They’re missing. Amber alerts and other emergency notifications are gone. The option isn’t there. They just disappeared. Were they moved a different location and not under notifications any longer?
why would this deliberately be removed?
iPhone 11, iOS 14
I’m running 14.3 on my iPhone 11 Pro. When I look in notifications and go to the bottom I see the government alerts. You may wanna try and reset all settings first. This will replace the background picture, have to set up Apple Pay and WiFi and Bluetooth. But data will stay there. If that doesn’t work, back up the phone and restore to factory settings using a computer. Set it up as new first. If they are there then put the back up back on the phone. If it’s missing after the back up then it’s a corrupted file in that back up.
Arek469 wrote:
Yet it happened to my phone within 48hrs. So what was debunked? The options to turn it on or off was on my phone Friday. Yet today it’s missing. Are you able to explain what did that? Did someone hack my phone? Hmmm? If you can explain how someone could remove those options from my phone without being able to touch my phone?
We are volunteers on this user to user only forum. We don't owe you ANY explanations at all. We have tried to tell you your cellular provider provides the alerts. You can keep wasting your time trying to lay the blame on Apple, but that's a complete waste of your and quite frankly now, our time.
Contact your cellular provider or stop asking why you don't have these alerts anymore. We can't help you.
Also note from CRTC regarding emergency alerts:
Can I choose which way an emergency alert is sent to me?
No. Regulations mandated by the CRTC require all commercial, campus, community and Indigenous radio and television broadcasters, cable, satellite and IPTV providers, as well as wireless service providers to distribute emergency alerts.
There is no sign-up or opt-in required. Emergency alerts will be automatically sent through these broadcast channels, and to compatible wireless devices.
You cannot opt out of receiving threat-to-life emergency alerts. This is for your safety.
All iPhones support government alerts in countries where they are offered. In some countries you can choose to disable them (like the US). In other countries you cannot disable them (like Canada). If your phone is provisioned by a carrier in a country that does not permit you to disable them you won’t see switches to turn them off, but your phone will still receive and display the alerts.
Since those are a cellular carrier feature, you may wish to contact them to verify they were actually sent.
What you need to find out is if your cellular provider also broadcast these alerts. They may not have. And as has been stated a few times, Amber Alerts are sent via the cellular providers.
Note even if they wanted to remove them, Wireless Emergency Alerts are a carrier feature.
You can read more about the WARN act that created Wireless Emergency Alerts here:
Arek469 wrote:
Yet it happened to my phone within 48hrs. So what was debunked? The options to turn it on or off was on my phone Friday. Yet today it’s missing. Are you able to explain what did that? Did someone hack my phone? Hmmm? If you can explain how someone could remove those options from my phone without being able to touch my phone?
Start by contact your carrier.
I'm not going to explain anything to you. Chances are you're nothing but a troll sent here to propagate the lie that it was being removed to begin with.
Do some basic troubleshooting on your own. Reboot your phone.
Reset the network settings.
Restore ios
If none of those work, and you still actually have an issue, make an appointment at the Genius Bar... of course, this is all assuming you actually contacted your cellular carrier first and made sure it's nota problem on their end.
From the limited research I just did, it appears one cannot disable Emergency alerts in Canada. So if that is true and the OP is in Canada, why would there be anyplace to turn on or off something which can't be turned off to begin with?
It is not there anymore. Apple removed it!
The iPad has never had the ability to show Emergency Alerts.
Who is your cellular carrier?
Does your old SE have a SIM for a Canadian carrier or a US one?
I just checked my iPad which I had updated earlier this week to 14.3. Earlier this week the emergency alerts were there. Last night there was an auto update and now I do not have the emergency alert section at all.
I don’t understand it. I had updated my phone earlier this week and there was no update last night and I still have the emergency alerts.
Mypepper wrote:
I did not do the update on my iPad and do not have the alert system available. Is there any way it can be added?
https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/0ac06974-a199-4710-b388-d00c88e286cb
No. Because iPad is NOT a cell phone and Emergency alerts have NEVER been available on iPad.
iOS 14.3 missing amber alerts and emergency notifications.
