tag-ipod-touch","31":"tag-itunes","32":"tag-itunes-store","33":"tag-mac-book","34":"tag-mac-os-x","35":"tag-mac-osx","36":"tag-mac-pro","37":"tag-macbook-pro","38":"tag-magic-mouse","39":"tag-magic-pad","40":"tag-microsoft","41":"tag-mobile","42":"tag-nokia","43":"tag-nvidia","44":"tag-research-in-motion","45":"tag-rim","46":"tag-samsung","47":"tag-technology","48":"tag-uk","49":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114464949726181925","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}