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Got my first Emergency Alert on VzW iPhone 5

I don't have it with my iPhone 5 on AT&T in Virginia. Maybe I need one of the new Share plans before that gets enabled. :D
 
jf1450 said:
Must be an iOS 6 thing. I've got that option in my 4S Settings.
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Worked on 5.1.1 for my 4S a while back. Loud obnoxious noise for a tornado warning while out at a restaurant... for a tornado 60 miles away.
 
Was it this?
 

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Just got my first snow emergency alert on my 4s.

I thought it was a fire or electrical alarm for the house and I thought I was for sure going to die.

I was just chilling on my iMac and then out of no where GURRRRRRR GURRRRRR GURRRRRR GUUUUURRRRRRR @1000% volume!!!!!

I'm so glad that I wasn't out in the public when this happened. :eek:
 
Got this for an Amber Alert a few weeks ago. I live in Pittsburgh, and the missing person was in Philadelphia. Everybody in the area with even just a basic feature phone got some kind of alert (whether a push notification on smart phones or a text message on feature phones).
 
Disabled it...

Sigh...

Got woken up this morning at 4:05 for a Flash Flood warning from the NWS.

Since I live on the top of minor rise, this isn't important to me, unlike tornados and other random things. Floods (at least around here) take a while to develop.

Now, I just got blasted with another one as the NWS decided to extend the flash flood warning to later today.

So, I turned it off. It would be great to have filtering on the iPhone side where I could tell it to be silent for some events and warn on others, but I doubt that's forthcoming.

Great feature overall but I'll be turning if off whenever we have extended periods of rain.
 
At least it is much more useful than the alerts on television because most people always have their phone with them. Things like tornado warnings are very important even more so when you are not at home.

Btw, T-Mobile enabled these alerts with the latest carrier update.
 
smithrh said:
Sigh...

Got woken up this morning at 4:05 for a Flash Flood warning from the NWS.

Since I live on the top of minor rise, this isn't important to me, unlike tornados and other random things. Floods (at least around here) take a while to develop.

Now, I just got blasted with another one as the NWS decided to extend the flash flood warning to later today.

So, I turned it off. It would be great to have filtering on the iPhone side where I could tell it to be silent for some events and warn on others, but I doubt that's forthcoming.

Great feature overall but I'll be turning if off whenever we have extended periods of rain.
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I got this too this morning...

The first one I got was a few days ago tho, it was an amber alert for a stolen SUV w/ Texas plates and make + model... weird!
 
This is not Nice, This is not a good thing...

This is an annoying over used, and abused service that is not needed. It is not cool, nice, great or in any other way a good thing. It is bad enough you get the same alert on your cable shows, and radio but now to have your home go off like a Christmas tree with these annoying alerts is absurd.

Sprint has it and the only option is to turn it on or off. They insist on a high annoying volume that has no place in your life when you are driving, at work, in a meeting, etc. There is no need to scare the owner with alerts that do not affect them personally.

I can see if you are traveling outside your area and do not know the environmental dangers like a sudden tornado or hail storm (those pieces of hail in Tx are huge) it could be useful, but still give me the FULL option of volume and any other control over the message. It would be nice to have this when not near a TV or radio and a real emergency like 9/11 took place.

This is an irresponsible system that is put in place as if we are living in the 1950's cold war era with blaring sirens.

But the only option I have is on/off. So, therefore, being that the system is being abused by those that are in control of it, it is turned OFF.
 
I got the update for my iPhone 5 on AT&T a few weeks ago. Haven't had a tornado warning since then. It came a few days after an actual tornado hit my neighborhood.
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Yes, I can confirm this works on ATT too. Got a tornado warning and multiple flash flood warnings too. Sounded like the TV alerts, except it came from my pocket!

Actually very useful. One doesn't always have the TV or radio on.

The tornado warning came out just at the right time.

I don't see where I can turn it off though.
 
tiredof said:
This is an annoying over used, and abused service that is not needed. It is not cool, nice, great or in any other way a good thing. It is bad enough you get the same alert on your cable shows, and radio but now to have your home go off like a Christmas tree with these annoying alerts is absurd.

Sprint has it and the only option is to turn it on or off. They insist on a high annoying volume that has no place in your life when you are driving, at work, in a meeting, etc. There is no need to scare the owner with alerts that do not affect them personally.

I can see if you are traveling outside your area and do not know the environmental dangers like a sudden tornado or hail storm (those pieces of hail in Tx are huge) it could be useful, but still give me the FULL option of volume and any other control over the message. It would be nice to have this when not near a TV or radio and a real emergency like 9/11 took place.

This is an irresponsible system that is put in place as if we are living in the 1950's cold war era with blaring sirens.

But the only option I have is on/off. So, therefore, being that the system is being abused by those that are in control of it, it is turned OFF.
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So, you bring back a thread that is from April 18th to vent? How often has your emergency signal gone off? I've had the iPhone since 3S and last Friday was the first time I've gotten any emergency signal and it was about tornadoes. And, it only rang once. Not very "blaring" either, it was a simple ring tone.

Also, what is wrong with just the option "On/Off"? What other options would you want? Sounds like you're making a mountain out of nothing.
 
I've had my Verizon iPhone 5 since January and haven't gotten any of these. I live in Kansas, so storm and tornado alerts are pretty common. I get them from the weather channel app.
 
I received an Amber Alert on AT&T iPhone 5. First one for me since the carrier update to add this feature.
 
Thought I would for sure get a severe weather alert in the Philly area over the past few days. Many flood watches and severe storm warnings. But then again, the severe weather kinda missed our area. So maybe the alerts only come out when the threat is imminent.
 
Got one this morning on AT&T, flash flood warning from the national weather service... about half an hour AFTER the storm stopped.


Of course I was in an area where I kinda should had my phone on silent, and my phone blasts the EAS tone at full volume. Nice. :rolleyes:
 
Europa13 said:
Where is this setting? I looked for it under Settings > General > Notifications > Alerts, but I don't have that setting.

I'm using an AT&T iPhone 5.
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I'm not 100% certain that the path provided is correct.

On my ATT iPhone 5, it is

Settings->Notifications->then scroll to the bottom for "Government Alerts"

From there, you can choose to enable Emergency alerts and AMBER Alerts.
 
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