Emergency alerts

I was under the impression that the alert feature you're looking for was for earthquake alerts in Japan. I could be wrong

Which cell carrier are you with?

Madmak78 wrote:

I have iPhone 4, updated to iOS6.0.1, which is supposed to support "gov't alerts" via toggles under notifications

From the User's Guide, page 133:

Show government alerts in Notification Center: Choose the alerts you want to see from the Government Alerts list. Government alerts are not available in all areas, vary by carrier and iPhone model, and may not work under all conditions. For example, in the United States, iPhone 4S or later can receive presidential alerts and you can turn AMBER and Emergency Alerts (which includes both Severe and Extreme Imminent Threat alerts) on or off. In Japan, iPhone 4 or later can receive Emergency Earthquake Alerts from the Japan Meteorological Agency.

In other words, the iPhone 4 is not supported for AMBER/Emergency Alerts in the US.

Wrong...

What was he wrong about on Dec. 30, 2012?

He wasn't wrong on Dec 30, 2012.

"In other words, the iPhone 4 is not supported for AMBER/Emergency Alerts in the US."

It is now... If you're with AT&T...

So on Dec. 30th he was correct therefore your first post here was wrong.

Right...

trebber wrote:

He wasn't wrong on Dec 30, 2012.

"In other words, the iPhone 4 is not supported for AMBER/Emergency Alerts in the US."

It is now... If you're with AT&T...

The iPhone 4 does not support AMBER/Emergency Alerts in the US on AT&T.

AMBER/Emergency Alerts are only available on the 4S and 5 on AT&T after they released a carrier update in the last few days.

From http://www.att.com/esupport/article.jsp?sid=KB410692&cv=820#fbid=nCtfhnAycBz

Are Wireless Emergency Alerts available on all devices?

diesel vdub wrote:

Make sure your facts are correct before stating that others are incorrect.

Thanks for editing that out of your post. I thought you were starting to get a little upitty for awhile there. And might I say, quite an appropriate comment, in fact. For example:

diesel vdub wrote:

The iPhone 4 does not support AMBER/Emergency Alerts in the US on AT&T.

AMBER/Emergency Alerts are only available on the 4S and 5 on AT&T after they released a carrier update in the last few days.

Actually, I happen to own 3 - iPhone 4's, NOT 4S," iPhone four", plural, three of them. On two of them, running 6.1.3, I have the Government Alerts under Settings > Notifications.

diesel vdub wrote:

No, it is not.

Yes, it is true. And Llessur999 thinks it's true, too.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4340484?answerId=22273188022#22273188022

And so do these guys (fourth paragraph):

http://www.al.com/business/index.ssf/2013/06/att_rolls_out_emergency_alerts.html

Here's another useful addage to keep in mind:

"Don't believe everything you read on the internet."

Last word?

Per AT&T and Apple the feature does not work on the iPhone 4. If it works for you that is great but it is irresponsible of you to tell others that it definitively works on devices that the manufacturer and carrier says it does not work on.

"does not work on the iPhone 4."

I agree.

I had to re-read my posts. I don't remember having said that this update actually WORKS on an iPhone 4. In fact, I'm not sure that I even implied that. For the sake of clarification/correction, I'll ammend my previous posts with the following:

Althought this device is not supported for this feature, your iPhone 4 MIGHT become INFECTED with this update.

Now that we've hashed out the symantics, how 'bout we concentrate on the solution. Since it's NOT supported, how can we rid our iPhone 4's of this infection?

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5111208

Contact the carrier to ensure they have your device properly listed on their network as the correct model.

Ensure that you actually have an iPhone 4 and not a 4S.

There is really little to nothing the user can do to alter which carrier update version is installed on their device.