What does SOS mean on an iPhone? AT&T cellphone outage creates confusion for some

Major cellular carriers like AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile are reporting significant outages Thursday morning, which created some confusion for iPhone users whose phones were in SOS mode.

What does it mean when your iPhone says SOS?

Apple Support says if you see "No Service" or "Searching" in the status bar on your iPhone or iPad, your device isn't connected to a cellular network. If you see "SOS" or "SOS only" in the status bar, your device can still make emergency calls. The feature is available in the United States, Canada and Australia.

Is AT&T down? Is Verizon down? Is T-Mobile down? Is Cricket Wireless down?

According to Downdetector, AT&T outages were at 74,014 reports nationally as of 8 a.m. Eastern Time Thursday morning. Verizon outages peaked at 4,336 reports at 8:07 a.m., T-Mobile users reported 1,922 outages at its peak around 8:09 a.m. and Cricket Wireless outages peaked at 13,866 reports at 8:07 a.m.

When will AT&T service be restored?

There have been no reports yet as to when service will return.

This article originally appeared on Record-Courier: What does SOS mean on an iPhone? What is SOS mode?