Turning Off Emergency Alerts

Hello EOh217,

We have a great support article that might help with this. Please take a look at it here: About government and emergency alerts on Apple Watch - Apple Support. This specific guidance should help:

"Turn on Test Alerts for an Apple Watch you set up for a family member

If you set up an Apple Watch for a family member using Family Setup, you can use your iPhone to turn on Test Alerts for their watch:

1. Make sure that the Apple Watch has the latest version of watchOS. For these steps, you need watchOS 8.4 or later.
2. On the iPhone that you used to set up the Apple Watch, download the Test Alerts profile:
3. Test Alerts profile
4. Tap Allow. If you're asked to choose the device that you want to install the profile on, choose Apple Watch.
5. Open the Settings app, then tap Profile Downloaded.
6. Tap Install. Follow the onscreen instructions to finish installing the profile.
7. After the profile is installed, on the Apple Watch, go to Settings > Notifications.
8. Turn on Test Alerts.

To turn Test Alerts off, either:

• Go to Settings > Notifications and turn off Test Alerts.
• Go to Settings > General > Device Management and remove the profile."

We hope this helps. Let us know if we can assist with anything else at all. Take care.

Good afternoon EOh217,

It might be helpful for you to speak directly with an Apple advisor about this issue.  Click the link below, choose the phone number for your region from the list, and call when it is convenient.

Contact Apple for support and service - Apple Support

Take care.

EOh217 wrote:

How do you turn off gov't & emergency alerts on an Apple Watch that is set up with Family Sharing?

It may depend where you in the world you live. In many jurisdictions the local laws do not allow the Government Alerts or Emergency Alerts to be disabled.