Editors' Note: Verizon appears to be suffering an outage in the U.S. on January 14, 2026, which may explain the appearance of the SOS alert on your iPhone. See our Verizon outage live blog for more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Your phone SOS? You're not alone. A Verizon outage today, Wednesday, Jan. 14, is causing many users to report that their phone is ...

WASHINGTON — Numerous Verizon customers across the U.S. experienced a service outage Wednesday that left many iPhones in "SOS mode." More than 170,000 customers reported issues with their cell service ...

A widespread Verizon outage has left many customers' phones displaying "SOS" or "no service." The outage is nationwide, with over 176,000 user reports on Downdetector.com. When a phone is in "SOS" ...

If your phone is suddenly displaying "SOS," "no service," or "emergency calls only" and you're on Verizon's network, it's probably not your phone's fault, and you're certainly not alone. More than 100 ...

Verizon today experienced a major outage, which it now says has been resolved. To make up for the inconvenience, the carrier has promised that all affected customers will be credited an unspecified ...