Alerts on your phone, possible to shut off?

[ZR]

Galaxy S7 on Fido, anyone found a work around to shut alerts off?

[Laffs]

You talking about the Amber alerts or just plain old push notifications?

[hsousa88]

Assuming your talking about the amber/emergency alerts I don’t think there’s a way to disable it.

[stangstevers]

If it helps people, I don't see too much of an issue. But once crashes start happening because of this, can we collectively sue the government?

[ZR]

Yes amber alerts.
Must be a way or perhaps some phones are not geared to accept. In line ordering lunch, out of a solid line of peeps only mine and one other persons received it.

[True Blue]

Yes you can turn off the Amber alert alarm and/or vibration.

I found how to do it yesterday. Android based phones, click on text message icon, go into your message settings, scroll for emergency alerts, click to disable alarm and/or vibration. Now you'll only receive a displayed message, nothing else.

[RedSN]

Yes you can turn off the Amber alert alarm and/or vibration.

Interesting to see if that works because I read up on this yesterday.
From what I understand, the way that Alert Ready operates (in the States anyway) is there are 3 levels of alerts: amber alerts, extreme threats and severe threats, presidential alerts. You can modify or disable the first two, but you can't disable "presidential alerts". Here in Canada, the wonderful CRTC set the level for ALL alerts as "presidential", so you can't disable it.

https://www.alertready.ca/

[True Blue]

Interesting to see if that works because I read up on this yesterday.
From what I understand, the way that Alert Ready operates (in the States anyway) is there are 3 levels of alerts: amber alerts, extreme threats and severe threats, presidential alerts. You can modify or disable the first two, but you can't disable "presidential alerts". Here in Canada, the wonderful CRTC set the level for ALL alerts as "presidential", so you can't disable it.

https://www.alertready.ca/

As you mentioned I've noticed those options on my friend's Galaxy S7. With my phone I'm able to turn off the emergency alert broadcasts, alarm sound and vibrate. Guess we'll see when the next Amber alert happens. What I've been reading a lot of people are pissed as to how the alert was handled yesterday.

[RedSN]

a lot of people are pissed as to how the alert was handled yesterday.

It was a total fail. We were promised that the alert system would be regional (i.e. broadcast to only the people in the region affected by the emergency). We were promised that it would only be used for real emergencies (sorry if I sound insensitive, but this was NOT an emergency). And why the hell were there three emergency alerts? An alert to tell you the alert is no longer an alert? A second french alert? Each with the same panic alert level as an imminent nuclear attack!? FAIL

[ZR]

You Sir are a rock star. Phoned Fido, told there is no way to shut off, found menu you suggested n turned off.