Middle of the night "emergency broadcast" tests

General Bug reports
#1

I am receiving Emergency Broadcast Test messages that no one else in my house on my phone plan are receiving and they are receiving ones I am not - the messages I am receiving are both in English and another language (not sure what it is) - it’s annoying when I receive 8 of them between 10:30 and 12:00 Noon on a weekday - it’s INFURIATING when I receive them between 11pm and 1am in the morning when I have a migraine like last night. (I’ve had middle of the night alerts the last 3 weeks)

There was one other post about emergency broadcast messages - and there is a note on it that the problem has been resolved - but not what was done to resolve it - help please

#2

have you turned off emergency alerts?

#3

Really sorry about that. You can disable test messages with the following steps:

  1. Open “Messages” App > 3-dots (top-right) > Settings
  2. Tap Advanced > “Wireless emergency alerts”
  3. Tap 3-dots (top-right) > Settings
  4. De-select “State and local tests” OR “emergency required tests”.

This should stop all test alerts. If you still get the alerts, you could disable emergency alerts all-together and let us know so that we can diagnose this further.

#4

I get these alerts every once in a while in the middle of the night. Under my messages app settings I do not have “State and local tests” OR “emergency required tests"

I turned off All emergency notifications so hopefully that did it but any other suggestions?

#5

Do you know what alerts you received? Were they test alerts or some genuine alerts?

#6

I believe that most of them were test alerts. - but was very hard to figure out because the language wasn’t english - I think they were in Spanish

175lbs down and still shrinking slowly
Jazi

#7

They are always the recording that says
This is a test of the emergency broadcast system. Then the annoying sirens.
The volume bypasses my phone settings.
But not sure if it’s legit or not.
Could be coming from some app.

#8

These are most likely real tests of the alert system. Have you gotten them after disabling the test alerts in settings?