That's four times my phone has gone crazy in the last few minutes, presumably to update me on the latest news regarding someone's custody dispute. I don't even read past "Amber Alert" anymore.
Edit: Make that five.
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It's become muscle memory to turn my ringer off before going to bed because of this.
Interestingly this relatively small change a few years ago, was one of the early warning signs for me that our government was going to take away our choice and autonomy completely, in everything. My intuition was correct.
Compulsory Ambert Alerts from the Borg was indeed a canary in a coal mine.
I turn my phone off entirely at night...
You should be able to kill it on your phone settings. Turn off emergency alerts
Worse case turn off lte
Not sure where you're located but the point of the post is on Canadian carriers the phone settings are disabled or ignored - you cannot opt out via the settings. It's annoying as fuck.
The menu is now missing on my iPhone…
Woke me up in the middle of the night.
Even still, my vote goes to whichever political party promises to do away with stupid restrictions, except for Ontario PC. Out of an abundance of caution, I will not vote Ontario PC unless Doug Ford resigns as leader.
Amber Alerts on their own have a nearly 0% success rate on finding children.
It's old fashioned police work that find's these kids 99% of the time.
FRIG OFF WITH THE CHILD ABDUCTIONS MIRIAM!!!
You can turn it off in phone settings or opt out.
No need to be rooted on an Android device, you just need the android platform tools on your computer and a USB cable to connect the phone. If you have some basic knowledge of a Windows command prompt you can browse to the Android Platform Tools folder and type these 2 commands in
I factory reset my phone and forgot to run these commands so I got woken up by 2 of the alerts so I ran them first thing this morning. I take it there's been more alerts this morning?
Airplane mode if you don't have control over your device....
Just turn off lte
...I just happen to own a phone that doesn't support the emergency alert system.
I put my phone on do not disturb every night and I have never gotten an amber alert. Even during the day when do not disturb is off, my phone has never made that crazy amber alert sound. Meh
It is. We call people and get shit done immediately rather than hiding behind emails and asking for read receipts like a faggot