Amber Alert on Cell

Same thing happened to me. I was meeting with my boss and I had my phone on the desk. I usually keep it on vibrate/silent and it was going crazy.

Do you have an iPhone? That's what I have.

 

I have an Android and the same thing happened to me.

I figured this was normal for Iphone/Android users( I just moved to the Android world this summer ) so I thought oh ok, interesting. Could be dangerous when people are on the road, etc.

 

Yeah I had to turn that setting off. Had it scream at me twice at work last year.

 

Happened to a lot of people today. Both iPhones and Android.

 

There was some iOS update a few months back if I recall.

 

It's happened to me at 6 in the morning before. The thing was so loud it woke me up.

 

Ive been getting these for awhile now. I also get severe weather alerts. Kinda annoying.

 

Happened to me also but I can't bring myself to turn it off. Someone is missing a child and if I can help prevent some sick evil **** from raping, torturing, suffocating and dismembering a kid then I'm down.

 

aliens trying to gain access to the main frame.

 

The kid was found safe and father is in custody.

 

dang it. this post made my turn the feature back on.

 

I have been laughing at my friends for getting them the past couple of months, but TODAY, I finally got one while at work. Scared the heck out of me too. Our office was quiet and all of a sudden 2 or 3 amber alert tones started going off. We all got one

 

Mine went off months ago while I was driving. I didn't know the volume on my phone could even go as loud as it did when the amber alert went off, so my first thought was that it was my car alerting me it was having a meltdown. Really can be a dangerous distraction on the road. I was in straight panic not knowing what was going on. How about a press release before they released that new feature?
Turned it off in my settings later.

 

I usually only get a notification when I open the weather app..besides that, no.

 

Thank god I didn't have class today, this thing rang so loudly..

 

I think it's based on phone service. Like sprint a few months back just went crazy with this for everyone at work. Haven't gotten many since. They must have gotten complaints. It's a good idea in theory. In practice....not so much