Is your flight status in limbo with the global IT outage? You may be able check on your flight status without a web browser or third-party app.
Is your flight status in limbo with the global IT outage? You may be able check on your flight status without a web browser or third-party app.
A massive, global IT outage grounded flights early Friday for major US airlines — including American Airlines and United. The outage brought down Windows PCs, throwing into disarray airports, financial institutions, emergency services and other businesses.
If you’re having trouble contacting your airline or finding the status of your flight on your airlines website or app, there might be another way to track a flight without even having to leave the Messages app on your iPhone.
That’s right. There’s a hidden flight tracker built right into iMessage that you probably would have never noticed unless you threw in the right combination of details within a message.
It’s easy to check the status of the flight, and you can easily share the info with anyone else that needs to know.How to track your flight via iMessage
Before we start, there are a few prerequisites you must meet:
Make sure iMessage is enabled (it doesn’t work with SMS/MMS).
You’ll need your flight number somewhere in your text messages, whether you’ve sent that information to someone (even yourself) or it’s been sent to you.
