Does airplane mode disable amber alerts?

[fluffycookieman]

I got 3 amber alerts today at school so did the rest of school? Will airplane mode turn off the amber alerts?

 

[Robert Cook]

I got 3 amber alerts today at school so did the rest of school? Will airplane mode turn off the amber alerts?

well according to some android forums I found it does. also I believe you can turn them off in settings. ( For iOS there as is it appears for andriod) sadly though I cannot say much more I do not know much more about smart phones.

 

[Solandri]

"Airplane mode" is rather unfortunately named. Phones originally added it as a way to quickly comply with FAA guidelines that no radios should be transmitting within the passenger compartments aboard flights. This means no cellular service, no wifi, so no Amber Alerts as well. But it's now been modified to allow you to manually turn on wifi to take advantage of in-flight wireless Internet service. Some airlines are toying with adding in-flight cellular service as well, so if that catches on, "airplane mode" will no longer have anything to do with airplanes.

The Amber Alerts are sent over a special cellular broadcast channel - kinda like SMS, but a different channel reserved specifically for emergency broadcasts (EBS, tornado warnings, imminent nuclear attack warning, etc). So shutting off cellular service will also turn them off. However, you can turn them off without shutting off cellular service. Pretty much every phone OS has that option.

http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-turn-off-emergency-alerts-on-your-phone/