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I want to be able to silence Amber Alerts but still receive them. On Android, my only options are completely off, or full-blast obnoxious tone.

I CANNOT have my phone making noise, so it has to be fully off. If there was a choice for silent notifications, I would choose that.

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I don't know which phone you're using, but on my pixel if I have my ringer volume on silent, and the phone on "do not disturb" mode, amber alerts come in silent. I'm not sure which one, or the combination actually silences it since this is usually how I keep my phone when the alerts happen to occur.

https://www.missingkids.org/gethelpnow/amber#howtoreceiveamb...

I appreciate the attempt to help, but it just gives Facebook, Twitter, and Inatagram links to follow, none of which I use. I click on the link to the Amber Alert .gov website, and they don't offer any (sane) ways to get notifications.

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