{"id":10358,"date":"2019-06-02T19:18:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T01:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanuja.com\/blog\/?p=10358"},"modified":"2020-05-29T18:03:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T00:03:43","slug":"how-to-update-emergency-alerts-on-android-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanuja.com\/blog\/how-to-update-emergency-alerts-on-android-device","title":{"rendered":"How to Update emergency Alerts on Android device"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>The emergency alerts system is a useful feature on most smart devices with a SIM installed. Some government agencies can access the system even when you do not have a SIM installed on the device. The system is used to push notifications (alerts) on unforeseen extreme weather conditions, natural disasters to Amber alerts (missing children). I do not promote the idea of disabling alerts, but if for whatever personal reasons you would like to disable it, you can do it on most current Android devices. The following guide is based on Samsung One UI 1.0 but it is applicable for other devices. If you do not have a Samsung device, the settings for changing the behavior of emergency alerts can be found under general system settings. Type \u201cemergency alerts\u201d on the settings search bar.<!--more--><\/p>\r\n<p>You may watch the video on my YouTube channel instead of reading this article.<\/p>\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CXMllbGxCEA\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<p>This is what an emergency alerts look like and it appears under your general messaging app.<p>\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sanuja.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emergency_alerts_01.jpg\">\r\n<p>You can see the \u201cEmergency alerts\u201d with white\/red triangle contact image (above). On my phone, I have a few emergency alerts (image below). For example, there is a message from Saturday, June 01, 2019. The message contains additional information: text and links. What is appearing on the message itself is decided by your local\/regional government agency.<\/p>\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sanuja.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emergency_alerts_02.jpg\">\r\n<p>You can select the message by pressing and holding down the message for a few seconds. It will provide you with the menu to either delete it or go to details.<\/p>\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sanuja.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emergency_alerts_03.jpg\">\r\n<p>If you go to details, you can find additional technical details. This is what your Android device collects in the background. The information here may not be very useful to most people, but it is there in case you would like to gather such data.<\/p>\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sanuja.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emergency_alerts_04.jpg\">\r\n<p>To update the settings for alerts, go back to the Messages app on your Samsung Android device and open the messages menu from the top right-hand corner (3 dots).  Then select \u201cSettings\u201d from the drop-down menu.<\/p>\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sanuja.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emergency_alerts_05.jpg\">\r\n<p>On other Android devices this option may be placed under general settings. As I mentioned before, Type \u201cemergency alerts\u201d on the settings search bar or you can search under message settings. Once you are in the messages settings, select \u201cEmergency alerts settings\u201d.<\/p>\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sanuja.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emergency_alerts_06.jpg\">\r\n<p>On all Android devices running Android 9.0, you should see \u201cEmergency alerts\u201d option under \u201cEmergency alerts settings\u201d. Select that option to open various categories of emergency alerts.<\/p>\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sanuja.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emergency_alerts_07.jpg\">\r\n<p>Now you can either turn on or off these settings.<\/p>\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sanuja.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emergency_alerts_08.jpg\">\r\n<p>I <b>do not recommend turning off<\/b> most of these settings. These pushed alerts could either could help you or someone else. For example, the government statistics show the Amber Alerts have helped locate missing children. However, I typically keep the \u201cWPAS Test alerts\u201d turned off. Samsung phones typically shipped with test alerts turned off by default. This is one of the reasons why some people did not get the test alerts sent by the recent government testing of the system in Alberta.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The emergency alerts system is a useful feature on most smart devices with a SIM installed. Some government agencies can access the system even when you do not have a SIM installed on the device. The system is used to push notifications (alerts) on unforeseen extreme weather conditions, natural disasters to Amber alerts (missing children). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sanuja.com\/blog\/how-to-update-emergency-alerts-on-android-device\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Update emergency Alerts on Android device<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,25],"tags":[10,19],"class_list":["post-10358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computer-science","category-ce","tag-tech","tag-tutorials"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sanuja.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emergency_alerts_03.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanuja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanuja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanuja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanuja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanuja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sanuja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanuja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanuja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanuja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanuja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}