Your iPhone now lets apps send you ‘Critical Messages’ via SMS

There’s a new Priority Notifications feature in iOS 18.4 to ensure important messages and alerts get prominent Lock Screen placement. But a different feature entirely was added in a recent iOS update—‘Critical Messages’—that enables apps to send your iPhone highly important messages via SMS. Here’s how it works. New messaging feature involves very specific parameters to prevent spam With an iPhone update over the last few months, Apple has given developers a new capability to send SMS alerts to users. But it’s only intended for very specific and ‘critical’ situations. Here’s the description from Apple’s documentation: The Critical Messaging API provides a way for apps to deliver critical messages to a set of phone numbers. This can serve a number of purposes. For example, if an enterprise wants to receive check-ins from employees working in hazardous or rural environments, being able to automatically message a corporate check-in point may help check the safety of those employees wi ... Read full article.