Is there wifi, phone signal or electricity at a desert camp?

Manage your expectations and you'll be pleasantly surprised; arrive expecting hotel connectivity and you'll be frustrated. On electricity, almost every camp runs on solar panels or a small generator, which usually means power for limited hours — often just the evening and early morning — rather than around the clock. Standard camps may have a couple of shared charging points in the dining tent; luxury tents often have a socket inside. My standing advice is to charge everything fully before you leave the last town and carry a power bank, because you don't want your camera dying as the dunes turn gold at sunset.

Phone signal is better than people assume but still unreliable. Out on the Erg Chebbi dunes you'll often catch a bar or two — Maroc Telecom (and its Inwi/Orange counterparts) tends to have the strongest coverage of the desert area — so it's usually possible to send a WhatsApp from the top of a dune or let family know you arrived. Data is spotty and slow, and it can vanish entirely in a dip between dunes. Don't count on a reliable call, but you're rarely completely cut off.

Wifi is the weakest link. At standard camps it's usually absent, and where it exists it's slow and shared among everyone, so streaming or video calls are off the table. A growing number of luxury camps advertise wifi, and some deliver a usable connection in the main tent, but I'd never promise a client they can reliably work or upload from the desert. If you genuinely need to be online, do it before you go in and let people know you'll be dark for a night.

Honestly, I'd encourage you to lean into the disconnection rather than fight it. A single night offline in the Sahara — no notifications, just silence, a fire, drumming and a sky thick with stars — is one of the most restorative things about the whole trip, and the people who put their phones away always tell me it was the best night's sleep and the best stargazing of their lives. Tell whoever's waiting on you that you'll be unreachable for an evening, then let the desert do its thing.