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U.S. iPhone Users to Receive Emergency Test Alert Today
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Did you have to keep airplane mode on for a period of time after :20?Nope. Airplane mode is doing the job as well.
Serious Question:
Have people really not recieved alerts like this on their phone before? I have been getting at least Severe Weather alerts for years, and I believe Amber Alerts.
Have people really not recieved alerts like this on their phone before? I have been getting at least Severe Weather alerts for years, and I believe Amber Alerts.
Keeping it on longer. I don't want to hear that BS. lol.
Ask Hawaii, they got a message like that a few years ago
Most of them you can turn off. This should be the same, but it's not for some stupid reason.
Sure but weather alerts are all over the place, on TV and regular radio and such in high Tornado areas, not to mention the sirens in tornado areas. Do we need a cell override?
Well...that was annoying. Thankfully I was wearing AirPods Max throughout the entire thing, which isolated it to just one alert, and kept it quiet. Neato.
And y'all said I was gonna blow out my ears. 😂
And y'all said I was gonna blow out my ears. 😂
Airplane mode would get rid of it. Mine has been in airplane mode since 2 PM Eastern Time and haven't heard a sound.
It wasn’t bad. I was listening to a podcast and it was just a vibration that lasted for a second.
It was an overrated test.
It was an overrated test.
You realize the entire point of this is to break through everything, right? If there was a critical alert it would be ridiculous to miss it due to having your phone on do not disturb. Besides the other test in 2020, I've only had this go off maybe 2-3 times in my life, and it was when my town was in the direct path of tornadoes.
Opportune time for... what?Let's announce to all our enemies what time we're sending a test alert to everyone so that it is the opportune time for them.
Just because you personally lack the understanding of why this is so does not make it stupid.
It's not an SMS. It's an entirely separate notification channel.
Those you can turn off (and I have it turned off since getting an amber alert at 3 AM once). You can't turn off today's alert -- by act of Congress. (other than shut down your phone or use airplane mode). This is a "special" alert that they don't allow the cell phone companies to allow users to be able to turn off while your phone is on.
I am now filled with nanobots and wokeness. H E L P M eee eeeee e e eeeeeeeee
I want to know how loud it was in places with a dense amount of people
It is stupid. If I don't want your notification, don't send it. It's as simple as that. I don't care what kind of warning it could be giving if it were real.
