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When T-Mobile launched its T-Satellite service this summer, which allows you to send text messages and contact emergency services outside cellular coverage areas, the company promised that other apps would be able to work with data on the Starlink network starting in October. Fall has come early, however, because several apps now support T-Satellite data on both iOS and Android.
With the release of iOS 26, Apple joins Google in offering compatibility with a host of apps that benefit from connecting in remote areas, such as mapping, fitness, weather and location sharing utilities.
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Satellite communications are extremely limited compared to a phone's connection to a typical cellular or Wi-Fi network. Apps need to be specifically modified to work with a small stream of data, which is why the service was first available only for the built-in Messages app and for location sharing. T-Mobile said that its engineering relationships with Google and Apple enabled this initial app support, starting with the Pixel 10 phones.
Here's the current list:
Apple apps compatible with T-Satellite:
- Apple Compass
- Apple Fitness
- Apple Maps
- Apple Messages
- Apple Music
- Apple Weather
Android apps compatible with T-Satellite:
- AccuWeather
- AllTrails
- CalTopo
- Google Find Hub
- Google Maps
- Google Messages (with Gemini)
- Google Personal Safety
- onX Backcountry
- onX Hunt
- onX Offroad
- T-Life
- X
T-Mobile maintains this list on its T-Satellite Support page, and will no doubt continue to add supported apps to it.
According to Gavin Gee, senior director of product marketing at T-Mobile, the apps will work with T-Satellite regardless of which of T-Mobile's methods of the satellite service you use. If you have the Experience Beyond plan, it's included. But you can also add T-Satellite as a paid add-on to a different T-Mobile plan and get access to the apps. And if you subscribe to a competitor's plan but you've set up T-Satellite as a standalone service on a secondary eSIM, you'll also be able to take advantage of the apps.
When Google launched the Pixel 10 with app support more than a month ahead of the planned launch, Gee said, "Google, in their great efforts, have been first out of the gate here with the Pixel 10 device," Gee said. "And frankly, this feature is just too important for us to hold it back."
See also: I drove 120 miles to test T-Satellite for myself.
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