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

Well the idea behind this needs to be thought through more thoroughly. If I'm in bed sleeping it isn't likely I'll be encountering someone that is the subject of an AMBER alert. If I turn them off because the loud siren wakes me up in the middle of the night, you've lost my participation completely. I'm sure thousands did turn them off today. You're defeating the entire purpose. Whereas if it respected DND, I would get the alert in the morning, where I might actually see the abductor's car on the road on the way to work.

Maybe Apple is contracturally obiliged not to silence the alerts, but it's certainly something they are able to do.

Apple and Tim Cook -- hope you are looking!

If my kid ended up in an AMBER alert, I'd rather people get the alert on their own terms instead of not at all.

By not providing an alternate option to completely disabling AMBER alerts, it decreases the likelihood that people will receive them.

Please provide better options.

If you are required by law to issue some form of alert signal, please allow an option such as mute, leaving vibrate on to fulfill the signaling requirement.

Ladyhax wrote:

Apple and Tim Cook -- hope you are looking!

No, they are not. As has been explained, more than once I think, in this thread, this is a user-to-user forum. Apple is not reading here. Use the feedback page to let them know how you feel:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

Being 'able' to do something, and it being 'legal', are sometimes two different things. I'm 'able' to do a lot of things that the law does not allow me to do.

Either enable or disable the Amber alerts. Turn them off when you want to be undisturbed. Turn them back on when you want to have them on. Simple.

Well then stop complaining about it. You didn't have to turn them on in the first place, and Apple doesn't have to do anything about it. You decided to turn them on, so decide to turn them off and be happy. Nobody keeps track of when you sleep, it just goes out at one time to everybody who has them on.

Clearly there's things that bypass that like the safety of missing people. Like I said, it all goes out at the same time NOT BY APPLE (also not knowing or caring whether you're sleeping becasue a missing person is frankly more important than your sleep) and you chose to turn it on, so you can also choose to turn it off. Its really a simple solution. I could care less if you're complaining, but you're complaining about a personal decision you made to turn the notifications on for the Amber alert

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

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.

I don't think that Apple has any say in this. Those alerts were part of co-operative agreement between the cell carriers, law enforcement, and the National Center for missing children. While you can opt in and opt out of them on your own phone, if you "opt in" they are on, period. So yes, your only choices are to enable or disable them. From my readings of press releases and news stories about them, that is by design and neither a carrier nor a cell phone manufacturer can alter that basic functionality.

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.

No way am I going to get up and turn them on and then turn them off before I go to bed. They'll just stay off and defeat the purpose of the whole program.

Then let it defeat the purpose of the program on your end.

For me, personally, as a parent, I don't mind Amber alerts. If I got an Amber alert at 3 a.m., that stated that there was a kidnapping a few miles away? I'd be staying up the rest of the night, to keep watch over my family.

But, hey, choose what works best for you. No skin off our noses.

But Destine my phone does currently keep track of when I don't want to be disturbed, ie sleeping.

I wasn't given a choice to turn them off when the feature appeared. They were ON automatically.

The point is I'd like to participate in the AMBER alert program because it's important. But not allowing people to control how they're notified you'll just make them turn the alerts off. Participation goes down and all those people aren't on the lookout for that particular vehicle with the abducted child in it. Everybody looses.

If you don't want to read complaints then you shouldn't be reading discussion boards in the first place. I came to this discussion looking to see if there was some nuanace in the settings I was missing.

I've left feedback for Apple and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

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.