When a child is abducted, Amber Alerts are projected on your phone screen, highway signs and local broadcasts. The emergency alert is issued when a certain criterion is met in a child abduction.

AMBER and emergency notifications are pretty loud, though, and can occur at any moment of the day. If you’d like to disable these alerts, we’ll teach you how to do so for both iPhone and ...

America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response, or AMBER alert, first started in Dallas-Fort Worth when local police partnered with broadcasters to create a system warning for abducted children ...

The test alert is set to blast out on Wednesday, Oct. 4, at 2:20 p.m. EDT, 1:20 p.m. CDT, 12:20 p.m. MDT and 11:20 a.m. PDT and will last about a minute, similar to an Amber Alert or weather alert.

Evelyn Boswell is a 15-month-old girl missing in Tennessee. Andrew Caballeiro was a week old when he was last seen in Florida. Osiel Rico, 3, has been missing from New Mexico for nearly two months.

The FCC has delayed implementing its multilingual emergency alerts system — making non-English speakers vulnerable during climate disasters.

With emergency alerts enabled, your iPhone will trigger a loud alarm whenever there's an extreme weather warning, an AMBER alert, an evacuation notice or a national emergency.

Florida residents who own a cell phone have likely received an AMBER alert at some point or another, but what role can ...

Turn off the alerts you don't want to receive by tapping each slider next to it from green to grey: AMBER Alerts, emergency alerts, public safety alerts and test alerts. You can also turn alert ...

Get ready to not freak out. On Wednesday, Oct. 4 at 2:20 p.m. EDT, every TV, radio and cellphone in the United States should blare out the distinctive, jarring electronic warning tone of an ...

An Amber Alert, or a child abduction emergency alert, is a message distributed by a child abduction alert system to ask the public for help in finding abducted children.

America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response — or AMBER — Alerts are part of a nationwide system that began in 1996, developed to help authorities locate abducted children.