I hope this fits here! If not, feel free to move it wherever. There's going to be a test of the emergency alarm system tomorrow in the US. Which means a LOT of screeching phones and TVs and...
I hope this fits here! If not, feel free to move it wherever. There's going to be a test of the emergency alarm system tomorrow in the US. Which means a LOT of screeching phones and TVs and radios.
I'm currently trying to spread awareness because there are people with secret phones due to abusive situations. It's not common but this test could lead to them being discovered, and could be the literal difference between life and death. The general advice I've seen floating around is to power off those phones now, and only turn them back on when you know you're alone and safe in case the alarm still goes off.
You can disable these alerts on iOS at the very bottom of the notifications settings page (below all the apps). Not sure about Android, but I'd be surprised if it wasn't an option there as well....
You can disable these alerts on iOS at the very bottom of the notifications settings page (below all the apps). Not sure about Android, but I'd be surprised if it wasn't an option there as well.
In your scenario the person may hear about this one, but disabling them prevents it from being an issue when a real alert goes off.
Not disagreeing that disabling for a test is a good idea, though in a real alert situation it well could be life or death outside the scope of the abuse.
Not disagreeing that disabling for a test is a good idea, though in a real alert situation it well could be life or death outside the scope of the abuse.
I guess I'll find out tomorrow, but I have an Android and I have every single alert disabled that can be, the only one I remember that can't is the Presidential one or whatever it's called....
I guess I'll find out tomorrow, but I have an Android and I have every single alert disabled that can be, the only one I remember that can't is the Presidential one or whatever it's called.
Apparently this national alert is what I initially knew as the presidential alert. Perhaps it was expanded at some point, because it now encompasses FEMA. On my Android phone, it no longer says presidential alert (which I'm positive at some point in the past it did, and it was the only one not capable of being disabled) and now says national alerts (no mention of presidential) and cannot be disabled.
I hope this fits here! If not, feel free to move it wherever. There's going to be a test of the emergency alarm system tomorrow in the US. Which means a LOT of screeching phones and TVs and radios.
I'm currently trying to spread awareness because there are people with secret phones due to abusive situations. It's not common but this test could lead to them being discovered, and could be the literal difference between life and death. The general advice I've seen floating around is to power off those phones now, and only turn them back on when you know you're alone and safe in case the alarm still goes off.
You can disable these alerts on iOS at the very bottom of the notifications settings page (below all the apps). Not sure about Android, but I'd be surprised if it wasn't an option there as well.
In your scenario the person may hear about this one, but disabling them prevents it from being an issue when a real alert goes off.
Not disagreeing that disabling for a test is a good idea, though in a real alert situation it well could be life or death outside the scope of the abuse.
I guess I'll find out tomorrow, but I have an Android and I have every single alert disabled that can be, the only one I remember that can't is the Presidential one or whatever it's called.
Apparently this national alert is what I initially knew as the presidential alert. Perhaps it was expanded at some point, because it now encompasses FEMA. On my Android phone, it no longer says presidential alert (which I'm positive at some point in the past it did, and it was the only one not capable of being disabled) and now says national alerts (no mention of presidential) and cannot be disabled.