Emergency Alert on Android: Everything to Know

Android emergency alerts are a headache to everyone as they can startle or even ruin some moments. The alerts are bad enough during the day, but the situation worsens during the night.

The United States has a deal with the federal government to come up with a method to send notification on your Android phones to inform you about dangerous weather, grave national important matters, and a missing person. The main point of this information believes that it can save you or others in many ways.

Here is everything you need to know about the emergency alerts on Android:

How many types of the emergency alert are there?

There are three types of emergency alerts that you can receive on your Android smartphone. In some devices, there are four emergency alerts. Here are the four emergency alerts:

1) Extreme threats: This threat is classified to your property and life, like a tsunami, hurricane, or an impending catastrophic climate event.

2) Severe threats: Less severe than dangerous threats, these threads are maybe the same types of situations, but on a small scale, so you don’t need to have on the hill and pack in the home or car.

3) AMBER alerts: This is a special alert that aimed to find missing children. Technically, AMBER alerts stand for the (America’s Missing Broadcaster Emergency Response). But it names as an Amber Hagerman, a nine-year-old child who was kidnapped and murdered in the year 1996. AMBER alert can show up be a bit cryptic, and allow you the location of the alert. A car license plate number and also makes a model and color of the vehicle.

4) Presidential alerts: This alert will frequently fall into the dangerous threats, and it is issued directly by the president of the United States (US), and cannot be turned off from your Android smartphone.

What does an AMBER alert Sound?

It is annoying and loud, particularly if you are using a phone that has a good speaker, but it will seize your attention when you are with several people who all have their smartphone. You can also see your phones vibrating when an alert arrives on your Android smartphone.

How to turn off emergency alert

• Disabling all alerts
• Disabling signal alerts
• Disabling from message application
• Disabling alert from an emergency alert application

1) Disabling all alerts

If you don’t want to receive any notification about an emergency situation, then you only need to disable all the alerts from your device.

Here are the steps on how to disable all alerts from your Android Smartphone:

1. Launch your phone’s settings.
2. Scroll down and search more options
3. Locate the “Emergency Broadcasts” option, mostly it’s found in the bottom.
4. Find the option “Turn on Notification” and tap on it to disable this option top properly disable these alerts.

2) Disabling signal alerts

There are some alerts that you want to keep up to date in your phones, but some alarm you wish to disable from your Android smartphone. For Example, you want to AMBER alerts keep on but another alert off, then you can do this with disabling individual alert.

Here are the steps on how to disable signal alert:

1. Launch your phone’s settings.
2. Scroll down and search more options
3. Locate the “Emergency Broadcasts” option, mostly it’s found in the bottom. Here you need to check the option that you have turned off.
4. By default, the tick boxes to emergency alerts are automatically checked. That means you can get the emergency alert.
5. You need to uncheck those boxes whose alerts you don’t want to get.

3) Disabling from message application

Here are the steps on how to disable alerts form message application:

1. Open Message application.
2. Starting from where all the message threads are listed.
3. Locate the Menu; this is shown as three-dot on the top left corner of the screen.
4. After tapping on choose settings.
5. Select “Emergency Alerts.”
6. Uncheck the box that alerts you don’t want to disable. Remember one thing you can disable another alert, but you can’t disable the Presidential Alert.

4) Disabling alert from an emergency alert application

Some Android phones have a separate Emergency alert application. If you are using an emergency application on your Android phones, then you can go with the given method.

Here are the steps on disabling alert from an emergency alert application

1. In the Home screen, you need to tap the application slider to see the emergency alert application.
2. Launch the application “Emergency App.”
3. Select “Menu” and then visit “Settings.”
4. Select “Receive Alerts” for emergency notification application.
5. Uncheck the box that you don’t want to receive alerts on your Android phones.

Lucia Mandela is a Microsoft Office expert and has been working in the technical industry since 2002. As a technical expert, Lucia has written technical blogs, manuals, white papers, and reviews for many websites such as office.com/setup.

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