Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A massive Verizon outage Jan. 14, downed tens of thousands of Verizon phones, with Verizon customers eager to "fix" SOS mode on ...

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 ...

Did you get caught up in Verizon's massive outage this week? Millions of customers saw "SOS" at the top of their phone screen instead of the usual graph of connection bars. Verizon has since restored ...

Verizon is experiencing a major outage across the U.S. today, with hundreds of thousands of customers reporting issues with the network on Downdetector. iPhone users with Verizon may see "SOS" in the ...