Amber alert woke me up, despite "do not disturb" setting.

I just got my first Amber Alert and it scared the **** out of me. I am surprised DND allows them to go through. However, I think they are are a good idea. I usually keep my phone on vibrate at night, so I think it will be ok.

What is really baffling to me is that the Amber Alert also came through on my old, deactivated 4S that was NOT connected to my wifi network. I assumed the 4S was deactivated when I activated my new 5S.

If I recall correctly, in iOS 6, the Amber Alerts still made that high pitch beep when on vibrate. Just like the Alarm Clock would still produce sound on vibrate.

So it might of carried over into iOS 7.

KOT

After the first alert (it happened at work) it took all of 5 minutes to find the Settings > Notification Center > Government Alerts and tur them off. Yeah it's stupid to force them on, but it's hardly a federal case. I've gone a year with absolutely zero alerts. Off works. End of story.

@7Valleys

The issue isn't whether or not the alerts can be turned off completely. They obviously can. The Amber Alert feature is a useful function to have activated, however it is completely useless to receive Amber Alerts in the middle of the night when I'm in bed sleeping. In fact, having the Amber Alerts disregard the DND settings is counterproductive as it results in the user completely disabling the Amber Alert functionality.

I would really like the Amber Alert functionality to respect the user's DND settings, that way it doesn't have to be completely disabled.

You can offer Apple feedback here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/. However, it is entirely possible the bahavior of that alert may not be Apples' decision alone.

This is user supported, to contact Apple, go to www.apple.com/feedback and post your feedback there.

You're not talking to Apple. Emergency Alerts, including Amber Alerts, are designed to override DND and silent mode. If you don't want to get them, then turn them off.

As with anything designed by committee, you can't please everyone.

That's the point TJBUSMC1973, we should have a choice whether to be woken up or not and still be able to recieve the alert.

where ya be at?

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This one appears to me to be more like you can't please anyone!

Allan

I must concur with Spidurz. I never turned on the alerts.

After reading this thread, I checked the statis of alerts on my phone. They were both on. They are both off now.

Allan

Luckily, it appears that it not carry over. The "deactivated" 4S was on vibrate when the alert came through. I heard that phone vibrate first before the god awful noise on the 5S scared me.

Oops "did not carry over."

Forgot to mention the 4S was upgraded to iOS 7.