On January 14, 2026, Verizon customers across the United States faced one of the most disruptive outages in recent memory. Beginning around 12:30 PM ET, users reported being unable to make calls, send ...

Apple is working on end-to-end encryption for RCS in iOS 26.3 Beta 2. The carrier bundles for the beta suggest Apple has added a new setting that would allow carriers to enable encryption for RCS for ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Why Your Verizon Phone Might Be in SOS Mode Right Now - Michael Vi / Shutterstock.com If you're a Verizon customer who's noticed ...

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 ...

Downdetector reported 126,169 Verizon outage reports as of 1:16 p.m. ET and as many as 180,152 outage reports at 12:46 p.m. ET. The cities with the most reported Verizon outages include: A Verizon ...

One of the country’s major cell phone providers appears to be experiencing big problems on Wednesday. Verizon subscribers took to social media to complain that their phones were left without service ...

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 ...