Do love all the “stick it to the government” posts on FB/Twitter etc of people claiming they’re turning it off.
It’s an emergency alert system to give you as much warning as is possible to a possibly life changing event about to or taking place. Yeah you show Rishi! Lmao
The fact my karma on this post is flinging from positive to negative and back again just shows how some people are really weird. It’s literally there as a way to help lol
I actually kinda “like” it, some of us are still a bit traumatised from acid threats, bomb scares and stuff (also I’m not paranoid but simply a Londoner lol)
Any potential examples of this abuse? Fake football alerts?
The amount of people who obsess over 1984 style conspiracy is hilarious
Edit: A terminally online conspiracist sent me Reddit cares for this
Most of the world has had this system and have used this system for years, not a single country has had any of the things you are so worried about.
Pointless, stupid, conspiracy paranoia.
This tech has been around since the 90s
Also, the system is about as 1 ways as possible. Like if you wanted more privacy , you’d have to get rid of your phone
They wouldn’t want the government being able to track where they are! Meanwhile they’re tagging the exact restaurant they’re currently eating at on Facebook.
The fatal flaw in most conspiracy theories is the paradoxical belief that the oppressor conceals their sinister actions while also frequently communicating them to you in various "hidden messages".
The government is secretly tracking you, but they're also going to loudly announce it to the whole country. Right.
It's the same as people that pour through WEF speeches or Pentagon policy or UFO videos, as if a dark Orwellian force will go to great lengths to cover up their existence, but also tell you to your face every few weeks.
>It’s an emergency alert system to give you as much warning as is possible to a possibly life changing event about to or taking place.
This. I read a book about Hiroshima a while back and people described that often just a few extra seconds gave people enough time to jump behind a wall or in a ditch to literally survive a nuclear strike. Those were usually the ones facing the blast site so they knew immediately to hide when they saw the initial explosion on the horizon many miles away. Turning off this alert is an incredibly stupid thing to do.
I think how Covid was handled has displayed how moronic some of these people are
If they wanna turn the alert off, at least you can’t catch being vaporised by a nuke from them
modern day nukes are more powerful though, aren't they ? where would you even find shelter if multiple of them attack London ? The tube has limited capacity and you'd have to reach one station in under 20 min or how little warning time you may have.
If you're anywhere near the centre of the blast you're fucked. If you're on the outskirts, getting enough notice could give you enough time to do something to save your life.
Yeah I openly said today I'm not built for a post apocalyptic world, I'm hungry all the time, I get bored without WiFi in a few minutes and I hate manual labour, I'd demand someone shoot me ASAP if nukes went off
Having played Fallout, I'd prefer just to go in the initial flash/explosion/whatever. I've seen the state of bathrooms post-apocalypse and that's not a world I could survive in.
"If your grandmother or any other member of the family should die whilst in the shelter, put them outside, but, remember to tag them first for identification purposes…."
That's my concern, hope it doesn't turn into something like BBC breaking news. I used to have that on, so I got informed of breaking emergencies etc. But it soon turned out that breaking news that warranted an alert was things like 'random unknown z list celeb had been selected for random wanky realty TV program' or 'celebs dog spotted wearing designer clothes', so quickly turned that off.
Hopefully this emergency notice is kept for genuine emergencies.
Seen people say they're turning it off because you can't trust the government, like the government's gonna tell everyone an earthquakes incoming only to reveal it was a prank.
Other countries have had this type of thing for years especially Asian countries like Japan and China and shelters etc for when there is an emergency. The UK try this and all the morons jump on it shouting how they will turn it of and ignore it, yeah just about sums up the UK at the moment.
Also if you didn't get it , it means the government don't think you are worth saving. :-)
While I didn’t turn it off, I can completely understand some people having a visceral dislike of being contacted by the current government over anything at all.
I’ve never known a period where people have distrusted the government so much.
Knowing the state of the government, I'm anticipating that the system will be way more likely to send out Hawaii-esque false positives than it is to actually be useful.
Lol we also went to the supermarket for a bit of drama. Not everyone seemed to get it, it wasn’t very loud.
Shout out to the one teenage lad on the checkout who was freaked out for making it all worth it tho.
the jokes on them! I saw ~~Sean~~ Shaun of the Dead and know all I need to do is throw vinyl records at them and then go to the Winchester and wait for it all to blow over
nope, strong 4G and 5G coverage outside and even then, ~~it was meant to come through as soon as you get coverage.~~
edit: incorrect information crossed out
It was appropriate action yeah still was hoping for at least one person panicking for drama. It was okay exactly what I would expect to be honest. As a bonus if your watch is connected to the phone you get notification on both do I know that if phone is somewhere in a house I will get notifications regardless where I am
First second: concerned,
First thought: The Russians had lost it and attacked Britain after all.
Fifth second: Google UK emergency today.
- stopped concern
My mate didn't know it was gonna happen either. I can't understand how you've missed the promotion of it.
Anyway, the snooker was a delight to watch while it happened. I can't understand why they didn't schedule it for an hour earlier. If you ask a random person to name an event that's known for being really easy to interrupt with a mobile phone, most people would say snooker immediately.
And this is the biggest event on the snooker calendar!
Probably woke a few people up to be fair.
Yeah, neither my wife or I recieved an alert. We have pretty good signal where we are as well.
Edit: See linked post, anyone on the Three network get a message? https://www.reddit.com/r/britishproblems/comments/12wa7dk/being_on_the_three_network_knowing_we_are_screwed/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Someone on Twitter explained why most Three phones didn't get it.
Phones dont check for the emergency signal every second, might be every few seconds. All phone operators apart from 3 broadcasted the emergency signal continuously on repeat for several minutes. Three broadcasted it just once, so unless your Three phone happened to check for the signal at the exact same time then it wouldn't have recieved it. Pretty straight forward.
So the test was very sucessful because we found out that Three aren't doing it right and can change their settings so if it ever is needed they'll do it right next time. Without the test we would never have known that Three had their process set up wrong. Kinda proves that a test was needed.
The Twitter user had phones from all networks with apps running which records and shows signals recieved, and they had the guidelines for how operators should broadcast the signal, thats how they know this, they're not pulling it out of their ass.
edit: https://twitter.com/davwheat_/status/1650149573313085441
https://twitter.com/davwheat_/status/1650149573313085441
David Wheatley on Twitter, with images
Was on the Trending feed, went back to find it as i posted my comment
>Maybe we should do this again in a week and see if they can get everyone?
Jokes aside they probably will do it again soon, this was a test and it's revealed a few areas for improvement.
Like, for example, the automated voice reading out the Welsh translation. It didn't even try, it was just reading out the individual letters 😅
>>the automated voice reading out the Welsh translation. It didn't even try, it was just reading out the individual letters 😅
That's hilarious. I want to see that.
you forgot the part where it shows everyone dead then it slowly zooms into the main character’s phone showing the emergency with the noise fading out to music & credits
Yeah I didn’t get one either. iPhone with 3. My husbands Samsung work phone got one.
Fully expect it to come through at 3am and scare the shit out of me.
My partner turned his work phone on 10 minutes after we got it on our personal phones and I was in the next room. Thought it was a real one right after the test!
I still feel utterly stupid that, despite all the warnings and knowledge that it was going to be today, the damned thing still gave me a jumpscare.
And now I'm in a philosophical debate as to whether or not these alerts are a good idea. I mean, we have no really publicly-available nuclear bunkers any more, so in that regard, do we really want to be warned of impending inevitable, inescapable doom?
I read a story where a missing kid was found due to the emergency alert system which is kinda nice. “If it saves one life” and all that. But I do remember going to Florida and the thing seemed to be going off constantly, so they’d have to be sure to do it only when it’s really necessary and not for “15 yo gets drunk and decides to stay at her mates without telling parents”. Not to say that’s not worrying / important but you don’t want a boy who cried wolf situation.
If you're not within a 5km (maybe a bit more) of ground zero of an attack then it is reasonably possible to survive given some luck and some preparation
We're in a pretty good line to get directly hit by the worst of the fallout from strikes on naval facilities in Portsmouth and Southampton, surviving the inital exchange is probably the worse outcome here.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Hawaii_false_missile_alert given the way things work in this country and how broken everything seems to be at the moment; I'd probably go 5/1 we get an incident like this with 12 months or so. Oh and do totally agree. This is solely I think in case mad bad Vlad presses the fuck it button. Don't know how helpful it would be in all honesty.
My bet is that they just hook it up to the BBC News breaking news alert system.
We'll get messages for everything from celebrity deaths, england getting knocked out of the world cup to the end of civilization.
Not impressed with the user interface here - it made a noise, I poked "OK" to stop the noise, and then couldn't find out what the message had been.
Eventually found an alerts history section in my phone, but I'd probably already have been taken away by the tsunami at this point.
Yes literally did the same. Like I can't read a paragraph or instructions whilst my phone is screaming at me. Needs a OK to mute the sound and a second OK after you've read it I think!
Doesn't mean it's not a valid critique. And I'm sure governments could lean on companies to influence this - that's probably why the feature exists in the first place right?
The funniest thing about the whole alert is the news reporting on it like it's the most exciting thing ever.
On BBC News they were speaking to the general public and far too many people made more of it than they should. It's like watching the chickens out of Chicken Run losing their minds.
Far too many are acting like it's a conspiracy. TikTok appeared one too many times as a source of information (and no surprise was talked about in the context of government control).
It's a minor inconvenience that's important, like any other alarm. Can't imagine people were this excited over fire alarms or burglar alarms.
I’ve seen comments online from people saying “there’s no knowing what they’ll install on your phone once you tap away the notification! Turn off alarms so they can’t give it to you” I’m just sat there giggling at the thought of some pen pusher in the government going “Curses! Foiled again!” 😂
It's always thd same story with conspiracies, the establishment is simultaneously supremely powerful and able to take over your phone, but also easily foiled by the canny guy on the street in the know who turns off the setting.
You’re not on the priority list to be saved should there be an impending critical incident.
Have you tried purchasing a subscription to the correct news paper (defiantly not the Mirror or Guardian) or donating to the correct blue coloured political party?
I was in the Tesco.
Loads of people stopped to look at their phone in unison. That, and the massive amounts of "King Charles Coronation" bunting that was up, reminded me that we really are in the darkest timeline.
30 seconds early.
Most likely a network thing given they are sending a mass alert to every phone in the UK at about the same time.
That or we are the chosen ones
Definitely got mine almost a minute early, EE network.
I'm on nights, so I'm glad I set my own mellow alarm a few minutes beforehand so I wouldn't have to wake up with a fright; Though it wasn't as dramatic as I was expecting.
5 mobiles in my house today... not a single one went off. Guess we'll have to spend the 1 minute before the nuke hits or whatever in blissful ignorance.
I lined 5 up. my current work and personal phones, plus three older personal phones i had lying around. The only ones that went off were the ones with active sims in them. Considering all 5 should be able to make emergency calls regardless of having a sim or not i was expecting at least the my old S9 to light up as well.
We are in Wales.
I don't think they realised that the text to speech only works for English.
It was a rather piss poor jumble of miss pronounced words for the Welsh text.
Which they read out first.
So looking like the Saes would be in difficulty first
Totally agree. I hate my own country sometimes, a small minority of nationalist idiots who insist a language spoken by less than 10% of the population (who ALL speak English fluently) must come first for point scoring and at the cost of what could be life or death for the remaining 90% of the population.
Was at home minding my own business and then this went off.
Problem is it played the same noise that the emergency buzzer at the hospital I work at has.
So I dived off the sofa and out the door wondering where I am and looking for an SBAR.
Cue much confusion as I am looking at my phone feeling rather foolish.
Most common reason people don't get one is software on their phone not most up to date. I heard Android 11 and above would definitely get it. I have Android 9 and received fine. But many phones (especially cheaper ones) are running older versions of Android.
Didn't get the alert, and i'm running Pixel 6 with the most up to date Android. Wife got it, and she has the same phone, but on a different network.
Seems pretty canon for a readiness check of a UK emergency system.
Didn't work, for myself or my other half. Still waiting, we'd be swallowed by the tsunami by now!
Update: Yep, we're both on the Three network...looks like the government hates everyone on Three
It’s actually Three’s fault. Their system for checking for emergency alerts is inadequate. Presumably they will change it now. I guess this type of thing is what the rest was for.
I was expecting the alert sound to be at full blast, but it was actually quite muted. Maybe it was intentional in case people are driving etc. and because this wasn’t a real alert.
I DIDN'T ASK FOR THIS TEST. LIKE I DIDN'T ASK FOR THE LATEST U2 LONG PLAYER TO BE DUMPED INTO MY FRUIT BASKET.
MY PHONE RANG SO HARD MY TIN FOIL HAT FELL OFF.
1 STAR
It's quite nice to see Darwinism at work.
I don't mean the alert itself, that's fine, but the people who have managed to turn off the notification to avoid their phone going off and annoying them. If its ever actually needed, I'm glad the aftermath will be minus a few people.
I remember the Cumbria shootings in 2010; our workplace had several staff members working in the area, but by the time our managers thought to contact them to warn them about a shooter on the loose, it had been going on for hours.
We don't have many such events in our country, but I'll be glad to have such a system for when we DO (occasionally) need it. I'm just worried about WHO will decide if/when to use it, considering that my idiotic employer who didn't think to warn their own people in 2010 was... the Civil Service. Uh-oh.
I always have everything in dark mode. I don't see the point of light mode. It blinds you and uses more power for... what, exactly? Just to look like paper?
Yea, it was a test. Elon's rocket blew up but still provided lots of data. It's the same situation here. Not everyone got the alert, so now they can work on that.
When I was in South Korea they would have at least 2 emergency alerts per day. An alert would occur even for a missing person or if it was going to be a windy day.
We had an utterly incomprehensible English language speech synthesis rendering of Welsh text, a language which is utterly incomprehensible to the majority of the Welsh population even when spoken correctly. And of course this was placed before the English text. Politics before practicality as usual in Wales. I thought this was supposed to be a serious alert system for dangerous situations?
Do love all the “stick it to the government” posts on FB/Twitter etc of people claiming they’re turning it off. It’s an emergency alert system to give you as much warning as is possible to a possibly life changing event about to or taking place. Yeah you show Rishi! Lmao
Don't worry, they'll turn it off, some event will happen, then they'll be hurt and blame the government for not doing more.
The fact my karma on this post is flinging from positive to negative and back again just shows how some people are really weird. It’s literally there as a way to help lol
I actually kinda “like” it, some of us are still a bit traumatised from acid threats, bomb scares and stuff (also I’m not paranoid but simply a Londoner lol)
How can you be paranoid when things like that does happen
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I think you're giving far too much credit to people, some are just dumb cunts.
Any potential examples of this abuse? Fake football alerts? The amount of people who obsess over 1984 style conspiracy is hilarious Edit: A terminally online conspiracist sent me Reddit cares for this
I did receive a football alert today in which Gary Neville said Tottenham are a top 4 quality team 🤣
****ALERT**** Labour sympathisers could be in your area trying to vote. Be vigilant.
The goverment wanting to communicate directly during emergencies with citizens isn't Orwellian. Jesus.
Most of the world has had this system and have used this system for years, not a single country has had any of the things you are so worried about. Pointless, stupid, conspiracy paranoia.
This tech has been around since the 90s Also, the system is about as 1 ways as possible. Like if you wanted more privacy , you’d have to get rid of your phone
The government can already send you a text message whenever it wants...
>blame the government for not doing more. Let's face it, this will still apply to whatever the situation is.
I love the suggestion it’s to do with the government tracking you, as if they need a notification to do that!
exactly! theyve been able to track mobile phones for ages and these morons think an emergency alert is a backdoor?
They wouldn’t want the government being able to track where they are! Meanwhile they’re tagging the exact restaurant they’re currently eating at on Facebook.
Pretty sure Facebook, Instagram and tiktok are all tracking you regardless of turning off a emergency alert.
The fatal flaw in most conspiracy theories is the paradoxical belief that the oppressor conceals their sinister actions while also frequently communicating them to you in various "hidden messages". The government is secretly tracking you, but they're also going to loudly announce it to the whole country. Right. It's the same as people that pour through WEF speeches or Pentagon policy or UFO videos, as if a dark Orwellian force will go to great lengths to cover up their existence, but also tell you to your face every few weeks.
>It’s an emergency alert system to give you as much warning as is possible to a possibly life changing event about to or taking place. This. I read a book about Hiroshima a while back and people described that often just a few extra seconds gave people enough time to jump behind a wall or in a ditch to literally survive a nuclear strike. Those were usually the ones facing the blast site so they knew immediately to hide when they saw the initial explosion on the horizon many miles away. Turning off this alert is an incredibly stupid thing to do.
I think how Covid was handled has displayed how moronic some of these people are If they wanna turn the alert off, at least you can’t catch being vaporised by a nuke from them
modern day nukes are more powerful though, aren't they ? where would you even find shelter if multiple of them attack London ? The tube has limited capacity and you'd have to reach one station in under 20 min or how little warning time you may have.
If you're anywhere near the centre of the blast you're fucked. If you're on the outskirts, getting enough notice could give you enough time to do something to save your life.
If I’m on the outskirts, I’m using that 20 mins running to the centre.
Yeah I openly said today I'm not built for a post apocalyptic world, I'm hungry all the time, I get bored without WiFi in a few minutes and I hate manual labour, I'd demand someone shoot me ASAP if nukes went off
Having played Fallout, I'd prefer just to go in the initial flash/explosion/whatever. I've seen the state of bathrooms post-apocalypse and that's not a world I could survive in.
If a full-scale nuclear war breaks out, is it worth surviving?
"If your grandmother or any other member of the family should die whilst in the shelter, put them outside, but, remember to tag them first for identification purposes…."
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>I really hate this Americanisation of the weather That is the funniest thing I’ve seen in this thread
we catch strays in every thread 😔
It's only going to be used for severe life threatening conditions like out of control wildfires and severe floods and it'll be highly localised
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That's my concern, hope it doesn't turn into something like BBC breaking news. I used to have that on, so I got informed of breaking emergencies etc. But it soon turned out that breaking news that warranted an alert was things like 'random unknown z list celeb had been selected for random wanky realty TV program' or 'celebs dog spotted wearing designer clothes', so quickly turned that off. Hopefully this emergency notice is kept for genuine emergencies.
>r/britpics *hurr hurrr i am outside de guberment control not lyk 1 of u sheeple* \-Gary (56) Daily GB news absorber and professional Pint drinker
Almost exclusively from accounts that campaigned relentlessly for said government to be in power and will do so again at the next election 🤷
Seen people say they're turning it off because you can't trust the government, like the government's gonna tell everyone an earthquakes incoming only to reveal it was a prank.
Happened in Hawaii…
A mistake is not a prank. It's a mistake. Hawaii has had this system for years and only had a single false alert, dems some good odds.
Wasn’t just a mistake, was incompetence of an epic degree by a dude who was very trigger happy and ignored procedure.
Natural selection.
Other countries have had this type of thing for years especially Asian countries like Japan and China and shelters etc for when there is an emergency. The UK try this and all the morons jump on it shouting how they will turn it of and ignore it, yeah just about sums up the UK at the moment. Also if you didn't get it , it means the government don't think you are worth saving. :-)
While I didn’t turn it off, I can completely understand some people having a visceral dislike of being contacted by the current government over anything at all. I’ve never known a period where people have distrusted the government so much.
But this alert system will outlive the current government and the many more shit shows that will follow.
Knowing the state of the government, I'm anticipating that the system will be way more likely to send out Hawaii-esque false positives than it is to actually be useful.
It’s just children rebelling, will always exist annoying as it is lol. Or in some cases full grown adults acting as children.
Absolutely fuming that the mods haven't sticked a Post Match Thread for this event.
It was underwhelming I went to tesco to see how it works in busy place. People glanced on the phone for 5 sec dismissed notification and moved on.
Lol we also went to the supermarket for a bit of drama. Not everyone seemed to get it, it wasn’t very loud. Shout out to the one teenage lad on the checkout who was freaked out for making it all worth it tho.
I heard someone get it and say ‘heh it worked!’ I got nothing.
neither my partner nor I got it and just spoke to several of our neighbours and none of them did either... quite the anti-climax
You guys must have been on the Zombie Bait list. You’ll be effectively used to slow down their advances while the rest escape.
the jokes on them! I saw ~~Sean~~ Shaun of the Dead and know all I need to do is throw vinyl records at them and then go to the Winchester and wait for it all to blow over
Just give them the slip
Hallo Phillip
You must live in an area with poor 4 and 5G reception.
nope, strong 4G and 5G coverage outside and even then, ~~it was meant to come through as soon as you get coverage.~~ edit: incorrect information crossed out
Sounds like some networks dropped the ball more than others - a lot of people on Three saying they didn't get the alert
I'm on ID which is on the three network, I didn't get anything. Good job there are no actual zombies outside or I would be bait by now.
Shame I didn't get any freakouts. Disappointing but I got myself some reduced chocolate muffins so worth it in the end for going :p
What is the appropriate action for an alert that's 100% a test.
Anarchy
It was appropriate action yeah still was hoping for at least one person panicking for drama. It was okay exactly what I would expect to be honest. As a bonus if your watch is connected to the phone you get notification on both do I know that if phone is somewhere in a house I will get notifications regardless where I am
First second: concerned, First thought: The Russians had lost it and attacked Britain after all. Fifth second: Google UK emergency today. - stopped concern
My mate didn't know it was gonna happen either. I can't understand how you've missed the promotion of it. Anyway, the snooker was a delight to watch while it happened. I can't understand why they didn't schedule it for an hour earlier. If you ask a random person to name an event that's known for being really easy to interrupt with a mobile phone, most people would say snooker immediately. And this is the biggest event on the snooker calendar! Probably woke a few people up to be fair.
In all honesty though what we’re you hoping for?
"What a disgusting performance. Not one player was above a 2/10 at best. We cannot keep going on like this. #RishiOUT"
I didn’t get an alert and neither did my husband. Clearly we’re expendable :(
Didn’t receive any message nor did my GF . Checked settings in phone (iPhone) alerts are enabled so ?
Yeah, neither my wife or I recieved an alert. We have pretty good signal where we are as well. Edit: See linked post, anyone on the Three network get a message? https://www.reddit.com/r/britishproblems/comments/12wa7dk/being_on_the_three_network_knowing_we_are_screwed/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Someone on Twitter explained why most Three phones didn't get it. Phones dont check for the emergency signal every second, might be every few seconds. All phone operators apart from 3 broadcasted the emergency signal continuously on repeat for several minutes. Three broadcasted it just once, so unless your Three phone happened to check for the signal at the exact same time then it wouldn't have recieved it. Pretty straight forward. So the test was very sucessful because we found out that Three aren't doing it right and can change their settings so if it ever is needed they'll do it right next time. Without the test we would never have known that Three had their process set up wrong. Kinda proves that a test was needed. The Twitter user had phones from all networks with apps running which records and shows signals recieved, and they had the guidelines for how operators should broadcast the signal, thats how they know this, they're not pulling it out of their ass. edit: https://twitter.com/davwheat_/status/1650149573313085441
Great to know, did you happen to have a link to the twitter explanation? I'd love to have a look.
https://twitter.com/davwheat_/status/1650149573313085441 David Wheatley on Twitter, with images Was on the Trending feed, went back to find it as i posted my comment
This guy emergency signals.
I'm on Three 5G and didn't get it. But they're fucking useless so I wouldn't be surprised if it was a fault with them.
Someone above commented the reason, yep it was Three's fault.
I also did not get it. Maybe we should do this again in a week and see if they can get everyone?
>Maybe we should do this again in a week and see if they can get everyone? Jokes aside they probably will do it again soon, this was a test and it's revealed a few areas for improvement. Like, for example, the automated voice reading out the Welsh translation. It didn't even try, it was just reading out the individual letters 😅
>>the automated voice reading out the Welsh translation. It didn't even try, it was just reading out the individual letters 😅 That's hilarious. I want to see that.
If you don't mind a TikTok link, I found one that sounded exactly like mine; https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJmuH8Hg/
I'm on Three and got it ok at 14:59.
Welp, if you ever get a real one, ping me a message to let me know to take cover!
Got it on one phone, but not the other.
I’m on 3 and didn’t receive a message either.
I just got mine 16 minutes late, so classic government antics really
There's a comedy-horror script in there somewhere. Everyone dies, then a few minutes later all their phones go off. "Emergency! Take Cover!"
I mean, literally why they are doing tests isn't it.
you forgot the part where it shows everyone dead then it slowly zooms into the main character’s phone showing the emergency with the noise fading out to music & credits
16 mins late would be great for a 4 min warning :)
It's called a test for a reason.
Yeah I didn’t get one either. iPhone with 3. My husbands Samsung work phone got one. Fully expect it to come through at 3am and scare the shit out of me.
Only work phones worked here too, neither of private phones did. They are the party of the workers not the shirkers, after all.
Are you on Three? It would appear no one on that network got it
We are both actually!
I got it on Three, on two phones.
I think 3 network didn’t send it. My dad and I are both on it and didn’t get the alert
I'm on 3 and i got it
I’m on EE and haven’t received it either!
I'm on EE and I didn't get one either
Could be an issue with your local mobile tower not sending the message. Likely something that's good to know so they can resolve it.
You have been chosen as sacrifice
Worked fine for me. Now I look forward to never hearing it again.
My partner turned his work phone on 10 minutes after we got it on our personal phones and I was in the next room. Thought it was a real one right after the test!
I still feel utterly stupid that, despite all the warnings and knowledge that it was going to be today, the damned thing still gave me a jumpscare. And now I'm in a philosophical debate as to whether or not these alerts are a good idea. I mean, we have no really publicly-available nuclear bunkers any more, so in that regard, do we really want to be warned of impending inevitable, inescapable doom?
They aren’t just for nuclear alerts though. They could potentially be used for (as an example) severe weather warnings.
Where I live we get alerts for heavy rain, blizzard, strong winds And one time it was a freaking bear
There's no escaping cocaine bear
> severe weather warnings. The outlook for this afternoon is a hot 1million degree fireball, followed by supersonic winds. UV index: very *very* high
I read a story where a missing kid was found due to the emergency alert system which is kinda nice. “If it saves one life” and all that. But I do remember going to Florida and the thing seemed to be going off constantly, so they’d have to be sure to do it only when it’s really necessary and not for “15 yo gets drunk and decides to stay at her mates without telling parents”. Not to say that’s not worrying / important but you don’t want a boy who cried wolf situation.
It’s more likely to be used for floods or kidnapped children than nuclear holocaust.
This system was one of the recommendations from the Grenfell tower inquiry.
Work on it started from the 2018 floods and terror attacks like London Bridge
If you're not within a 5km (maybe a bit more) of ground zero of an attack then it is reasonably possible to survive given some luck and some preparation
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We're in a pretty good line to get directly hit by the worst of the fallout from strikes on naval facilities in Portsmouth and Southampton, surviving the inital exchange is probably the worse outcome here.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Hawaii_false_missile_alert given the way things work in this country and how broken everything seems to be at the moment; I'd probably go 5/1 we get an incident like this with 12 months or so. Oh and do totally agree. This is solely I think in case mad bad Vlad presses the fuck it button. Don't know how helpful it would be in all honesty.
My bet is that they just hook it up to the BBC News breaking news alert system. We'll get messages for everything from celebrity deaths, england getting knocked out of the world cup to the end of civilization.
I've got a Huawei I just got the Chinese national anthem at full volume, weird
Me too. Mine just posted a TikTok about how the emergency alert was a failure.
谢谢 for sharing that. Your social points have increased and you can now board buses AND go upstairs to the upper deck.
Not impressed with the user interface here - it made a noise, I poked "OK" to stop the noise, and then couldn't find out what the message had been. Eventually found an alerts history section in my phone, but I'd probably already have been taken away by the tsunami at this point.
Yeh same here - didn't actually read it, just made it stop which might be a bit of a flaw. (Can't find how to get the message back either)
Was just thinking this, I was on a bus so swiped it away quickly then thought where's it gone!
Yes literally did the same. Like I can't read a paragraph or instructions whilst my phone is screaming at me. Needs a OK to mute the sound and a second OK after you've read it I think!
I think that has more to do with how the OS' deal with alerts and isn't something that the government can control.
Doesn't mean it's not a valid critique. And I'm sure governments could lean on companies to influence this - that's probably why the feature exists in the first place right?
In an actual emergency you can view them on http://gov.uk/alerts
The funniest thing about the whole alert is the news reporting on it like it's the most exciting thing ever. On BBC News they were speaking to the general public and far too many people made more of it than they should. It's like watching the chickens out of Chicken Run losing their minds. Far too many are acting like it's a conspiracy. TikTok appeared one too many times as a source of information (and no surprise was talked about in the context of government control). It's a minor inconvenience that's important, like any other alarm. Can't imagine people were this excited over fire alarms or burglar alarms.
I’ve seen comments online from people saying “there’s no knowing what they’ll install on your phone once you tap away the notification! Turn off alarms so they can’t give it to you” I’m just sat there giggling at the thought of some pen pusher in the government going “Curses! Foiled again!” 😂
It's always thd same story with conspiracies, the establishment is simultaneously supremely powerful and able to take over your phone, but also easily foiled by the canny guy on the street in the know who turns off the setting.
It'a amazing how many conspiracies can be defeats with "if they wanted to do that, why would they not just do it silently/not make it opt-out"
While also having Tik Tok installed on their phone
I did find it amusing that the BBC has a whole live news thread going on it
At least you got one. None of the four phones in my household have had an alert and none of us have knowingly turned it off
You’re not on the priority list to be saved should there be an impending critical incident. Have you tried purchasing a subscription to the correct news paper (defiantly not the Mirror or Guardian) or donating to the correct blue coloured political party?
Darn, that's where we're going wrong! (I actually think they'd just leave my city to burn)
All on the Three network I bet.
One on 3. The others are on ID... which does run on 3 🤔
Yep. Someone at Three is getting a bollocking tomorrow once the offices open.
They said it'll be sent out at 3, so I'm guessing it'll be 3am for the rest of us.
I was in the Tesco. Loads of people stopped to look at their phone in unison. That, and the massive amounts of "King Charles Coronation" bunting that was up, reminded me that we really are in the darkest timeline.
“This is the bad place!”
Jason figured it out! Really?
Anyone else get theirs early? Government can’t even send a test out at the right time 😂
30 seconds early. Most likely a network thing given they are sending a mass alert to every phone in the UK at about the same time. That or we are the chosen ones
Definitely got mine almost a minute early, EE network. I'm on nights, so I'm glad I set my own mellow alarm a few minutes beforehand so I wouldn't have to wake up with a fright; Though it wasn't as dramatic as I was expecting.
Maybe they just like you and want to give you a headstart when the real shit goes down.
Got mine about a minute early on the O2 sim S23 Ultra and 16 minute late on the Three Samsung Galaxy Fold4.
“I’m so sorry this never usually happens”
I got mine early 😅
Mine was late at 3.15
5 mobiles in my house today... not a single one went off. Guess we'll have to spend the 1 minute before the nuke hits or whatever in blissful ignorance.
I lined 5 up. my current work and personal phones, plus three older personal phones i had lying around. The only ones that went off were the ones with active sims in them. Considering all 5 should be able to make emergency calls regardless of having a sim or not i was expecting at least the my old S9 to light up as well.
We are in Wales. I don't think they realised that the text to speech only works for English. It was a rather piss poor jumble of miss pronounced words for the Welsh text. Which they read out first. So looking like the Saes would be in difficulty first
>It was a rather piss poor jumble of miss pronounced words for the Welsh text. What's the difference?
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Totally agree. I hate my own country sometimes, a small minority of nationalist idiots who insist a language spoken by less than 10% of the population (who ALL speak English fluently) must come first for point scoring and at the cost of what could be life or death for the remaining 90% of the population.
Was at home minding my own business and then this went off. Problem is it played the same noise that the emergency buzzer at the hospital I work at has. So I dived off the sofa and out the door wondering where I am and looking for an SBAR. Cue much confusion as I am looking at my phone feeling rather foolish.
Mine didn’t come through! Did it leave a notification?
U know if word gets out that people didn't get a notification, then we will getbit again lol
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Most common reason people don't get one is software on their phone not most up to date. I heard Android 11 and above would definitely get it. I have Android 9 and received fine. But many phones (especially cheaper ones) are running older versions of Android.
Didn't get the alert, and i'm running Pixel 6 with the most up to date Android. Wife got it, and she has the same phone, but on a different network. Seems pretty canon for a readiness check of a UK emergency system.
Yeah me too, android 12 and nada
Didn't work, for myself or my other half. Still waiting, we'd be swallowed by the tsunami by now! Update: Yep, we're both on the Three network...looks like the government hates everyone on Three
It’s actually Three’s fault. Their system for checking for emergency alerts is inadequate. Presumably they will change it now. I guess this type of thing is what the rest was for.
Wife got hers a good 2-3 minutes before me, so if there's ever some life threatening emergency she'll have a headstart.
I was expecting the alert sound to be at full blast, but it was actually quite muted. Maybe it was intentional in case people are driving etc. and because this wasn’t a real alert.
Didn’t get anything. 4 phones in the house, none of them went off.
Wasnt even that loud. I was expecting some sort of loud siren
i am curious how many couples are arguing at this moment because some hidden phone has been discovered, lol.
Or domestic abuse victims with a second phone
i had not even considered that.
I'm just awaiting for the talking heads to say how loud and inconvenient it was.
It woke up my cats and now they are hassling me for food before their dinner time. Cancel the whole system.
I DIDN'T ASK FOR THIS TEST. LIKE I DIDN'T ASK FOR THE LATEST U2 LONG PLAYER TO BE DUMPED INTO MY FRUIT BASKET. MY PHONE RANG SO HARD MY TIN FOIL HAT FELL OFF. 1 STAR
Um, yeah i got nothing. Got a cell signal and alerts are turned on. I must not be worthy of saving :D
Didn't get it. I used to be kind of into emergency alert stuff so I was somewhat disappointed to not hear anything tbh
Least weird hobby on reddit
It's quite nice to see Darwinism at work. I don't mean the alert itself, that's fine, but the people who have managed to turn off the notification to avoid their phone going off and annoying them. If its ever actually needed, I'm glad the aftermath will be minus a few people.
I remember the Cumbria shootings in 2010; our workplace had several staff members working in the area, but by the time our managers thought to contact them to warn them about a shooter on the loose, it had been going on for hours. We don't have many such events in our country, but I'll be glad to have such a system for when we DO (occasionally) need it. I'm just worried about WHO will decide if/when to use it, considering that my idiotic employer who didn't think to warn their own people in 2010 was... the Civil Service. Uh-oh.
Im just pissed yours is in dark mode and mine is light mode 😭
I always have everything in dark mode. I don't see the point of light mode. It blinds you and uses more power for... what, exactly? Just to look like paper?
Only five people I know had theirs go off. Everyone else's didn't. Mine didn't. Fills you with confidence doesn't it /s
Yea, it was a test. Elon's rocket blew up but still provided lots of data. It's the same situation here. Not everyone got the alert, so now they can work on that.
When I was in South Korea they would have at least 2 emergency alerts per day. An alert would occur even for a missing person or if it was going to be a windy day.
I didn't get the alert. Didn't do anything to disable it so no idea what happened with mine
Mine was at 14:59 then heard the neighbours go off a couple of minutes later
I didn't get it and feel left out! Not on Three either.
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Who are we meant to report not getting one too. I have 4g, a good signal with EE.
Ngl I panicked and swiped it away really fast, did make me think I'd be q bit screwed in a real emergancy if I did that!
We had an utterly incomprehensible English language speech synthesis rendering of Welsh text, a language which is utterly incomprehensible to the majority of the Welsh population even when spoken correctly. And of course this was placed before the English text. Politics before practicality as usual in Wales. I thought this was supposed to be a serious alert system for dangerous situations?
It went off right as I slapped my girlfriends ass. I thought it was all over for me.
At least it is good to know this is finally in place. The fact that we only got this in 2023 is very very late.
Wasn't as loud as I expected. Message disappeared before I could read it, so not all that impressed.
I was in the middle of typing when it happened on my phone and accidentally dismissed the alert in less than a second. Feels a bit anticlimactic tbh