Apple adds support for the Starlink satellite network on iPhone with iOS 18.3

Apple has added Support for connection with the Starlink satellite network on iPhone In his latest ‘software’ update iOS 18.3, by the hand of the telephone company T-Mobile so that users can prove the sending of text messages through satellite connection in the United States.

The technological launched on Monday iOS 18.3with some novelties such as its artificial intelligence system (AI), Apple Intelligenceand their functions are activated by default on compatible devices, in addition to correcting some errors.

However, with this latest ‘software’ update, Apple has also included in the iPhone devices the Compatibility with the Satellite Network of Space X, Starlink, which will allow users to start trying the sending and reception of text messages, as well as the possibility of Share your locationthrough the satellite connection of this service.

As Bloomberg has collected, Apple has been working with the company led by Elon Musk, SpaceXand the mobile network operator, T-Mobile, To add the stand for Starlink on iPhone, with the aim of provide an alternative to your internal satellite communication service which already has the technological, by the hand of Globalstar.

In this sense, it is an option that is available in the test format for users who use the company’s mobile network services T-Mobile in the United States, something that was previously only available as an option for Samsung phones, Specifically, with Z FOLD and S24 models.

With all this, as T-Movile details on their website, users who have an iPhone device compatible with the IOS 18.3 operating system version can now register to experience your beta test For the Starlink satellite network connection, and send satellite text messages, as well as share the location or contact emergency services, anywhere.

Also, users may Activate this connection satellite, as well as choose between using the connection through the GlobalStar or Spacex service, through the Device settings.

Following this line, Elon Musk has also pointed out, through an X publication, that images, music and audio podcast “should work” with the Starlink constellation of the current generation. He also detailed that the next -generation constellation will offer medium resolution video.

Medium resolution images, music & audio podcasts should work with the current generation Starlink direct-to-phone constellation.

Next generation constellation will do medium resolution video. https://t.co/yfDPbkgSJH

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 29, 2025