I’ve gotten emergency weather alerts on my phone for most of my life, but didn’t get one today that another person in my household did. It’s …possible that they lied about this -but, still, it spooked me and I want to make sure that I get important weather alerts where I live. In my phone’s settings, it says that precise location had to be turned on to get emergency alerts from google (i have a pixel). I think this is garbage, and i would like to get around it. Emergency alerts are still a public service in the US, right? I should still get the really dire warnings like tornades and such regardless of what settings or apps i have on my phone? Or has that changed in recent years.
That is how I assumed it would work. I can’t really think of a reason why I couldn’t still work that way or why we would want to change it.
Even with things being more complicated like with WiFi calling and such I still think we would want it via the location of a cell tower not necessarily the phone itself.