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Other UK Emergency Alerts
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No she’s on Vodafone. I had a second alert myself yesterday at about 5pm. I’m on EE.
Yeah, I agree with this being available locally and for lost child alerts. It can be deployed locally. If you are interested in influencing the decision the government have a survey up with a few options for where you think it should be deployed and who should be able to use it (police, yep, local government, 🤔): https://surveys.publishing.service.gov.uk/s/a7xzxq
I got the alert, although a friend in the same room got it at 14:59, which a fair number of people seem to have got it at,
I got the alert, although a friend in the same room got it at 14:59, which a fair number of people seem to have got it at,
Interesting - and odd!
I've not read of many/any other duplicate alert issues - there might be loads but I've not noticed.
Emergency Red Alert , Mrs Smith in Basildon has a sore throat , Government announces total Lockdown of everything forever
I'd completely missed that.
As with most surveys, some questions are pretty impossible to answer. Esp. the Q about how you'd react. Surely it all depends on what the message says! Nuclear war versus possible flood 50 miles away.
Can imagine Mrs Trellis from North Wales - they got it out just in time.
ha maybe we could use it for reporting benefit cheats.. Mr smith who is meant to be bed bound has just been cutting his grass!
Do you people really expect the government to use something like this to help the public? They are far more likely going to use it to spread fear porn as usual. If I couldn’t opt out, my phone would now be in the dustbin.
Whatever you believe about the government's intent, I for one would want to KNOW that they are using this alert system. Then I can ignore or whatever else. Turning it off means you won't know.
The lack of mirroring to Apple Watches that aren't cellular does seem an omission - if you left your phone in another room you could easily miss the alert, so watches in range of the phone would seem to make sense.
That's not how they are used in NYC at least and I bet they won't be used for that in the UK. The types of things that get sent are curfews (during the riots in 2020), notice of local terrorist attacks etc. In other words, stuff you really need to know to avoid harm so people pay attention to them.
Alert came through to my iPhone and Apple Watch - cellular is active on my AW so assume it was mirrored like some other OPs here.
Don’t know about anyone else but this doesn’t bother me in the slightest. Having a message come through over something that could either save someone’s life or reunite them with their missing child is great.
Don’t know about anyone else but this doesn’t bother me in the slightest. Having a message come through over something that could either save someone’s life or reunite them with their missing child is great.
Yes, for my government. Don't know about yours. The few seconds warning of a pending earthquake could save your life.
My iPhone was in another room at the time of the alert. It came though on my Apple Watch, very loudly. I got another alert on my Apple Watch about 20 minutes later.
That appears to be the issue.
Mine isn't - GPS only.
I suspect that even without a SIM, the alert system can trigger cellular watches. Same fundamentals as SIM-less emergency calls.
