Emergency: Severe Weather App App Reviews

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Jesus Christ ALIVEEEE the notifications. Okay, it’s a good weather app or whatever, it warns me of stuff I guess. The notifications, oh my god, I literally just deleted the app because it threw like a dozen notifications at me in seconds causing my phone to almost buzz its way off the stand. I’m sick of it, please for the love of god why? I don’t understand it’s just so many notifications with the exact same message, idk if I did something wrong but I don’t even care anymore, I’m only making this one star so maybe someone can see it and be warned, but I’m just done!!!! It’s just so many notifications and it’s been happening so much good golly ;w;

Killing this Annoying App. Just got completely sick of the incessant obnoxious alert tones for weather that has passed the area. Yes, I’d reduced the alert area radius, but it still includes whole counties even if only a tiny portion is included in an area no longer threatened that may be part of a given radius. Furthermore, I don’t need a dozen alerts telling me a storm is no longer a threat. If the threat is no longer, then why the urgent tones blasting to tell the threat has passed on a frequent basis. Once is enough! No ability to determine the exact area (not radius determined) as with the use of SAME codes on a normal weather radio. This app has potential, but its execution is ill thought out.

Won’t wake you if there is a tornado. With just a bit more tweaking this app could be perfect. I’d love a loud and continuous siren (maybe mimicking outdoor tornado alarms) to wake me if there is a tornado in the middle of the night. But there is only one notification tone and it is very polite. Really love being able to filter out nuisance alerts like severe thunderstorms; We see them all the time and they’re not worth me being alerted to them. And settings retain across phone reinstalls which is fantastic. But hey app developers, if the notification tones for the absolute worst emergencies are not configurable, many alerts will be missed.

Does not alert me. On several occasions I didn’t get ANY alerts from this app during severe thunderstorms, which, to me, was the entire point of the app. Ironically, the Tornado app that I still have that is supposed to be replaced by this app, DID alert me every single time… Another non-related weather app I have also alerted me each time a thunderstorm warning or watch occurred, but not this Emergency app. I’m beginning to have doubts about this app now. If I’m not getting alerts (and I have them turned ON under my Settings and I have locations set within the app) and still not getting alerts, but am from other apps, then something is wrong.

App Support Link is a web page advertising their other apps!. The app changed from English to Spanish and there is no setting option to change it back and the link for App Support goes to a website that does nothing but list their other apps! If there is an emergency I don’t want to try and read the alert in a language I have a very small vocabulary in. Guess I should be glad they didn’t change it to one of the other predominant second languages in my state such as Russian, Chinese, or Vietnamese! I will be letting Apple know that the required App Support link is worthless as the developer is not providing any avenue to support.

Fire. If this Emergency Alert app is supposed to be all-purpose, the Wildfire functionality needs to be beefed up. Unfortunately the Red Cross “Wildfire” app no longer works under the new IOS, and, this all-purpose Emergency app doesn’t handle fires adequately. Think about the Napa area fires this last October-what the functionality the app could have had that would have made things better for people who, it turned out, had little or no warning to evacuate from the fast-moving fires.

Great App; banners could be improved. Love this app! It gives me iPhone home screen banner alerts whenever any of my family members’ or friends’ areas are under weather threats. I love that! But the banners do not include the name of the monitored location. You have to click on the banner and launch the app just to find out which of your monitored locations the flood/storm/etc banner alert pertains to - a curious oversight. Nevertheless, i highly recommend this app.

Something is better than nothing. A lot of things you can’t customize like you could in the tornado app. I’m not sure why they would replace it with an app that’s not even close to the Tornado app. I’m sitting thru a bad storm right now, wondering if this has the tornado warning siren that comes thru my phone like the Tornado app did! I got a tornado warning thru that app on my phone for my daughters location, I called her because I was worried…she thought I was crazy and 5 mins later her local tornado warning went off. It was amazing….I am sitting here hoping you added that to this app!!!! Plz let me know it will certainly improve my rating!!!

Good, but needs to be able to pinpoint location. The is a good app and I appreciate the timely warnings about severe weather and tornado watches and warnings. However, the inability to pinpoint the center of your warning area is frustrating. For example, I am about 30 miles from the center of the closest metro area. Now I get warnings from 60 miles away on the other side of town if I make my notification ring 30 miles wide. Hopefully they can fix that soon.

Nice app but TOO LOUD!!. I like the idea of this app but had disabled it some time ago (probably let winter when it was most in use in our area). I forgot why. Loaded it again a few weeks ago. Wow! THAT must be why: the alerts are SO LOUD! I have volume on my phone turned down to tolerable volume for me, mute it at night or when I’m in a performance. Make it adjustable by user if you’d like this app to be used. Removing again for now.

"Monitor all your important locations!" NOT. Looking for an app that can tell me realtime if anything is happening in the Azores Islands as I have a good deal of family there, as well as my fathers childhood home right on the coast of Sao Lourenço ... my fear has always been with hurricanes & tropical storms, tsunami, & volcanic activity ; & so I was referred to this app. Imagine my confusion, being told there was no results to my search while trying to add "Azores Islands" as a location to monitor ... they seem to include Madeira on the map, but no Azores... & everytime I tried to add a city in Portugal or Madeira (Lisbon, for example) it would give me Lisbon New York USA & all related search terms IN THE US -- & wouldn't allow me to monitor any part or portion of Portugal!!! What the heck?!! This app is pointless. I know all too much what's happening in the US, it's being shoved in my face from every direction; what I was looking for was information on THE WORLDS HAPPENINGS we don't hear about normally. Plz resolve this silly flaw

Complete alert and emergency app. This app will monitor your moving location for emergencies that you have set up. You can also monitor the location of your family and friends or just select general locations. This app provides alerts for everything from tornado to air quality. Red Cross has also added a robust emergency training and quizzes to this app. Stay safe in grey skies and increase your preparedness in blue skies.

Used to be useful…. …But has gotten intrusive and annoying lately. The app now has a gray bar on the locations screen that says: Critical Alerts Disabled Learn more to never miss an alert …That leads to unhelpful, irrelevant FAQs if you tap it, even though I have all alerts enabled and push notifications. There is no way to dismiss this gray bar or even understand why it is there. Furthermore, it made me choose a "home" location for no discernible reason when I opened the app today, even though I monitor several locations. Creepy and made more suspect when the app asks for camera permissions when you try to attach a screenshot in their feedback form, and fails to attach and disables the attachment button if camera permissions are not granted. Worst of all, the alert notifications do not display a location, so you have to tap them or open the app to find out where the incident is. A huge, unnecessary pain for people like me that monitor multiple locations, as the app encourages you to do. If I hear back from the development team I will update this review, but for now, three stars is generous.

Needs work to monitor more locations. Tornado app was much better, we have livestock in 3 counties & I was used to monitoring all those counties, plus in the county I live in, plus the county I work in. Seems like this new app will only allow you to monitor where you have set your home location, plus wherever you might physically be without having to change locations on the fly- which is hard to do when you are commuting in a storm. Very disappointed.

Newest update takes away a key feature. I just read in the latest update notes that you no longer will send push notifications when NOAA cancels an alert. This was actually a feature that set this app apart from many others I used in the past. This feature is useful for many reasons when it is impractical to check the app (driving, working, sheltering-in-place, conserving phone battery during an emergency, etc.). Please bring this feature back!

Scared Me To Death. I understand that it was supposed to send you alerts but it was 3 in the morning when they sent a red flag warning in my area 💀✋ Like, okay but its 3 in morning and gave me a heart attack for a second. Overall, its not completely accurate but its good- it shows that it works and attempts to keep you alerted, it definitely did get me alerted! Would recommend

Good, to a degree. A year ago there was a tornado within 50 miles of us, and we live in the middle of pine forests where there have been wildfires, so we wanted a way to be notified. This seemed to fit the bill. But I find myself thinking about deleting it because I can’t tell you how many times it has blared a warning at 3:30 or 4:00 in the morning to tell me about a status change to take place 6 to 8 hours later. Scares the heck out of me when there is no need.

Too many alerts at the wrong times. Yes, I realize it doesn’t rain very often in Southern California. It’s been raining. Why so many alerts? Every time the national weather service changes a few words on the area weather reports, I get an alert. The last straw was last night at 2:30 AM, when I was sound asleep, and when I have do not disturb for most of my apps. This thing made a loud noise that woke us both up. Just because they might’ve changed a word on the weather report. You need to tweak your app.

Very good app, with some minor complaints. This is what I consider as the best app for its purpose, out of those that I am aware of. It presents a quality interface and breadth of information, with links to additional useful resources. It is very good at providing timely notifications on any monitored locations, which the user can define, and does so in an effective, concise format. The primary complaint I have is the collection of personally-identifiable information, which I consider completely unnecessary for the app’s stated purpose. I can understand the developer’s desire, and possible need, to collect anonymous, non-personally identifiable information, but no more than that. To the developer: please change your data collection practices, as suggested above.

Good for various alerts but needs work. Good for various alerts like fires, snow, rain, earthquakes, hurricanes, etc., but needs work. It prompts you for people you care about in a particular town that you specify. But if you exit the app then those contacts are lost. Same with the “I’m safe” feature - great idea but in an emergency I want the contacts loaded and ready so I can just send loved ones the message that I’m alright. Those contacts aren’t saved either. Otherwise good app.

Excessive Notifications, No Way to Adjust. I finally downloaded this app in anticipation of the Earthquake app being sunsetted later this summer. Almost immediately, I began receiving emergency notifications for three out of my seven selected locations, as often as every five minutes. This app seems to cry wolf at an extremely excessive rate, and there seems to be no option to control how many notifications and for what types of emergencies one receives. Unlike an earthquake, excessive heat is a phenomenon one dan usually anticipate in advance, and so does not rise to the same level of emergency status. My friends in my selected locations are far more at risk from a wildfire or earthquake than excessive heat. It’s bad enough I am debating removing the app within 24 hours of downloading it, even though it took five tries to get it to download. Why replace a perfectly fine app with one that still has so many glitches?!

It was a wonderful app but not any more.. I don’t understand why there is a limit on the number of locations that can be monitored. I use to really like this app for three reasons. One, there was no limit on the locations you could monitor. And for a storm Spotter like myself, that was great. All other apps had limits on locations. Two, the alerts were full text bulletins. Three, the alerts were timely. I’ve removed this app, however, if the app is set back to the way it was, I’ll give it a try. I did like that the locations were in alphabetical order that was great and should be kept but there should be no limits on locations. If you don’t have an app to monitor alerts don’t put restrictions and tie peoples hands. Now please fix it back the way it was this is ridiculous.

Not Deaf friendly. I’ve had this app on my phone long time and it works fine on phone but I don’t get any of the weather alert on my apple watch. I’m Deaf and rely on the watch to alert me by vibrating to let me know things while I’m sleeping. When emergency sends a tornado warning to my phone I get nothing on my watch. If one happened here while I was asleep id be dead because no watch vibrating alert to wake me.

This app has been ruined. The updated app no longer shows maps of my chosen locations. The maps displayed the radius I chose to monitor, and the alert area, when I clicked on an alert, or selected a chosen location. Now it shows only a map of my location no matter what location or alert I select. Plus useless scenic photos. To me this is a poorly thought out update. I think it shows a lack of common sense. Please go back to displaying location maps showing radius monitored and alert area for each location I entered into the app. The only good thing I’ve seen is the option to monitor my location outside the locations I entered into the app. Please keep this option, but return to displaying maps for the locations I choose to monitor. Show the monitored radius, as well as the alert boundaries for the locations I inputted to the app. I can no longer recommend this app in it’s present version.

Alerts needs some work. I like the app, but the alert sounds are driving me crazy. I think there may be some bugs in the system. The alert sound is VERY loud, even when I have my phone on low volume or on silent. I’ve been getting multiple alerts over and over for the last 24 hours for the same snowstorm. Last night, I went on and turned sound alerts turned off except for critical alerts and today I am again (with my phone on silent) getting extremely loud alerts. They are now labeled ‘critical’ but there is no difference between the alerts I was getting yesterday. Even changing snowfall from 4-7 inches to 6-9 inches (or vice versa) shouldn’t warrant a new critical alert. I want to turn the alerts completely off, but am then afraid that I will miss a new, critical, alert such as a tornado warning when the season comes. Critical should be immediate and life threatening. Period.

Good but needs work. Fewer settings unable to connect family and friends More confusing to use I was getting alerts for a high wind storm on the old app. This new app did not alert until after the storm hit. I live in a rural area and 1 mile radius is not enough. I was at the nearest grocery store which is 10 miles away from my house. I do like some of the preparedness but do not need to scroll thru things that do not affect me such as hurricane volcano earthquake. I should be able to rate them or hide the ones that I don’t want to see.

Doesn’t allow to monitor a smaller area than entire county!. Will increase score when it allows monitoring an area smaller than 1-2 entire counties! My son’s city is near another county so now it requires that I receive alerts for TWO entire counties, which include areas that are over 100 miles from where he lives! PLEASE change this! Also, the keyboard constantly disappears while trying to type a review.

Is a Hurricane the same as a Tornado?. ---Same Day 1.]I wanted Tornado alerts not Hurricane alerts. Please make the notifications setting less clutter looking. 2.]For the badges and all that’s great. But when I want to learn more about it you guys just make me retake the quiz again. I think once we earn it we should be allowed access to the connections we need in case of that emergency, more information on how to deal with it, and the option to retake the quiz (and possibly the correct answers, if we already of the badge). 3.]For people with shaky hands or big fingers, please allow a dropdown or a type in function for the radius adjustment. 4.]If we download another app for emergencies. Because I saw you guys have a separate one of tornadoes but no tornado alert notification in this general app. Could you allow us to share information with it? So we don’t have to re-add everything again. Just an account and a free (no account) import and export option. 5.]Allow a change in measurements (metric & imperial) and temperature (Celsius & Fahrenheit). With the ability to monitor the miles and kilometers too. I will continue to update this.

Spams your phone constantly over nothing. I installed this because the far-superior Tornado app is being discontinued. This worthless piece of junk immediately started blowing up my phone every day, sometimes twice a day, with screeching emergency notifications complete with siren because of a “heat event” (temperatures over 99) that is being forecast for more than a week from now. Noisy, intrusive notifications EVERY DAY, not because of an approaching tornado, not because of an imminent severe thunderstorm, but just because the weather is going to be a little hotter than usual more than a week from now. The app treats every little thing like a screaming emergency — after all this crying wolf, it is useless for a real emergency. And turning off notifications defeats the entire point of having the app. Typical that the excellent Tornado app is thrown in the garbage so it can be replaced with a useless showpiece like this one that was put together with absolutely no idea of actual utility or of genuinely making people safer. But hey, someone’s crony got a fat contract out of it and who cares about those rubes in flyover country anyway, right?

Necessary. Great idea, but needs location work. When I get a notification of an event it does not tell me the location. When I expand that notification (clicking only once) I still don’t get it. Only when I fully open it up do I get a location. I have 5 locations set and don’t get alerts on all of them. I am very appreciative of being able to check on the fuzzy safety of my family and friends, but with all the bizarre weather we have been having, these alerts are mind blowing torture and time consuming to open. Please add on that these seem to be guesses and more often than not do not happen. My experience is mostly in mid to west Texas (and DFW areas). If this improves, I will add 2 more stars.

Alerts are too frequent & can’t be muted.. During periods of inclement weather I receive too many redundant alerts, one right after another. Made more annoying by the fact that I can’t mute the alerts in the app settings (the only way to mute the alerts is to put your phone on Silent). After the first 2 or 3 alerts I end up deleting the location just to avoid noisy notifications.

Why change what was a GREAT app to THIS???. The Red Cross storm app was the best that I found. It allowed me to pick multiple specific locations, establish a radius as a notification zone, then select the type of alerts that would trigger an actual tone notification on my phone. Mainly, it allowed me to EXCLUDE the annoying “Watch” and only alert me when a tornado was not only on the ground, but also within the zones that were preset. I don’t understand why they decided to ditch this app and replace it with something that is too broad with so limited customization. If they wanted me to have full county or city coverage, why not just include that as options? So far today my phone has continuously alerted me that I’m in a tornado watch zone, or that it’s been canceled, or that a new watch zone is now in effect. I know that’s the case, I can look outside and see the weather. So if this is a CYA legal thing, just give me the form where I can waive my ability to sue if the app doesn’t work the way it was intended. I’ll sign it!

Amazing helpful alerts. Where I live was hit by a devastating tornado last year and almost nobody in town received any weather alerts or if they did it was to late for them to take cover. There were many homes and lives lost that night. Since then we have all been searching for better apps to gives us alerts. I mean counting this one, I have 11 weather apps on my phone. That’s how traumatizing the events of last year were for myself and so many others. Out of all of my apps this is the ONLY ONE that sends me alerts consistently and early enough to prepare. If I do receive notifications from any of my other apps it is always well after I’ve already heard from this one. I have used our towns Facebook page to recommend this weather app to everyone so we can stay safe! ❤️

Less effective. The old “Tornado” app was more effective at providing situational awareness both visually and practically. 1) the main screen allowed you to see what disasters the specific location was being covered for in the app, 2) it allowed for linking critical contacts to the location for easy and efficient welfare checks, 3) site limitations, while recently expanded to 8 is still not enough. I use this app for personal location. I’m in the emergency response field and commercial products are available for the work environment. Do you have any intentions to address the 3 items listed above?

A few things I’d like to see.. 1.) I agree with other reviews on locations. 2.) Also, being in Tornado Alley and being hit this spring, I wish there was a way to add info FOR the Red Cross. ie Electricity required for medical equipment. Incapacitated person in home. Things like that are critical in an emergency. We had a hard time quickly moving downstairs because the alert went off AFTER the tornado was here. Hail woke us, ran to switch to battery power for equipment and grab baby to run to the basement. Alert went off and sirens started. Hail stopped. Damage was done. There was no warning.

Tsunami Warning Fail. I received a Tsunami warning for my area over 3 hours ago. Looking on various websites (NOAA, etc.) it checks out. My app alerted me though that it was retiring this summer and that I should download the Emergency app, which I did. Hours later & fiddling with the notification options and it’s still saying that there are ‘No Alerts for your area’. Meanwhile, we are still have a Tsunami Warning in my area. An emergency app that fails to accurately give alerts is dangerous, because you are relying it to do something it does not reliably do. I am deleting this app.

Doesn’t work properly. Sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn’t they’re going to storm and 10 miles of my house let’s find a tornado and I do not get any notification. Half the time I’m not getting notifications the other half of time I’m getting notifications well after the storm has passed. On a rare occasion it works properly. The original tornado app worked perfectly and could be trailered to my specific location. I don’t want warnings for my entire county. I’m in the SE corner of my county and only need warning of a 15 mike radius of both counties.

Good app, but notifications far too repetitive. I like the app, and it provides useful information while I am using it. What I don’t like, however, is receiving 15 notifications a day. Yes, I’m well aware we’re having a heatwave. One alert would have done, not (quite literally) 15. I’ve had to turn notifications off entirely because they became so frequent and intrusive. This makes the app less helpful, because now I won’t be able to receive the rare, useful notification.

Absolutely Useless!. The critical alerts on this app are useless, confusing & off! I downloaded this for fire, earthquakes & other alerts & kept other apps just in case & thank goodness I did! My critical alerts constantly go off when there is absolutely nothing! I even double checked the source & the NOAA isn’t sending out ANY SUCH ALERTS! I absolutely want critical warnings IF ITS APPLICABLE, however 7 critical alerts when there is ONE that is completely different is fear mongering & absolutely unnecessary & a waste of my time not to mention its waking me & my family up! I’m deleting this app! Complete waste of time & space!

Same Exact Message 4-10 Times In a Row. Seriously frustrating to have the constant interruption of this continual notification about the same thing. Even if you go to the App and read the message, it continually interrupts sending one after the next. So annoying. I have already reported this and they responded but it continues. Have to get rid of this app very soon as it’s overwhelming. It continually goes off even if my phone is turned off. It would be ideal if once the consumer responded, the app would stop sending multiple notifications. If I’m swiping it off of my screen it means I have read the notification why does it keep coming on and on. tonight I actually hit 10 times even though I kept pushing it away and even went to the app to look at it continue to notify me even though I was on the app. Annoying

Worthless. The previous app was ten times better. This one you can only track six of your friends. Haven't found oit how to delete a location so you can enter a different location. Moral of this app you can't have more than six friends. Whe you have a senetr storm alert at 2:30 pm and a tornado watch at 6:00 pm they both stay as alerts even though the other alert is over/cancelled does not remove it from your app. Trying to make this app better by combine it with yhe hurricane red cross was a mistake. It did not make it better but made it worse.

Too cumbersome. Too much information on screen that is NOT relevant to the User. I don’t need to know about events on the other side of the country unless I opt-in for it. Tracking every event everywhere might be useful too some but not on mobile devices. Not enough control of what to watch and what I can ignore. Not every calamity hits everywhere at the same time. The original Hurricane Tracker was MUCH better. Due to the multiple untimely alerts I have had to shut the app down. Kind of takes away from the purpose of the app.

No Alerts.... I recently moved to the South Eastern coast and decided to try out several weather apps in preparation for hurricane season. Well - here I am in August with a category 3 storm coming my way, 6 or more apps installed and Red Cross is the only one that will not give me any storm updates. I've gotten surge warnings, storm warnings, and flood watches from all the other apps. But Red Cross consistently says I have no alerts for my area. I've made sure the location is set and settings are enabled and still nothing. This is honestly a completely useless app for real time safety.

Could be great with a needed improvement. Love the way this app consolidates emergency info for our location and those we care about. Living in tornado country (is anywhere not tornado country now?), I appreciate the loud realistic tornado sound. At least the first time it goes off. I don’t appreciate it the second, third, fourth time for minor updates. I especially don’t appreciate it going off to tell me the alert has been cancelled. On option to mute the loud siren alerts for a few hours after the first time one responds to an alert would be great. Go ahead a notify me but with a pop up or chime. I don’t need to be awakened with an ear splitting alarm to be told the alert has been cancelled. Without this feature many will tur the alerts off completely and then forget to turn them on for when they are really needed.

MUST HAVE!!!. This is a must have app, it has come in handy numerous times. whether it be here in my own home or other family members throughout the state. when the alert comes in, I know that this app is giving me accurate information, and warnings so I can protect my family and alert others. this app all so provides useful information so you are ready and prepared for the moments when protecting yourself and others is called into action.

Uses same alerts for emergency and ending of emergency. If there is an emergency, this app will let you know (often a few minutes after all the weather apps alert). But then when an emergency is lifted (tornado watch cancelled, for example), it alerts with the same sound and headline, though the details show it's the ending of an emergency. Especially when people are already nervous, getting an alert about tornado warning, severe thunderstorm, etc. when it's actually the *exact opposite* can be scary. I reached out to the developers about this; it's still not fixed.

Great but needs work on the locations/radius!. Great app, and I love the fact that I can monitor multiple things in just one app, but it needs some work! I wish the locations and radius were better, like in the Tornado app!! This app includes the entire county for a location, not just specific zip codes which I think is better!! Especially when dealing with tropical systems like hurricanes, as my inland area often has different advisories/watches/warnings than my county’s coastal areas (speaking from nearly 40yrs of living in South FL!)!!! Plus it doesn’t even include smaller towns, and you can’t even edit your radius!!!! I monitor all of my family’s locations (and I have a lot!), and some friends too. Well for instance one family member lives in the Upper FL Keys, and you don’t even have their island when I tried to add it! In the tornado app you do have their island, but this app doesn’t AND includes the Entire FL Keys when adding an Upper Key you do have!🤦🏻‍♀️ Which when dealing with tropical systems like I mentioned earlier is NOT good, especially as The Lower, Middle & Upper Key’s are often spilt into different watches/warnings!! So I would appreciate fixing that please, especially before hurricane season!!! Other than that great job!!!!👍

False Sense of Security. I hate writing negative reviews without contacting the app developer first, but this one needs posted. Not to sound dramatic, but my experience with this app has led me to the conclusion that this app could actually cost someone their life. I say this because of the delay from the time the National Weather Service issues something like a Tornado Warning or Severe Thunderstorm Warning, to the time the app alerts you. I have a local news stations weather app, and it alerts me almost immediately when a warning is issued. This app’s alert typically comes in four minutes later. Four minutes doesn’t seem like much, but can be the difference between surviving a tornado and not. If you have this app, I highly recommend you at least download a second app that is more timely with their alerts. I really hope the developer sees this to look into the root cause of the delay. One other complaint. I don’t need to be woken up in the middle of the night by the app to inform me that a Thunderstorm Watch has expired.

Inferior to what it’s replacing.. Update: have now disabled notifications because they occur in triplicate and at times are every couple of hours for the same alert. They have become a nusence. This app was prematurely released and should be pulled back. Currently this product is inferior to the apps (Earthquake, Hurricane) it’s replacing. With the old apps I could set them up differently. You can’t do that under Emergency. Currently, I have the mile range set at 1 mile (default) for my location but am getting alerts for issues that are more than 25 miles away that have no bearing on my location. You can’t set mile range differently for the different types of alerts (earthquakes, weather). I don’t see alerts for shelter in place for chemical spills or smoke from wildfires. I hope these issues can be addressed.

Getting Worse. This app used to be great. Now, I’ve lost all my monitoring locations. No matter how many times I reenter them, they’re gone. Somehow, I am getting alerts, but I’m getting too many. I monitor a 5 mile radius and get 6-8 alerts for every event. So annoying. I will click on an alert to see it’s a warning area out of my monitored location. I back out of it to try and see which alert applies to me and they’re all gone. The app has become completely unreliable. If they won’t find updating it, it shouldn’t be on the app store so people can use reliable emergency management methods.

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Needs other than natural disasters. Should include active shooter or terrorist type events. Was in Vegas this weekend when the mass shooting happened. So should be able to report information on events like that. Provide information such as collection points, relocation points, family check-in capability....

Unable to Download New App. Having used the Red Cross apps for years I’m having to retain all the old ones, read that it’s retired and click to go to the new app. Where is the “download” cloud hiding? Apparently the new app is still a secret, for months I’ve been unable to find it because it doesn’t actually show up as “Emergency” or “Red Cross Emergency” via Apple apps.

Very poorly implemented.. Let’s just start with the Map. It is useless. Mostly it shows locations of shelters. According to this app: 1. The Red Cross only has 20 shelters in the entire US. 2. There are ZERO shelters west of Arkansas until you get to California. So as far as the Red Cross app is concerned, the middle of the US - where we have most of the dangerous weather - is on their own. “Provide your own shelter, folks.” At a minimum: we should be able to turn off the shelters shown (they clutter the map). But of course, we can’t. Anything that is this poorly done makes me question trusting it in an emergency. Who ran this app project? Did anyone test it? Ask anyone outside the project team for input ?It’s awful.

It just went off like clockwork!. Before the severe thunderstorm hit, the app went off. Soon after it passed, it notified us that the alert was over. Sure works for me. Btw, I’ve had the app for a while and this was the first time it’s gone off. It warns of ‘Severe’ weather. Not every every bit of rain and rumble of thunder.😉”…and that’s a good👍🏼thing.”🙂—Martha S

Has Issues. The app finally updated after over a year. When I tried to add a city I wanted to monitor it kept taking me away from the specific area I was interested in. The direction moved more to the east, away from the area, rather than moving in a westerly direction. I expanded the radius to 75 miles and it didn’t work.

I like but.... I think this will become a well used app but really wish the focus on opening would be to my main surrounding location instead of the huge expanded view of US and oceans making me have to zoom in.

Awesome!. Just alerted me to an incoming tornado 10 seconds before the sirens went off, and well before any of my other apps caught up to the unexpected touchdown! The tornado shifted its path and we were okay. Super thankful for this app! Worked outstandingly!

FIX THIS! All monitoring settings GONE???. This most recent update (3.11.0) wiped out all of my settings. I’m monitoring seven locations, all with different regional concerns and radii. Setting up these locations was already unnecessarily tedious and time-consuming, especially as they need to be carefully refined over time to minimize the many irrelevant alerts. And now they’re all gone. Poof. Same thing with the other two Red Cross apps I use. All personal monitoring settings completely wiped out. I am beyond dissatisfied. Useless.

Great app for home & travel. I strongly recommend using this app. We get alerts for all kinds of hazardous conditions, like wildfire or ice storms that allow us to prepare and evacuate if needed. When traveling, the app has alerted us to tornadoes and hailstorms so we could find shelter rather than drive into danger.

Not a bad thing. The new study was conducted at an annual cost estimate for each state of Massachusetts by an international consortium that has a combined annual income and income from about one in three people who have received a job at least one day each month.

Educational and helpful. This app makes us feel safe and has quizzes to train your brain and prepare you the event of an EMERGENCY. This app also guides you to learning first aide. This app has a siren to warn your family of severe weather. After a severe storm there is an “I’m Safe” signal that your location is clear of storms. Congrats on a great app .

Disappointing. Not nearly as good as Tornado was. My phone is blowing up with heat warnings which I can’t seem to turn off. I already know it’s hot and to hydrate 🙄. All I really want is tornado warnings but it gives them for the whole county instead of being able to narrow it down to say a ten mile radius. And there are warnings for lots of things I’m not worried about.

Incorrect Alerts?. Since downloading this I am getting alerts for things that are not even occurring. For example, there is a NWS bulletin that there is a winter storm warning for my home, then I get a message that says snowfall has stopped. My home is not even in any area of snow fall and is bone dry at home. Can't rely on something that is not providing correct information.

Now only in Spanish apparently. Seemed to work fine for several months, but ever since the latest upgrade two months ago it will now only open in Spanish. I have deleted it from my iPhone and downloaded and reinstalled a couple of times to no avail. Unfortunately, I do not read Spanish so the app does me no good.

Cannot Delete Completely. I loved the individual catastrophe apps. Thought this one would be just as helpful. WRONG- it continually screams alerts even after you shut them down. When I went back to see why I was still getting alerts, all of the toggles were set back to “on”. I deleted the app and STILL get alerts. It has wormed its way into my phone. I will alert Apple of a possible intrusion.

What are you thinking?. This app is supposed to be for emergency warnings but it is not intuitive and has multiple layers that take too much time to setup if you can even find the levels required to get anything done. Hope it works when it should although I doubt it. It’s a hopeless mess. This is what happens when the only ones involved with the interface are techies.

Annoying. Nice to have notification but annoying when it keeps going off . Needs to have notifications that just come up on the screen or a button to silence but still get notifications

So far so good. The only issue I have with this app so far is there is no way to share an alert with someone that it may be eminent to. The Tornado and Hurricane apps that this one is replacing allowed me to do that. We need to be able to share the threats with those loved ones who may not be aware and simply do not have the capability to have this app.

Horrible. This app doesn’t work half the time. It shows live alerts when I’m sitting at home based on my location, but no alert for my home area that it asked me to set based on address, despite the fact that they’re the same area. This app is supposed to provide some of the most important time-sensitive information I could possibly need, and it works less often than games I play. Do better.

Almost a good app. This app has a ton of potential. However it is not as good as the tornado app where I can just sent a circle around my area to watch. This is broken up by weird blocks of space. It tools some figuring out but you have to manually configure some of the features that were standard in tornado.

Incredibly helpful. This app has notified me of weather changes 6-10 hours before local news. Living in an area where hail, windstorms and flooding occur, this is incredibly helpful. It gives you an opportunity to do things ahead of time.

Confusing!. Used the previous “Tornado” app with good success. Now I’ve received a message that it is being replaced by this app. What a pain! Much more cumbersome to use. Way too much information I don’t need. Can’t see a list of my monitored locations in one place. I could go on and on. Bring back the simplicity of “Tornado” or I will likely dump this app and just use a local TV station’s weather app. Very disappointed!

WHAT HAPPENED??. I’m not sure why Red Cross did away with the previous UI. This version isn’t as user controllable as it used to be. If you looking for a great app for tornado and thunderstorm watches/warnings, Red Cross has another “Tornado” app strictly for those two occurrences… it’s exactly like this app used to be but condensed down to tornado and thunderstorms only which works well for me out here on the yellow brick road🌪🏡👠🧹

Tornado app was better. App is ok but the alert area is the entire county. I live in a huge county and don’t want alerts in the middle of the night for a threat that is miles away and in no way affects me. The tornado app let me adjust the alert map to only the area I cared about. I deleted the new Emergency app. More annoying alerts than relevant ones.

WAS ok.... ... until this latest update. The programmers clearly took over with no forethought or oversight as to what is actually needed in an emergency. First and foremost: SIMPLICITY. Fewer taps is better. Less BUSY is better. Less clutter is better- if I have this app, I already know how to prepare! Get rid of that crap, or AT THE VERY LEAST, let me! Also, how do I delete alerts I've already read??? I shouldn't have ask. I will be moving on unless these issues are addressed in short order...

I liked the other app. I just don’t feel like this app is working! I received warnings from other weather apps but not this one… sadly, I had shared this one based mostly on the tornado app ! Please fix this soon or I’m taking it off! By the way- Why does this app not responding to my set up??? Agh! This is supposed to be an actual important app!!!

Annoying endless notifications. They need to do something about this. Every notification is not endlessly critical and should not been over and over again even after you dismiss it. The rest seems to be fine. Wish it was a global Emergency App. Would help when traveling

About 10 minutes late for Earthquake warning. We had a 4.7 Earthquake wake us up at 2:51 am in WA this morning. It was strong enough to wake to shake the house big time. With a strong aftershock. About 10 minutes later we got the Alert from this app. The primary use case of this app is to warn of an emergency so we can take action before it hits us and it failed. I realize it probably didn’t receive its data in time due to other 3 rd party systems. But the bottlenecks need to be identified and fixed. That’s what the apps main value is and is advertised as.

What Happened?!?. This app used to be awesome. There wasn’t a limit on how many areas I could monitor. I used to be able to monitor very specific areas and attach contact info of the people I knew who lived in these areas. NOW, I can only monitor 5 general areas, no contacts, the alerts don’t work. It’s like what’s the point? Why is this app even taking up real estate on my devices? Please roll back two or three years to what this app used to be. I get better info from the standard weather app at this point.

Cries wolf too often. The entire west coast is rated as having “fire weather” which means the app goes off repeatedly all day and all night. There isn’t an actual fire however just the potential. You can’t shut it off and I’m at the point of deleting the app because I don’t need to be woken up four to five times a night by and app telling me it’s hot out.

Great Application. This is a great app. It keeps me informed abt oncoming and current severe weather situations, and allows me to keep in touch with my family and friends. I love that it shows a weather radar and also if needed lists shelters I can go to in an emergency.

Notifications. I miss the tornado app, it at least told me even there was a thunderstorm warning and or watch, and tornado watches, this one hasn’t given me a single notification of anything, been having severe thunderstorm warnings and heat advisory’s/ warnings, and not a single notification, even have everything turned on, than gifs AccuWeather works.

No Alerts. Like several other’s reviews, I’m not getting alerts. I’m in the tech industry and definitely understand how to ensure notifications are on and the various alert settings. The developers fir this app have a significant bug. Also, this version/application is not nearly as intuitive as the Hurricane and Earthquake apps are. I hope ta’ll can get this fixed … ya know since it is hurricane season.

Tornado warning alarm. To live in a rural area but still have a tornado warning siren sound from this app on my phone when the National weather service issues a tornado warning in my area is priceless and potentially lifesaving. Thank you!

Incessant warnings on the same issue.. This app is driving me crazy. The number of the same warnings for the same storm, is nuts. If you want to report a hazardously low temperature condition for multiple days, then lead with the temperature, not the wind chill. Report the wind chill at the end of the notice. Limit the number of alerts for the same storm to the beginning of the event, to the projected end. If it extends past the original, then issue another alert.

Alerts need better choices. I finally had to delete the app due to ridiculous alerts that were repetitive. A single alert, for your radius, by EVENT, should be all that’s needed, and then choose additional if you want more detailed ones. Not possible. I’ve given feedback already, sometime ago, but so far not resolved: if you opt in for text alerts, the text needs to include the region name (it doesn’t say at all). Many people monitor more than one location. You have no idea for where it is alerting.

Disappointed. I have alerts set for Texas and Hawai’i - everyday I get alerts regarding the heat in Texas. In recent days there have been TWO wildfires in Hawai’i. One of which negatively impacted the water quality in Maui. I have received ZERO alerts for anything going on in Hawai’i. This needs to change immediately. Disaster areas should be top priority for alerting people with safety procautions. I’m never disappointed and a concerned citizen living in these areas.

Flawed basically useless. The old tornado app from these guys was forcibly retired. That app had annoying constant alerts with no way to acknowledge and mute repeated alerts. For a while i had both apps. This app never sends any alerts i can open it and see them but the whole point is to help you prepare. So this is useless. Iphone 13 max plus & ios 16.6 so the issues are in the app itself. Shame the old app at least had purpose.

KEEP YOUR POLITICAL STATEMENTS TO YOURSELF!. “CLIMATE CHANGE CAUSES MORE EXTREME WEATHER!” Try keeping your obvious political statements and agenda to yourself! You IDIOT! I think most people are just sick and tired of everything being political, and then pushing it on everyone and shoving it down their throat! Your opening headline is so obvious! So try keeping your stupid politically motivated statement to yourself, and just stick with improving your app! Based on your poor reviews, you need to focus on improving the app, NOT YOUR POLITICAL AGENDA!!

Fix the radius!. Like others, I was forced to this app because the Tornado app was end of life. This app is not a good replacement. Firstly, having notifications by county is silly. We live right on the border of a county so do not expect alerts from 100s of miles north. It should be set from a radius of your home location. Secondly, and this is probably the most disappointing, the app is reporting “no alerts found” even though at this very moment we are in the middle of a *huge* thunderstorm.

Somewhat effective. VERY timely tornado warnings. Mediocre severe storm watch notifications. Poor areal notification for portions of state during winter storm warning. Some links within the app become an endless loop, never reaching the desired digital connection. ARC should find some computer-savvy app users to thoroughly test the app so it’s truly life-saving.

Constantly improving. This product goes above and beyond just monitoring it connects ,alerts and updates friends and family plus provides emergency information to community .

Incessant nagging about Critical Aerts. The app really wants you to enable Critical Alerts, and will constantly remind you they are off. I am confident I do not want Critical Alerts on. My phone blaring at 3am because a hurricane was detected hundreds of miles away is going to make me less able to respond to that threat, not better prepared for it. I wish the app would respect my choice. Forcing useless Critical Alerts on people waters down the utility of the entire feature.

To many alerts for same thing. Over all this works fine but I don’t need a alert to tell me the alert as expired or a alert that tells me the storm that caused the alert has moved on or a alert that tell me a severe rain storm is going to cause flash flood. Within 30 min I received 7 alerts about the status of the same storm cell. So frequent I disabled the alerts ....... so a program to alert that the alerts are disabled ...... see the problem?

What is going on?. This is the second company that has released an update that ruined an app. Kroger ruined the Harris Teeter app and now the Red Cross is replacing the great Tornado app with this. An excellent way to get lots of people to delete an app from their devices. I stopped shopping at Harris Teeter but the Red Cross is a national institution and should be rethinking how it has handled this merging of all its apps. I will stick with the Tornado app until it finally stops working then I’ll invest in a NOAA radio.

Love The App! But It’s Missing One Feature.. I Love This App For Monitoring Weather Alerts And Feeling Safe Knowing As Soon As One Is Issued I’m Alerted About It! But I Recently Brought An Apple Watch Ultra With Cellular Built In And In The Event I Leave My Phone Behind I Have No Way Of Getting The Alerts Or Being To Check To See What Alerts Are Issued Even At A Glance.

American Red Cross Emergency Alerts. This application is a simple yet effective way to stay on top of potential hazardous situations that may affect you or your loved ones. The app makes it easy to set locations and the radius in which you would like to monitor around these set pinpoints. The app also provides useful information regarding emergencies in how to handle them including finding shelters and making an emergency family plan.

No longer useful. This app used to have the ability to set locations with certain people to notify or check in on them in case of harsh weather. Now this app only gives you locations and does no longer allow you to notify those people in those locations. I have received the same message multiple times in a day. This becomes very annoying.

The Emergency App is inferior to the retired Tornado app. The retired Tornado app was superior to this Emergency app regarding alerts for locations. It alerts for some locations, i.e. work location, but not others in the same area that are under the same weather conditions/warnings (home location). I am registered weather spotter who is very disappointed and will be looking for another app that is more accurate and reliable.

Poorly organized. There are too many screens and too many options. I wanted something simple that would alert me to severe weather in my area. It took me several minutes just to find the screen where I could select the alerts I’m interested in. I still haven’t found the “overlays” mentioned in the description. Too comprehensive equals not useful.