Public Safety Alert Ios. Public safety officials can help protect their communities with the ability to send emergency alerts. For example you could identify your home your childs school where your aging parent.
The Wireless Emergency Alert WEA enhancements of December 2019 included the addition of the Public Safety category to the list of WEA categories ie WEA Handling Codes. Turn on your iPhone or iPad in iOS 10. An alert consists of a title an optional message one or more buttons and optional text fields for gathering input.
If you want to turn these alerts on or off follow these steps.
Scroll to the very bottom of the screen. In most countries Apple lets you turn off all three categories but you could still receive so-called Presidential Alerts which are meant to reach everyone in the. It provides an effective way to alert and warn the public about emergencies using the Emergency Alert System EAS Wireless Emergency Alerts WEA NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards and other public alerting systems from a single interface. Slide left on Emergency Alerts turn it off.