U.S. iPhone Users to Receive Emergency Test Alert Today

[cocky jeremy]

Ignorance is bliss. I wonder how many lives could have been saved in Maui had their emergency notification worked.

I don't live there, so it doesn't really apply to me. Not too many big waves hitting Columbus, Ohio.

 

[MrENGLISH]

I don't live there, so it doesn't really apply to me. Not too many big waves hitting Columbus, Ohio.

You proved my point. They weren't hit by a big wave or lava or whatever else you are assuming would only apply to Hawaii.

 

[cocky jeremy]

You proved my point. They weren't hit by a big wave or lava or whatever else you are assuming would only apply to Hawaii.

If Columbus is on fire, I'll see it. I don't need loud obnoxious notifications to tell me.

 

[redbeard331]

Having lived through cv insanity -- "Stay away from people!", "Don't go outside!", "Cover the only two sets of breathing holes you have!", "It's just three weeks to 'flatten the curve'!", etc., I refuse to let the feds blast my phone with this stupidity.

If there is an emergency that is going to affect me, I'm going to know about it without this sort of Big Brother idiocy.

I’ve heard you should be burying your phone at least 2 feet in dirt to protect you from the radiation the lizard world order will be releasing on you through your phone just to be safe!!

 

[monokakata]

I’ve heard you should be burying your phone at least 2 feet in dirt to protect you from the radiation the lizard world order will be releasing on you through your phone just to be safe!!

That won't work unless the dirt is infused with mica.

 

[redbeard331]

That won't work unless the dirt is infused with mica.

Good looking out for them, hopefully they can get it done before the alert goes out!

 

[Chuckeee]

Brains

 

[Makayla]

Mine just sounded off.

 

[tonyr6]

My phone not iPhone but Android went off twice at 2:18 pm and 2:20 pm. I thought it only supposed to go off once.

 

[dk001]

This was interesting.
Four phones - S23 Ultra, 13 ProMax, Nothing 2, ThinkPhone

Got alerts on all BUT.....

S23U, 13PM, and N2 all gave me a National Alert and the bloody tone.
Thinkphone gave me a Presidential Alert and tone but in Spanish. Not English.

Update: got a follow-up Presidential Alert in Spanish on my Thinkphone.

Power button on all killed the tone.

 

[midkay]

Mine just happened. I'm pretty impressed actually, my watch & phone both sounded very loudly and vibrated more intensely than I've ever felt before. In an emergency situation, this would be very effective. No way you could sleep through or otherwise miss that.

 

[dk001]

Great, another thing I have to turn off.

I have all alerts disabled on my 13 ProMax and S23 Ultra and I still got the alert.

 

[dk001]

Important: Also, to turn it off you have to turn on Airplane Mode, it will play even if your phone is in DND or goverment alerts are off.

My Nothing 2 has no SIM and it still got the alert. It was connected to WiFi.

 

[DesignTime]

So I guess these setting do nothing! The US government just proved they can override any setting on your device. Spyware!!!

 

[onenorth]

MacRumors updated the story to say that today's test cannot be disabled. I had test alerts turned off.

I still got the alert on my phone but not on my S9 watch.

 

[JosephAW]

What ticks me off is I have all the settings turned off and I'm trying to rest and it still comes through, Apple needs to get on the ball and when we turn it off it stays off.

 

[Belisama]

Success 🙌
My cat and my dog need to recover. Their (long) nap was interrupted by the WEA.

 

[NeoSe7en]

Holy F*** that was annoying. Did they really need to make it speaker blowout loud?

 

[smithrh]

The settings work.

HOWEVER, for this particular message type, there is no opting out.

 

[dk001]

I wonder what people did with their cars... parked them on the sidewalks?

Hmmm... My other half is likely on lunch and I wonder if that played through all 12 car speakers courtesy of Android Auto ...

 

[skardvin]

Good lord, I got the notification twice. 7 minutes apart. The second really got me bad. Why the hell did I get it twice?!?!

 

[vegetassj4]

My first post-alert selfie, looks like the alert changed the white balance in the Photos App or something:

 

[SIGSEGV1]

English and Spanish, regardless of language settings

 

[smorrissey]

Tengo Miedo!

 

[JosephAW]

I noticed that my iPad cellular did not get any text message but my iPhone 6 which has no cellular carrier did receive a message. I should've flipped open my 3G flip phone and see if that would've received a message.