Can someone tell me how to turn off auto update on an android for the emergency alert system? Is it an actual app? Please link if you have info. Thank you.
Android (by Google) is mostly fine. It's Apple taking the unwanted step. Generally speaking, Apple software tends to interfere a lot more with the settings like a nanny state (in this case saying, "You won't need that, sooo I'll turn it off for you.") while Google takes a more hands-off, "I won't move if I can help it to implement such changes even though I could do that, plus it's messy and you might actually need it" approach.
Automatic software updates is a system setting and is completely separate to app updates. To set this to manual anyway:
Open Settings > Software Update (typically third from last).
Disable Scheduled software updates.
Emergency alerts settings are different for each iteration of android OS (e.g. Samsung's version is different to a Google phone) and are typically linked to the messaging app itself. Read this article for instructions:
Can someone tell me how to turn off auto update on an android for the emergency alert system? Is it an actual app? Please link if you have info. Thank you.
Android (by Google) is mostly fine. It's Apple taking the unwanted step. Generally speaking, Apple software tends to interfere a lot more with the settings like a nanny state (in this case saying, "You won't need that, sooo I'll turn it off for you.") while Google takes a more hands-off, "I won't move if I can help it to implement such changes even though I could do that, plus it's messy and you might actually need it" approach.
Automatic software updates is a system setting and is completely separate to app updates. To set this to manual anyway:
Open Settings > Software Update (typically third from last).
Disable Scheduled software updates.
Emergency alerts settings are different for each iteration of android OS (e.g. Samsung's version is different to a Google phone) and are typically linked to the messaging app itself. Read this article for instructions:
https://www.androidcentral.com/amber-alerts-and-android-what-you-need-know
Very very extremely unlikely that google isn’t in on whatever Apple is in on