

What iPhone “SOS” means and how to fix itīecause of these outages and connectivity issues, iPhone users are noticing an “SOS” icon in their device’s status bar.

This outage appears to have also had ripple affects across AT&T and Verizon, though neither of those carriers suffered an outage to the degree of T-Mobile. T-Mobile attributed the outage to a third-party fiber interruption. The company’s president of technology, Neville Ray, took to Twitter to say that there’s been a “significant improvement” in network availability and things are “operating near normal levels.”

The T-Mobile outage appears to be largely resolved. Here’s what that means and how to fix it if you’re still stuck in SOS mode… T-Mobile’s major network outage For iPhone users in particular, this outage meant that the “SOS” icon was displayed in the status bar. T-Mobile suffered a major outage across parts of the United States last night, impacting voice, data, and messaging services.
