Your Google Pixel 6a comes with an emergency alert feature that will notify your phone when there is some potential hazards happening near your area. To see how you can enable, customize and/or disable these notifications, you can take a look at this tutorial from Seeking Tech.
How to turn on emergency alerts for Google Pixel 6a
In order to enable emergency alerts for Google Pixel 6a, you need to take the following steps:
1. To start off, turn on and then unlock the screen of your phone.
2. Next, you need to go to the Settings App.
3. From opening the Settings App, you need to scroll down and then select Safety & Emergency.
4. In the Safety & Emergency menu, you need to tap Wireless Emergency Alerts.
5. After getting to the Wireless Emergency Alerts menu, make sure that the “Allow alerts” setting is enabled.
How to customize emergency alerts for the Pixel 6a
To customize the settings for emergency alerts on your Google Pixel 6a, you need to do the following:
1. Head to the Settings App on your Pixel device.
2. Inside of Settings, you need to go to Safety & Emergency.
3. From the Safety & Emergency menu, select Earthquake Alerts.
4. In the Earthquake Alerts menu, you can choose whether or not to enable alerts to get notify if there are earthquakes nearby that are at least 4.5 in magnitude.
5. You can then go back to the Safety & Emergency menu and then head over to Wireless Emergency Alerts.
6. In the Wireless Emergency Alerts menu, you can choose to allow or disallow the following alert types:
- Extreme threats
- Severe threats
- Amber alerts
- Public safety messages
- State and local tests
7. In the same Wireless Emergency Alerts menu, you can choose whether or not to set your Pixel phone to vibrate when an alert is received.
8. Furthermore, you can also set the alert reminder in the same menu to any of the following duration periods:
- Once
- Every 2 minutes
- Every 15 minutes
- Never
How to turn off emergency alerts for Google Pixel 6a
If you want to disable emergency alerts for your Google Pixel 6a, then you need to take the following steps:
1. To start off, you need to open the Settings App on your phone.
2. With the Settings App opened, you need to tap Safety & Emergency.
3. If you want to disable emergency alerts for earthquakes, then you need to tap Earthquake Alerts and then make sure that the “Earthquake Alerts” setting is turned off.
4. If you want to remove other alerts, you need to go back to the Safety & Emergency menu and then select Wireless Emergency Alerts.
5. In the Wireless Emergency Alerts menu, you can disable specific emergency types found listed under the Alerts section. If you want to turn off all emergency notifications, then simply need to make sure that the “Allow alerts” setting located at the top of this menu is disabled.