How To Turn OFF And ON Severe Weather Alerts On iPhone and iPad in iOS 10

For those that have had their Apple iPhone and iPad in iOS 10 make weird loud noises with nonstop vibrations, it could be because you have just received a severe weather alert or emergency notification. These notifications can keep you safe, but some want to know how to turn off severe weather alerts on the iPhone and iPad in iOS 10.

The Apple iPhone and iPad in iOS 10 gets emergency alerts or severe weather warning from government officials, local and state safety agencies, FEMA, the FCC, the National Weather Service or even Homeland Security. Having these alerts installed on your Apple iPhone and iPad in iOS 10 is for your own safety, but for those that want to know how to turn off severe weather alert sounds, we’ll explain below.

All Apple iPhone and iPad devices have emergency or severe weather alerts and notifications just like other smartphones. But many have suggested the Apple’s alerts are the loudest and most annoying of them all. The iPhone and iPad in iOS 10 has four kinds of alerts. Presidential, Extreme, Severe, and AMBER alerts. All of them but one can be disabled, just follow the instructions below to turn them off.

How to Turn Off Severe Weather Alerts on the iPhone and iPad in iOS 10

The way that you can control the emergency and weather alerts on the Apple iPhone and iPad in iOS 10 is by going to the text messaging application called “Messaging”. Once you get to the Messaging app, follow these steps:

1. Turn on your iPhone or iPad in iOS 10
2. Open the Settings app
3. Tap on Notification
4. Scroll down to Government Alerts
5. Slide left on either AMBER Alerts or Emergency Alerts turn it off.

If you want to turn the alerts back ON, just follow the instructions above and recheck the boxes you want to get alerts and notifications from. All of the alerts can be turned off expect for the presidential alerts. You’ve now successfully disabled any of those alerts that were keeping you awake at night, or going off at the wrong time on your Apple iPhone and iPad in iOS 10.