Down-Detector<\/a>.’<\/p>\nMost users who lost service saw their iPhones display a “SOS” or “SOS Only” message at the top of their screen.<\/p>\n
Calls, texts and mobile data were all affected, as was certain two-factor authentication methods.<\/p>\n
The cities most affected included: Atlanta, New York City, Boston, Tampa, Miami and Chicago.<\/p>\n
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Verizon said the outage was due to a ‘software issue.’<\/p>\n
Verizon posted to Twitter\/X<\/a> late Saturday night that the service restoration was underway, but did not disclose a reason for the outage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major Verizon service outage across the country has been resolved. More than 22,000 outages were reported late\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[79016,11623,39286,39282,79012,60086,39334,39289,46603,79017,5407,3048,191,39241,40380,38419,39336,79015,79013,79011,79014,39250,11382,4535,4536,28484,39255,16776,39333,79010,39248,39303,79009,39257,39266,40381,79018,39323,3053,7271,39318,74],"class_list":["post-123379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-computing","tag-access-control","tag-apple-inc","tag-apple-inc-hardware","tag-apple-inc-products","tag-apple-inc-software","tag-applications-of-cryptography","tag-arm-architecture","tag-arm-based-computers","tag-authentication","tag-computer-access-control","tag-computer-security","tag-computers","tag-computing","tag-consumer-electronics","tag-cybersecurity-engineering","tag-digital-media","tag-discontinued-apple-inc-products","tag-discontinued-flagship-smartphones","tag-discontinued-iphones","tag-discontinued-smartphones","tag-flagship-smartphones","tag-information-appliances","tag-information-technology","tag-ios","tag-iphone","tag-macos","tag-mobile-computers","tag-mobile-phones","tag-mobile-software","tag-mobile-telecommunications-user-equipment","tag-personal-computing","tag-personal-digital-assistants","tag-personal-information-managers","tag-portable-computers","tag-portable-electronics","tag-security-engineering","tag-security-technology","tag-smart-devices","tag-smartphones","tag-software","tag-tablet-computers","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}