If not aware, it is possible to disable test alerts on iPhone like today’s 
specifically. https://support.apple.com/en-us/102516

I noticed mine was off the other day and turned it on in anticipation of 
today’s test. 


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> On Oct 4, 2023, at 12:27 PM, Jay R. Ashworth via Outages 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I have a report from a usually reliable source that he did not receive 
> today's
> IPAWS/CMAS/WEA test message, and he surmises this might be because his phone
> handset is forced to VoWIFI.  I have a number of other reports, mostly though
> not all, from the broadcast engineering community; nobody reported expecting
> a CMAS and not getting it, so that's not data here.
> 
> Is anyone on the list involved with the FEMA/IPAWS/CMAS link, or knows someone
> who is, and has a channel to clear this query up through?
> 
> I could be unsurprised to find that the carrier VoWIFI proxies missed out on
> proxying SMS Cell Broadcast, which I gather provides the underlying PHY for
> CMAS.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- jra
> 
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