Open the Settings. Select Notifications or Apps & Notifications. Tap Wireless Emergency Alerts or Advanced and then Emergency Alerts. Toggle on and off Amber Alerts, Severe alerts and Extreme alerts.
Users can go into the emergency alerts section to enable and disable emergency alerts and also be able to choose the notification to play with sound or for it to be silent.
b) Go to notifications: Scroll down and tap on "Notifications." c) To find Government Alerts: Scroll to the bottom and locate the "Government Alerts" or "Emergency Alerts" section. d) Toggle off alerts: Toggle off the switches next to "AMBER Alerts," "Emergency Alerts," and "Public Safety Alerts."
Open Settings > Safety and emergency > Wireless emergency alerts. Turn off (slide switch to the left) AMBER alerts.
If you don't want to send your location to your emergency contacts, on your iPhone go to Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services > System Services, and tap to turn off Emergency Calls & SOS.
A restart may get you out of SOS mode. To force restart: Press and hold the Power button for about 30 seconds. For some models, like a Samsung® phone, you may also have to hold the Volume Down button at the same time, but it should only take a few seconds.
Android. Toggle off “Allow alerts”. Different versions of Android from different manufacturers may look slightly different but the menus will be roughly the same. Some other types of 4G or 5G phones may also receive the alert.
The iPhone's Do Not Disturb feature lets you silence notifications, but it does not work with Amber alerts and other emergency alerts. Because they signal an emergency that could affect your life and safety or someone else's, Do Not Disturb can't block these alerts.
In the Notifications menu, scroll right to the bottom of the page. You should see two toggles – one for Emergency Alerts and another for Severe Alerts. Simply toggle both of these off to disable government notifications on your iPhone.
If your phone supports text-to-speech, you can have the message read out loud. An emergency alert is not the same as an ordinary text message. When you receive an emergency alert, your telephone will vibrate and play a loud sound – regardless of whether you are on a call, have your phone in silent mode or similar.
This is likely sent by Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS), an alerting platform used by emergency management officials to disseminate public safety information via geographically targeted text to mobile phones.
Select Notifications or Apps & Notifications. Tap Wireless Emergency Alerts or Advanced and then Emergency Alerts. Toggle on and off Amber Alerts, Severe alerts and Extreme alerts.
In the Settings - Notification Permissions window, and if any websites are listed, click on the Remove All Websites button, then select the Block new requests asking to allow notifications option and click on the Save Changes button.
Turn Emergency SOS off
Open your phone's Settings app. Emergency SOS. Under "How it works," tap the Settings icon. Tap Turn off Emergency SOS.
The most common reason for your iPhone being in SOS mode is accidental activation. Pressing the side button along with one of the volume buttons for too long can trigger this feature, which is easy to do if you're holding your phone tightly or trying to adjust its position.
Here are a few possible reasons your iPhone might get stuck on SOS. You accidentally brought up the power off/Emergency SOS screen by pressing and holding either the Volume button and the Side button at the same time for two seconds. Your iPhone has a software glitch. Your network settings are incorrect.