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About a week ago my phone went bonkers with a weather alert, warning of potential flash floods. I would say this was roughly as distracting as an air raid sire

by sk5t 13y ago

About a week ago my phone went bonkers with a weather alert, warning of potential flash floods. I would say this was roughly as distracting as an air raid siren... it wasn't raining and to my knowledge no flash floods actually came to visit destruction upon the Philadelphia region that day. It seems absurd that there's no setting in iOS to disable this nonsense without calling up the phone company. Can we at least have a graduated system of alert terrifyingness out of which to opt?

numo16 13y ago
> It seems absurd that there's no setting in iOS to disable this nonsense without calling up the phone company There is: Settings > Notifications > Government Alerts (at the bottom)
- sk5t 13y ago
  Cool, thanks for the pointer. I'd never scrolled past the start of the enormous list of notification center apps.
volker48 13y ago
Yeah it woke me up at 2 AM despite my do not disturb being set during that time.
- mitchty 13y ago
  Don't you want this to alert you for things like floods/earthquakes/etc even with do not disturb? I don't think do not disturb means ignore alerts about weather or other life threatening (to you at least) alerts.
  - dubfan 13y ago
    I'd love a system that could warn me of earthquakes.
    - hackinthebochs 13y ago
      It's not out of the question actually. The speed that earthquakes propagate can give those not at the epicenter a handful of seconds to take cover under a fast response alert system. Those who live in earthquake prone areas have probably experienced watching a live news broadcast and having the anchors react to an earthquake a few seconds before you felt it yourself.
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dubfan 13y ago
I disabled the alerts on iPhone by going into Notifications settings, scrolling to the bottom and toggling the Amber Alerts and Emergency Alerts off. This is on an AT&T phone, not sure if it's carrier-specific. A friend of mine experienced a similar thing before my phone had the capability. His phone went crazy with a "blizzard warning", even though there were no storms around, and I don't believe the NWS has ever issued a blizzard warning for this area.
- numo16 13y ago
  > I disabled the alerts on iPhone by going into Notifications settings, scrolling to the bottom and toggling the Amber Alerts and Emergency Alerts off. This is on an AT&T phone, not sure if it's carrier-specific. Also on Verizon iPhone. Received Tornado warning alert via iPhone Emergency Alert night we had 5 tornadoes...it was awesome!
dkuntz2 13y ago
There is a setting in iOS to disable it... Settings > Notifications > down at the bottom there's a Government Alerts section, with AMBER Alerts and Emergency Alerts toggles. At least, there is with AT&T, because I recall getting a notification saying my phone's software was updated to be complient with phone company requirements, which added the two toggles.

by sk5t 13y ago

numo16 13y ago

> It seems absurd that there's no setting in iOS to disable this nonsense without calling up the phone company There is: Settings > Notifications > Government Alerts (at the bottom)

sk5t 13y ago
Cool, thanks for the pointer. I'd never scrolled past the start of the enormous list of notification center apps.

volker48 13y ago

Yeah it woke me up at 2 AM despite my do not disturb being set during that time.

mitchty 13y ago
Don't you want this to alert you for things like floods/earthquakes/etc even with do not disturb? I don't think do not disturb means ignore alerts about weather or other life threatening (to you at least) alerts.
- dubfan 13y ago
  I'd love a system that could warn me of earthquakes.
  - hackinthebochs 13y ago
    It's not out of the question actually. The speed that earthquakes propagate can give those not at the epicenter a handful of seconds to take cover under a fast response alert system. Those who live in earthquake prone areas have probably experienced watching a live news broadcast and having the anchors react to an earthquake a few seconds before you felt it yourself.
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dubfan 13y ago

I disabled the alerts on iPhone by going into Notifications settings, scrolling to the bottom and toggling the Amber Alerts and Emergency Alerts off. This is on an AT&T phone, not sure if it's carrier-specific. A friend of mine experienced a similar thing before my phone had the capability. His phone went crazy with a "blizzard warning", even though there were no storms around, and I don't believe the NWS has ever issued a blizzard warning for this area.

numo16 13y ago
> I disabled the alerts on iPhone by going into Notifications settings, scrolling to the bottom and toggling the Amber Alerts and Emergency Alerts off. This is on an AT&T phone, not sure if it's carrier-specific. Also on Verizon iPhone. Received Tornado warning alert via iPhone Emergency Alert night we had 5 tornadoes...it was awesome!

dkuntz2 13y ago

There is a setting in iOS to disable it... Settings > Notifications > down at the bottom there's a Government Alerts section, with AMBER Alerts and Emergency Alerts toggles. At least, there is with AT&T, because I recall getting a notification saying my phone's software was updated to be complient with phone company requirements, which added the two toggles.