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Emergency Alerts

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Opting out of emergency alerts

Emergency alerts contain life-saving information and should be kept switched on for your own safety.

You can opt out of emergency alerts. For example, victims of domestic abuse with a concealed phone may find it appropriate to turn off alerts.

How you opt out depends on your device, if you still get alerts after opting out, contact your device manufacturer for help.

There’s a different way to opt out of operator test alerts.

iPhones and Android phones

To opt out:

  1. Search your settings for ‘emergency alerts’.
  2. Turn off ‘severe alerts’ and ‘extreme alerts’.

Other mobile phones and tablets

Depending on the manufacturer and software version of your phone, emergency alerts settings may be called different names, such as ‘wireless emergency alerts’ or ‘emergency broadcasts’.

The settings can usually be found in one of the following ways. Go to:

  • ‘message’, then ‘message settings, then ‘wireless emergency alerts’, then ‘alert’
  • ‘settings’, then ‘sounds’, then ‘advanced’, then ‘emergency broadcasts’
  • ‘settings’, then ‘general settings’, then ‘emergency alerts’

Then turn off ‘severe alerts’, ‘extreme alerts’ and ‘test alerts’.