Wireless emergency alerts help warn mobile phone users of imminent threats to life or property, such as extreme weather and natural disasters. These alerts target affected geographic areas and come with a loud sound scary enough to make you want to turn off emergency alerts altogether on your iPhone, but there's a way to keep emergency alerts without the ear-splitting, intrusive sound. State and local government-issued alerts have been silenceable since iOS 14.5, so that means any iPhone model that's an iPhone 6S or newer can mute alert sounds. You can skip to the instructions below if you... more
