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    Alerts on your phone, possible to shut off?

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

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    You talking about the Amber alerts or just plain old push notifications?
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    Assuming your talking about the amber/emergency alerts I don’t think there’s a way to disable it.
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    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?

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by True Blue View Post
    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.

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    I have two phones, one work and one personal, neither got these amber updates yesterday, but my other family phones did.

    Just noticed on the personal android, I had the broadcast messages set to off.

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    I always keep my iPhone on silent anyway. When the alert came threw it only vibrates.

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