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Your iPhone will make a ‘special sound’ on Oct 4

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October 04, 2023, 01:20 PM
rduckwor
Your iPhone will make a ‘special sound’ on Oct 4
Two minutes early here in my neck of the woods. Guess .gov can't tell time.

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October 04, 2023, 01:20 PM
911Boss
Evidently our Overlords will not allow us to opt out... Roll Eyes





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October 04, 2023, 01:21 PM
dar185
quote:
Originally posted by rduckwor:
Two minutes early here in my neck of the woods. Guess .gov can't tell time.

RMD


Same



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October 04, 2023, 01:22 PM
Mustang-PaPa
Wtf. Mine went off and I had everything turned off.
Oh now the tv is going off.

Phone was two mins early and the tv went off on time.
October 04, 2023, 01:22 PM
rainman64
I thought I had my Android disabled

But NOOOOOOOOO

I get both the English and Spanish

Jeez


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October 04, 2023, 01:23 PM
kkina
Yeppers, 2 minutes early. I guess that's better than 2 minutes late.

People who said everything was turned off. Just side button switched off, or device fully powered down?


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October 04, 2023, 01:25 PM
Ripley
It's gone on and off four times in five minutes here.

**edit** five times in seven minutes.
**edit** six times, ten minutes.
**edit** 7/11
8/13
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October 04, 2023, 01:26 PM
SFCUSARET
Well.......That was anticlimatic


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October 04, 2023, 01:26 PM
Johnny 3eagles
Me once, 2 minutes early.

My wife's phone. 3 times so far. Won't go away. The alert, not my wife




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October 04, 2023, 01:26 PM
a1abdj
My phone went off today, but my work truck radio went off yesterday complete with "EMERGENCY" screen popping up


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October 04, 2023, 01:29 PM
billpocz
quote:
Originally posted by SFCUSARET:
Well.......That was anticlimatic


This!!!



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October 04, 2023, 01:34 PM
2BobTanner
As of this writing, only received the WARNING over the TV (satellite connection). Haven’t received anything else, over my iPad (which I’m currently using), nor over my hard-wire landline phone, nor my weather alert monitor. Since the alert was for a 1/2 hour duration, guess we’ll see if other media activations happen within that time.

What’s the flight time for missiles from Russia, 1/2 hour?


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October 04, 2023, 01:35 PM
220-9er
A big nothing. I just clicked the button on the right side of my phone, the one that would send a call to voicemail, and the noise stopped.
They do this every few years and the news made it sound like this one was something extra special. I guess not.
Another made up "breaking news" type non-event.


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October 04, 2023, 01:46 PM
selogic
Phone went off . As soon as I started to put the passcode in , it stopped . TV alerted for about 4 seconds , if that .
October 04, 2023, 01:47 PM
Rightwire
quote:
Originally posted by SFCUSARET:
Well.......That was anticlimatic


Understatement of the week.... clicked ok and it was done. Only my phone, nothing on laptop.

Although... suddenly... havvvveeee... crrraaavvviiinng...

.... foooooooor...


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October 04, 2023, 01:57 PM
FenderBender
quote:
Originally posted by FenderBender:
It's my understanding that the big national alerts cannot be turned off, by law imposed on the mobile carriers.


Like I said....


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October 04, 2023, 02:01 PM
nhtagmember
ok, so the carriers have to send it

but as a private user, and the one who pays the bills, I said I don't want it

so why did I get it

had all my alerts turned off - don't give a flying fuck about amber alerts and all that horseshit

so why do I not have control over a device that I've paid for
October 04, 2023, 02:03 PM
FenderBender
quote:
Originally posted by nhtagmember:
ok, so the carriers have to send it

but as a private user, and the one who pays the bills, I said I don't want it

so why did I get it

had all my alerts turned off - don't give a flying fuck about amber alerts and all that horseshit

so why do I not have control over a device that I've paid for


Do you own a bump stock?


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October 04, 2023, 02:06 PM
Gibb
quote:
Originally posted by nhtagmember:
ok, so the carriers have to send it

but as a private user, and the one who pays the bills, I said I don't want it

so why did I get it

had all my alerts turned off - don't give a flying fuck about amber alerts and all that horseshit

so why do I not have control over a device that I've paid for


Because the .gov controls the airwaves the carriers use, and forced them to push it (much like they do with the TV providers).
The .gov is finally wise to the fact that not as many people listen to radio or watch live TV anymore, so they needed a new way to push national alerts. This is the new way.



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October 04, 2023, 02:07 PM
oddball
quote:
Originally posted by konata88:
WTF - I disabled all the notifications and it still came through. And fucking loud.

For fuck's sake.


Same.

And I have a dumb phone, no smartphone, no data, no wifi. Assholes.


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