Down-Detector<\/strong><\/a>.’<\/p>\nMost users who lost service saw their iPhones display a “SOS” or “SOS Only” message at the top of their screen.<\/p>\n
Calls, texts and mobile data were all affected, as was certain two-factor authentication methods.<\/p>\n
The cities most affected included: Atlanta, New York City, Boston, Tampa, Miami and Chicago.<\/p>\n
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Verizon said the outage was due to a ‘software issue.’<\/p>\n
Verizon posted to Twitter\/X<\/strong><\/a> late Saturday night that the service restoration was underway, but did not disclose a reason for the outage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major Verizon service outage across the country has been resolved. More than 22,000 outages were reported late\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":190361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[22],"tags":[106478,4960,39110,39108,106474,106480,39079,39131,25291,106479,13810,27485,745,39042,70300,27483,69312,106477,106475,106473,106476,39058,65,2019,2020,241,27487,16044,25605,106472,39061,39105,106471,69271,39074,70301,106481,39136,10740,793,39095,158,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-190360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-computing","tag-access-control","tag-apple-inc","tag-apple-inc-hardware","tag-apple-inc-products","tag-apple-inc-software","tag-applications-of-cryptography","tag-arm-architecture","tag-arm-based-computers","tag-authentication","tag-computer-access-control","tag-computer-security","tag-computers","tag-computing","tag-consumer-electronics","tag-cybersecurity-engineering","tag-digital-media","tag-discontinued-apple-inc-products","tag-discontinued-flagship-smartphones","tag-discontinued-iphones","tag-discontinued-smartphones","tag-flagship-smartphones","tag-information-appliances","tag-information-technology","tag-ios","tag-iphone","tag-macos","tag-mobile-computers","tag-mobile-phones","tag-mobile-software","tag-mobile-telecommunications-user-equipment","tag-personal-computing","tag-personal-digital-assistants","tag-personal-information-managers","tag-portable-computers","tag-portable-electronics","tag-security-engineering","tag-security-technology","tag-smart-devices","tag-smartphones","tag-software","tag-tablet-computers","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}