The satellite is 800 miles up. I don’t think holding your phone 3 feet above your head is going to help too much with that. Lol. But I do remember the days when it did help with cell service. So if you see a guy doing this you can be sure he’s came from the old school.
I found out if you turn off automatic network selection and select a random network that you don't have access too it will allow SOS via satellite to start
@@upstatespeedtests yep! reason why this works is cause it tricks apple into thinking you have no service. they can't just allow everyone to use satelites no matter what cause then massive congestion and no one gets to text anymore
fun fact, the blue text bubbles actually indicate E2E Encryption, that's why the satellite messages are green because you're unable to get that E2E via satellite
This service is enabled by Global Star ( $GSAT ). Not Asts. ASTS has just one satellite in orbit. Its not possible to supply global texting with one satellite.
I think the issue you were having with the greyed out send button was due to going over the 140 character limit, since it showed 150/140 right near the send button. Do you think that character limit will raise over time, or is it a restriction with the bandwidth on the satellite and that is to ensure your message will send relatively quickly?
@upstatespeedtests you were texting via SMS, which will always have a 140 character limit. In order to use iMessage via Satelite, the receipent will need be running iOS 18 beta or later. Because you were texting another iMessage user that was still on iOS 17 (or lower), the messages were only sending via SMS. Their iOS 17 device will also try to send an iMessage back and fail. Once iOS 18 adoption reaches high numbers, then everyone will be able to receive iMessages from senders who are connected via Satelite. RCS via Satellite will remain unsupported. Apple said that the RCS protocol has not been optimized to send messages over Satellite. CNET did a video demoing Satellite messaging with an apple employee providing commentary.
This is the third video. I’ve watched please answer. How do you send a satellite message if the sender is in a area with cell phone service and the receiver is not??
The reason your messages stay green is to let you know they are being sent as SMS/MMS and has no encryption only chats through iCloud get encrypted and blue bubble anything else is green to let you know it’s unencrypted
The satellite is 800 miles up. I don’t think holding your phone 3 feet above your head is going to help too much with that. Lol. But I do remember the days when it did help with cell service. So if you see a guy doing this you can be sure he’s came from the old school.
im 35 now so I guess I count as “old school”….ugh
t can still help with cell service. At normal hight level T-Mobile gets about 20mbps right at an outside wall. Move it up about 9ft 300mbps lol.
you can only send 140 characters per message via satellite
i was shouting at my screen "YOU CAN NOT SEND THAT BECAUSE THE MESSAGE CONTAINS TOO MANY LETTERS" lol
lol eventually I figured it out!
@@upstatespeedtests haha great video good testing it in places where people are most of the time when you are out.. under trees ahah
*How would you know when you need to receive a message?*
I’m guessing inbound messages just come in when you’re connected.
I’m on 18.1 beta 5 and i was spinning around in my tent to keep the signal. I’m sure it will improve but oh boy…what a pain!
I found out if you turn off automatic network selection and select a random network that you don't have access too it will allow SOS via satellite to start
Cool so technically, I could do this in the middle of town
@@upstatespeedtests yep! reason why this works is cause it tricks apple into thinking you have no service. they can't just allow everyone to use satelites no matter what cause then massive congestion and no one gets to text anymore
thanks for this bro... in the real world this is what matters.
fun fact, the blue text bubbles actually indicate E2E Encryption, that's why the satellite messages are green because you're unable to get that E2E via satellite
This service is enabled by Global Star ( $GSAT ). Not Asts. ASTS has just one satellite in orbit. Its not possible to supply global texting with one satellite.
For some reason it only let's you do a text when all the carriers don't have coverage
the notch you were talking about is called dynamic island
Now that I'm 35 my brain occasionally stops working… I knew that lol
@@upstatespeedtests 😂 it’s all good, I’m still watching the video
I think the issue you were having with the greyed out send button was due to going over the 140 character limit, since it showed 150/140 right near the send button. Do you think that character limit will raise over time, or is it a restriction with the bandwidth on the satellite and that is to ensure your message will send relatively quickly?
I'm sure it will go up as bandwidth on their satellites improves…
@@upstatespeedtests just wait for starlinkj to enable messaging via NTN-LTE network on t-mobile
@upstatespeedtests you were texting via SMS, which will always have a 140 character limit. In order to use iMessage via Satelite, the receipent will need be running iOS 18 beta or later. Because you were texting another iMessage user that was still on iOS 17 (or lower), the messages were only sending via SMS. Their iOS 17 device will also try to send an iMessage back and fail. Once iOS 18 adoption reaches high numbers, then everyone will be able to receive iMessages from senders who are connected via Satelite. RCS via Satellite will remain unsupported. Apple said that the RCS protocol has not been optimized to send messages over Satellite. CNET did a video demoing Satellite messaging with an apple employee providing commentary.
"The notch, or how you call it these days" or "the little ear menu" 😅
This is the third video. I’ve watched please answer. How do you send a satellite message if the sender is in a area with cell phone service and the receiver is not??
I would think the person on satellite would receive your message when they connect… But I could be wrong
“Images are a little bigger then texts” bro you think? It’s 20k times bigger than
Dang all carriers have no service. If you’re stranded, you’re SOL
There’s some places you can get blimps of service… but your mileage may vary
The reason your messages stay green is to let you know they are being sent as SMS/MMS and has no encryption only chats through iCloud get encrypted and blue bubble anything else is green to let you know it’s unencrypted
RCS is encrypted
@@cd9954 encrypted in transit but not E2E like iMessage
are you getting iphone 16 next month?
Maybe 🤔
woeful to watch
can't hear you over the 70's porn music
70’s porn music was barely in the budget
Hi, do you know if this will be a extra charge for this feature?, or is it free?
Free for now… rumored that they might charge for it in the future
@@upstatespeedtests thank you!
You moving around was sending me into a rage 😂😂😂😂
My bad