Amber Alert wakes many from sleep
Like many others, I was torn out of a lovely sleep Tuesday morning by an Amber Alert about a kidnapping. The teenaged girl has been found safe although this brief item doesn’t reveal whether the alert was instrumental in finding her.
Update: As it turns out, the young woman was kidnapped by her own brothers. Three men will be seen in court Tuesday evening and there may be news Wednesday about the charges.
EmilyG 16:05 on 2021-07-27 Permalink
People being woken up, or annoyed, by Amber Alerts is almost starting to be a bigger story than people going missing.
Ephrami 16:41 on 2021-07-27 Permalink
My phone is on DND from 10PM to 8AM. I didn’t hear it at all. But it was on my screen when I woke up.
JoeNotCharles 18:02 on 2021-07-27 Permalink
I supposedly have all levels of alert except “Extreme Alert” turned off on my phone, but I still got this. Does anyone else have Amber Alerts disabled, and did this still arrive? Wondering whether the settings on my phone are buggy, or if the SPVM are using the “Extreme” setting on their alerts.
Kevin 20:50 on 2021-07-27 Permalink
Every phone in my household went off at 6:20, including the ones on DND
Joey 09:11 on 2021-07-28 Permalink
I thought the point of Amber Alerts was that they couldn’t be disabled? iPhones have an optional setting to disable government alerts, but I suspect that the setting itself is disabled in Canada (it’s missing from my phone, which is affiliated with Fido).
@Ephraim, the alert buzzed loud and clear despite DND being active…
Kate 10:34 on 2021-07-28 Permalink
I find on my iphone there’s DND, and there’s also turning it to silent. The two things intersect but are not the same, and putting it on DND doesn’t necessarily silence it, or vice versa.
I suspect Ephraim’s phone was on both DND and silent, whereas the rest of you had only one of those things in effect.
Joey 12:47 on 2021-07-28 Permalink
@Kate my phone is always on silent. I think the point of gov’t-issued emergency alerts is that they override the phone’s ability not to alert you. Probably the only way to avoid them is to turn off your data and wifi.
GC 14:01 on 2021-07-28 Permalink
I had my phone actually turned off. The first I heard of it was when they said on the radio that the alert was over. I certainly wouldn’t have expected the phone to turn itself on, but I would have guessed it would arrive once I booted it up, like SMS. I guess that’s not the case.