[DonHopkins]

Oh shit -- it was a really loud jarring sound, it must have been painful. They have recently started sending test phone alerts at the same time they perform the regular first Monday of the month noon emergency alert siren tests in Amsterdam. Maybe you should set an alarm just before then to make sure you're not listening to music!

https://www.government.nl/topics/counterterrorism-and-nation...

[londons_explore]

Or just turn emergency alerts off on your phone.

Average number of millimorts saved by those alerts I bet is really low.

[LeonM]

I don't want to turn it off, but it should obey the volume setting if headphones are connected (your phone can detect that).

But I guess this is vendor specific, in my case it was a Samsung S9, maybe other vendors implement it differently

[darkhorn]

>est phone alerts

What is that? SMS? Phone call?

[tremon]

Cell broadcast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_Broadcast

[darkhorn]

Oh, I'm using this since early 2000s. And I've subscribed to several channels like location, emergency, tourism, football, weather. Most of them don't work. I get location messages regularly but they make SMS like sound. And my LG G5 doesn't have special sound settings in Cell Broatcasting app. So it looks like wheter you have the alert sound depends a bit on what phone/software you are using. I though that there is a new protocol. But anyways, I like cell broatcasting.