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 ...

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 ...

A widespread Verizon outage has left many customers' phones displaying "SOS" or "no service." The outage is nationwide, with over 176,000 user reports on Downdetector.com. When a phone is in "SOS" ...

What is Verizon SOS mode issue and how to fix it? Verizon users are currently experiencing a network outage that has caused many phones to display "SOS" or "SOS only" instead of the usual signal bars.