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MindhunterWho is amber ? And why does him going missing warrant an alert ?
I think in the US there are alerts (called amber alerts) for when people go missing in the hopes of increasing the chance of finding the person by raising awareness.
And you can’t opt out ??? Weird
There is an emergency function in all mobile phones that overrides everything else and blasts a loud sound and takes over the whole screen. It is there for emergencies, like when the people in Hawaii got told that the apocalypse has come by accident. In the NL you get one per month when they check the air raid alert sirens. The US uses them for alerts for missing children.
Your phone would also do it if you are in the area, no matter where you bought it or your carrier.
JackGreenEarthOk, but how do you disable it? Is it an Android setting, something I can do over adb, do I have to root the device, install a custom ROM, or disable part of the hardware?
h0usewaifuIt’s an Android setting. Assuming you’re in the US, you can disable all warning channels (including Amber alerts) except the National one, which I believe has to be on by law, but is only supposed to be used in apocalypse level emergencies. The Hawaii thing was triggered by accident, iirc.
On my S24, it’s in Settings > Safety and Emergency > Wireless Emergency Alerts.
I don’t know if it’s even possible to disable the National warnings, but you’d likely have to use adb or root your phone to do it.
Thanks, but I’m in the UK, where only the national ones are ever used. I don’t want to disable it, because I think it’s useful, but I want control over my device, so I want to be making the choice to keep it enabled, if you know what I mean.
Oh neat, my phone has a function to detect tracking devices.
We live in hell.