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Apple’s Emergency SOS Live Video is now available in Brazil
Thanks to a new partnership with RapidSOS, emergency services in Brazil can now request live video from iPhone users. Here are the details.
Not everyone knows this, but one of the iPhone’s many emergency features is the ability to share live video with emergency services during a call.
If requested by emergency services you can use Emergency SOS Live Video to stream live video or upload existing photos and videos to emergency services.
Apple notes that emergency services can retain a copy of the shared video, and that users can choose whether to accept or decline a request to share video or photos. Apple also says that “Emergency SOS Live Video is available on iPhone 14 or later, is subject to device limitations, and may not be available in all situations.”
That said, public safety AI company RapidSOS announced today that Apple’s Emergency SOS Live Video is now available to emergency communications centers (ECCs) across Brazil, allowing iPhone users to “securely share live video at the request of 190 during an emergency.”
RapidSOS notes that this is the same technology it first enabled for emergency services in the United States with the release of iOS 18 in September 2024, and adds three key features of this integration:
Commenting on today’s announcement, RapidSOS founder and CEO Michael Martin said, “RapidSOS was proud to be the first platform to enable this capability in the United States,” adding that the company is “committed to bringing that same life-saving technology to emergency services around the world.”
To learn more about today’s announcement, follow this link. You can also learn more about Apple’s Emergency SOS Live Video here.
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