Hello, My phone, being the idiot it is, likes to give me amber alerts. From...Austin Texas, I know not why. Any way of turning these off?
If it helps, I live in Scotland. On 6/16/19, sherrywells1...@gmail.com <sherrywells1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Luckily we in the US can turn Amber alerts off. I would certainly be of no > help there. If I was sighted, I would have the Amber alert on. I agree > that anyone who would call 911 to complain about an Amber alert is a selfish > idiot. > > > > Sherry Wells > > > > > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of > Sieghard Weitzel > Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2019 12:28 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: Emergency Alerts - Any Way to Edit These? > > > > And if you are in Canada the Setting to turn these off does not exist, our > government feels that if they put out such an alert everybody should get it > although I believe it won’t play if your phone is muted. > > Recently an amber alert was issued in Ontario for a missing 3-year old boy > and I think it was around 4 or 5 in the morning. About a dozen people called > 9 1 1 to complain about being woken up and who gives the government the > right to do this and they just don’t care anyways if a child was missing. > The boy was found quite quickly, by the way, people who react like this are > such selfish idiots. > > > > > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > <viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > On Behalf Of > Kimberly > Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2019 9:08 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > Subject: Re: Emergency Alerts - Any Way to Edit These? > > > > Yes, it’s definitely an on or off setting. > > Sent from Kimber's iPhone > > The happy ending still beckons, and it is in the hope of grasping it that we > go on.—Annie Proulx > > > On Jun 16, 2019, at 10:26 AM, <sherrywells1...@gmail.com > <mailto:sherrywells1...@gmail.com> > <sherrywells1...@gmail.com > <mailto:sherrywells1...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Thanks Kimberly, I don’t know how I missed this; just thought Zoom was my > last entry I guess. Unfortunately looks like this is all or nothing, no > fine tuning. > > > > Sherry Wells > > > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > <viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > On Behalf Of > Kimberly > Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2019 10:20 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > Subject: Re: Emergency Alerts - Any Way to Edit These? > > > > Under settings, go into notifications and scroll all the way to the bottom. > There’s a heading that says something like government notifications and > under that you will see settings for amber alerts and emergency > notifications. That’s where you can turn those off. > > Sent from Kimber's iPhone > > The happy ending still beckons, and it is in the hope of grasping it that we > go on.—Annie Proulx > > > On Jun 16, 2019, at 10:12 AM, <sherrywells1...@gmail.com > <mailto:sherrywells1...@gmail.com> > <sherrywells1...@gmail.com > <mailto:sherrywells1...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hello List, > > We had some tornado warnings in my area & my phone dutifully blasted me > with > an alert. At 4A M I got another alert but found it was for a flash flood. > There are some areas in my county where people would need this alert but I > do not need it in my downtown apartment building. Is there any way to > change something so that I get alerts for tornados & impending alien > invasions but not flash floods? Also, is there any way to change the alert > sound so it is not quite so loud? I looked through settings but could find > nothing. 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