Yesterday while at the house nice and quiet with the dogs, this piercing sound starts. It sounded like a fire alarm going off.

The dogs are not happy at all with this.

So I proceed to go around the house checking fire alarms and the co alarm, nothing.

Come to find out it's the phone ???
There was not alarm set or anything. It just happened.

Any ideas guys?

Bob

I get that with certain alerts that are "pushed" to my phone: severe weather warning, amber alert, etc.

Amber Alert would be my guess. I used to get 'em on my Android phone. I turned 'em off. They're over-used and abused, IMO.

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:
Amber Alert would be my guess. I used to get 'em on my Android phone. I turned 'em off. They're over-used and abused, IMO.

Yeah, not selective enough. I get them from areas that are couple hundred miles away from where I am.

With location services available, it seems as if these could be filtered so that the raucous alarm would not be sounded unless geographically relevant.

Of course I'm asking a lot: logical action from a government bureaucracy.

Amber alert likely.

It can be disabled...

http://www.imore.com/amber-ale...-and-how-manage-them

I think you can disable the Amber alerts, but not the Weather alerts. Getting one of those at 2 am is a real shocker.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:
Amber Alert would be my guess. I used to get 'em on my Android phone. I turned 'em off. They're over-used and abused, IMO.

Yeah, not selective enough. I get them from areas that are couple hundred miles away from where I am.

With location services available, it seems as if these could be filtered so that the raucous alarm would not be sounded unless geographically relevant.

Of course I'm asking a lot: logical action from a government bureaucracy.

*nod* It's like the weather radios. They added geographical selectivity to those, too. We still get alerts that have no bearing on us whatsoever. E.g.: Smallcraft warnings for the lake over an hour east of us--at 2 o'clock in the morning.

I had the same thing happen at work last week. Have no idea what it was, but it caused a ruckus in the office.

The weirdest part is it's the first time anything like this happened.

Bob

Could you describe the ruckus?

My son's iPhone did that recently also. I don't think it was an amber alert, my phone didn't go off and I also have an iPhone. It was loud, like a smoke detector.

I had the same thing happen to me a couple of days ago. It was NOT an amber alert, I know what those sound like. It was an ad from one of the free apps I was using. This sounded identical to my smoke detector, to the point I was checking them, before my phone.

I was at a gun show when an amber alert was issued. Dozens and dozens of phones went off across the convention floor. It was a bit creepy...as if the mother ship was calling everyone home.

That was probably an "Emergency Alert", similar to but different from an Amber alert. You can toggle it off the same way.

kkina, lol, I misread your posted image...thought it said "Snitcher" right above "AmericanLawyer".....

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Originally posted by kkina:
That was probably an "Emergency Alert", similar to but different from an Amber alert. You can toggle it off the same way.

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Originally posted by lkdr1989:
kkina, lol, I misread your posted image...thought it said "Snitcher" right above "AmericanLawyer".....

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Originally posted by kkina:
That was probably an "Emergency Alert", similar to but different from an Amber alert. You can toggle it off the same way.

Hah! It's not even my iPhone.

A year ago, I was home shopping in Houston when Houston was having the flooding that made national news. I was dining after a long day of house shopping, and the dozens and dozens of alarms go off in the restaurant. It was another flash flood warning, and the alarm was on iPhones.

Check any weather app's you have too for alerts.

There was nothing open on my phone and the screen was locked at the time. I first thought it was the building fire alarm, then thought it was the low power alarm on my computer back up battery. Several people came down the hall wondering what was going on. It stopped as soon as I unlocked and opened my phone and there were no alerts, etc. Very loud and very strange.

OP, can you check your phone for alerts about the time the alarm went off? Pull down the Notification Center by swiping down from the top.