Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, William Herrin wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 11:21 AM Sabri Berisha <sabri () cluecentral net> wrote:
> > Makes me wonder what I have to do to opt out of this. We all remember what happened in Hawaii.
>
> For the national alert you can't. That's intentional.
>
> Although for some reason my silenced phone made no noise. I got the
> alert, it popped up on the screen, but no noise.


If you don't want any interruptions, you can set your phone to "Airplane 
Mode." Airplane Mode disables reception of all Wireless Emergency Alerts 
for as long as the phone stays in Airplane Mode.