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How to get your phone to work amid major US cellular network outages
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0:59Now PlayingiPhone users have reported that their device is stuck on “SOS mode” which is preventing them from making calls or sending text messages amid a major cell phone outage Thursday affecting thousands of users across the US.
For affected iPhone users, the easiest workaround to get the smartphone working again is performing a hard reset — what Apple calls a “force restart” — according to the Daily Mail.
A major cellphone outage affected users across the US early Thursday — even stopping some police departments from being able to receive 911 calls.
AT&T seemed to have experienced the largest number of issues, with nearly 32,000 reports at around 4:30 a.m., according to data from DownDetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.
More than 800 service outages were also reported on T-Mobile and Verizon, although a spokesperson for the latter put it down to users reporting problems trying to call people with other services.
Others reported issues on smaller carriers including Boost Mobile, Consumer Cellular and Straight Talk Wireless.
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