At roughly 2:20PM ET, FEMA will conduct a test of both the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and the Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) masking radio, TV broadcasts, and cellular gadgets within the US, however you may not see it in your telephone. That’s as a result of this time round, not like the Presidential Alert check in 2018, it’s going to solely attain telephones with a setting to obtain check messages and by default, most telephones are set to opt-out.

According to this document (PDF) from the FCC, on Android telephones, there needs to be a Wireless Emergency Alerts part in your settings menu with an possibility for “State/Local Test alerts” which you can activate or off. The course of described for iOS is extra sophisticated, however Apple’s support page explains how one can opt-in:

Open the Phone app and faucet Keypad.

To flip it on: Enter *5005*25371# and faucet . You’ll get an alert that claims “Test alerts enabled.”

To flip it off: Enter *5005*25370# and faucet . You’ll get an alert that claims “Test alerts disabled.”