Seeing SOS on your phone? You're not alone. Verizon confirmed an outage on its mobile delivery service on Wednesday that was impacting thousands of users Downdetector, a website that tracks service ...

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 ...

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 ...

Updates added to the end of the article. Verizon Wireless is suffering a massive outage in the US, with customers reporting their phones stuck in SOS mode with no cellular service. "We are aware of an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A widespread network outage affecting Verizon Wireless customers across the United States disrupted phone calls, text messages and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many Verizon customers can’t hear you now. There appears to be a widespread outage of Verizon cell phone service, according to ...

The latest version of Google Play Services includes code strings hinting at a new feature to sync Do Not Disturb across Android devices. The feature will likely live inside cross-device services, ...

A widespread Verizon cell phone service outage affected customers across the United States. At its peak, nearly 177,000 outages were reported to the monitoring site DownDetector. Many users' phones ...

Thousands of Verizon mobile users were thrown into “SOS” mode as the telecommunications giant experienced a widespread disruption to its cellular network. The nearly 10-hour outage left customers with ...