Amber Alert

I just ran into this too. Apparently, you cannot cut off the Presidential alert. Very, very creepy.

Dale

 

+1

 

Yea, its dumb.

 

The President or the alert ?

 

Both!

Dale

 

Don'tcha know - the government does whatever it wants now. Obama said so! On a serious note, it doesn't just go to iPhones - it goes to all smart phones, mine included.

 

I can't seem to find this setting on my phone. I have an android.

 

Pull up your apps drawer and you'll see an "Emergency Alerts" app.

Open it up and you can turn off the Amber Alert, Severe Weather and Extreme Alert, alerts. Of course as was said the Presidential alert cannot be turned off.

I only have the amber alert turned off.

 

I found it. I don't see this as a bad thing. I hardly ever get an alert. Why wouldn't you want one? What if you saved some girl from a kidnapper?

 

For some reason some people get a lot of alerts.

One of my managers asked me to help her turn hers off. She was getting alerts all the time for some reason.

 

What if I am the kidnapper? Who wants to be bothered while they're working?

 

I turned ours off when it went off in the very early morning hours for an Amber Alert that was literally hundreds of miles away. I'm supposed to look out my window at 3 AM? no.

 

I know which one you're talking about. It was only 20 miles away from me! I was still pissed about it.

 

I LOL'd.

 

What iPhone do you have?

Where is the switch in settings?