Why didn't I receive an Amber Alert?

I see no toggle for an Amber Alert or Government Alert notifications under Notifications with my iPhone 4S running iOS 6.

Does your iPhone include such an option under Notifications?

The Amber Alert toggle is available on my iPhone 5 using iOS6 and I have it turned on.

I'm not sure why you didn't receive an Amber Alert because your iPhone has the new Goverment Alerts.

In reference to Allan not seeing one on his phone, here is what MacWorld just reported on 9/20/12:

"Some users also get new settings in the Notifications screen—at the bottom, grouped under Government Alerts—for enabling or disabling AMBER Alerts and Emergency Alerts. In our testing in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sprint and Verizon users see these settings, while AT&T users do not. However, the availability of these settings also appear to depend on your location: Responses to an informal poll of Twitter users indicate that Verizon users in some parts of the country get the settings, but those in other locations do not." (http://www.macworld.com/article/2010181/hands-on-with-ios-6-settings.html)

Here is a website link I think will help

Answer your question best

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2012/12/18/amber-alert-on-iphone-is-nothing-to-be-a larmed-by/

But:

You only receive the amber alert -

your phone will go off making an

annoying noise if the alert is in

your area -if your number is local to

Where the incident occurred

I hope this helps

Don't know if this is old news for you, but I found this today. I had the same issue as an Amber Alert was issued in Minneapolis

http://support.verizonwireless.com/faqs/Company%20Information/faq_amber_alert.ht ml

I'm in the Minneapolis area too. I was driving my fiance to her class just outside of Saint Paul, MN, when her iPhone received the amber alert yesterday. However, mine did not. They are both configured the same.

I'm going to keep reading to see if I can figure out why one would receive the alert, and not the other.

Awesome feature by the way! I was on the look out for our entire drive on I-90.

**Update - In reviewing Sprints policy, I realized that I have a phone number for the Goodhue County area, while she has a phone number for the Dakota County area. That is why she received the amber alert, and I did not.

FWIW, I have an AT&T 4S with iOS6 and do not have Government Alerts under Notifications. Wish I did though.

I live in the Mpls area, and have Sprint as my carrier but did not recieve the alert on my iPhone 4 runing iOS 6.1.2. I do not have the government notification feature on my phone. What gives?

My coworker on the other hand who also has Sprint did get the notification on her Galaxy phone. So clearly Sprint is supporting it in my area.

On Sprint it's the 4s and newer that supports WEA. I was in Minnetonka and received the AMBER alert on my Sprint iPhone 4s.

Thanks for the reply!

Looks like the latest Carrier Settings update for AT&T (AT&T 14.0 released on 6/14) now enables those options for AT&T users as well

Received my first alert today, but I can't access it to see complete message?

Phone started howling like a banshee, found the two switches big brother installed on my phone and turned it off. What a truly dreadful "feature."

Your cell phone carrier installed it, not sure if you consider them "big brother". Yes, it is truly dreadful to try to get people to help locate missing children who could be in moral danger, etc. What a dreadful person.

thats because these alerts are crap...they are as "useful" as the TSA colored signs !