How to disable Amber alerts on your phone
- Thread starter The LoLRus
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I muted my alerts so they do not awaken me. If I am asleep, there is nothing I can do to help, therefore I don't need to see the message. It can wait until I wake up and check my phone.
Some people are not able to do that. I can’t. I’m responsible for the caretaking of others. I need to be reachable 24-7.
Even better! I keep mine on in case somebody urgently needs to reach me, but your method is foolproof.
This works, I never heard the emergency alert yesterday
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Goes off like three times a year...not a big inconvenience.
I agree it's not a big deal. Besides it could be something important in my area.
It scared the shit out of me! My phone is connected to my car while I drive and I was listening to music, loudly, and this just interrupted and was so loud and jarring, I jumped and swerved on the road. Stayed in lane but swerved
Also, my watch is a smartwatch and it is on vibrate so it was freaking me out because it vibrates differently when this alarm goes off and it doesn't stop.
This system is needed, I get that, but it is dangerous.
Also, my watch is a smartwatch and it is on vibrate so it was freaking me out because it vibrates differently when this alarm goes off and it doesn't stop.
This system is needed, I get that, but it is dangerous.
If it's an APPLE their new IOS has options for whitelisting certain number - and blocking all others number while in Do not disturb mode
this is also an emergency broadcast system so if you disable it you would not know if there was an incoming nuclear explosion from Pickering power plant -
Except I need the phone open to new callers. Plus I have some friends who call from unknown numbers, and they wouldn’t be able to get through.
Its a good ideas for those who can do it.
I hear the amber alert and immediately go into action, like Batman or Perry the platypus. Honestly, there is a severe disconnect here, what do LE or political bureaucrats expect the population to do, jump into our cars and patrol the highway? I think the amber alerts should go to LE, security personnel, maybe tow trucks. Its just not smart to engage the general population.
It's the public that finds child abductors, not the police. The police depend heavily on sightings called in by the public. There is only about one police officer per 1000 people. That's why the Amber Alert system exists. The police cannot put attending to other crimes such as robberies and assaults on hold to devote the numbers needed to find one child.
The system works.
Almost all abductions are as a result of a family member involved with the disappearance of a child. The only case of the public alerting police of an abduction I’ve read was where a mother and her son were eating dinner at a restaurant and were recognized in the alert. If a crazed individual makes off with a child, the alert at best might make him afraid and change his mind. Then again he is a psycho to do it anyway and it may not.
