Apple’s New ‘Game Changer’ iPhone Update Brings Starlink Satellite Access

Apple has just released iOS 18.3, its latest iPhone update (full details here) and the software contained a surprise extra: compatibility with the Starlink satellite network, according to a new report.

“Apple Inc. has been secretly working with SpaceX and T-Mobile US Inc. to add support for the Starlink network in its latest iPhone software, providing an alternative to the company’s in-house satellite-communication service,” according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.

Gurman describes the software update that supports the technology as an “under-the-radar move,” and the tie-up between the companies as “a surprise.”

While T-Mobile already had a Starlink satellite option for users to send emergency messages when outside cellular range, it was for Samsung phones only. And Apple’s Emergency SOS via satellite service used the rival Globalstar network.


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Apple’s New ‘Game Changer’ iPhone Update Brings Starlink Satellite Access

Apple has been “secretly working” with SpaceX and the result is that the latest iOS software update means iPhones can access Starlink.

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[Ghoti Ichthus]

I didn't know I had access to StarLink

(or it had access to my cell)

 

[1LoverofGod]

I wonder.
If the iPhone is connected to Star link and if Star link is ultimately connected to the Stargate data system.
I imagine that everything going to the phone or activity done on the phone will be able to be collected as data on the Stargate. Hmmm

 

[Tall Timbers]

I didn't know I had access to StarLink

(or it had access to my cell)

Your Apple v3 doesn't have access to Starlink

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[Tall Timbers]

When Musk first started launching satellites I figured he would include technology for cell phone connectivity and then at some point design and introduce his own cell phone.