AMBER Alerts on your Windows Phone: What they are and how to manage them

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If you?re in California today, you may have heard an AMBER alert go off on your phone. If so, it probably really caught your attention. AMBER stands for America's Missing: Broadcasting Emergency Response Alerts, named after the late Amber Hagerman, and they are part of the Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) system on US and other carriers.
With Windows Phone 8 (and iOS and certain Android devices), users can go into their settings to enable or disable such notifications, or select which ones they want to receive. What types are there? What do they mean? We?ll explain.
But first, let?s tell you how to find them, as they?re kind of buried in the Windows Phone menu system.

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