How to turn off the 'armageddon' emergency alert texts to your phone
Millions of mobile phone users across the UK will be part of an 'armageddon alert' system trial in a few weeks. It will see extremely loud alarms go off on devices, accompanied by an alert message.
But what if you don’t want to participate in the trial run or for some reason don’t want the alarm to play through your phone? Well if this is the case, there is a way to disable the alert - and it’s simple to do.The alerts will be sent automatically to all compatible mobile devices in the affected area. However, people can opt-out of receiving the alerts if they do not wish to receive them.
Alerts have gone off during severe weather events and in the UK, alerts could be used to tell residents of villages being encroached by wildfires, or of severe flooding. If there an alert goes off in a real scenario, Unified World Communications says: “When you get an alert, stop what you’re doing and follow the instructions in the alert.
“This will not include older ‘non-smart’ phones but the 3G technology that they use is being switched off next year. However, Unified World Communications says “these alerts are potentially life-saving so we recommend you keep them switched on.”
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