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Poll: Public emergency alerts to be sent to all UK mobile phones
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Soldato
In the pub watching spurs get spanked, nearly everyone had the alert. This forum never fails to bring out the edge cases
Soldato
I was with a few friends who all got their alert, but just never came through on my phone. Seems pretty poor how widespread the problem seems be be.
Had signal the whole time, and checked my settings and I hadn't disabled emergency alerts or anything.
Just wonder how they managed to get to the point of having a full scale national test and still have this many failures.
Hope they fix it though, because it's a great ability to be able to warm everyone about emergencies at once, and honestly I think it's ridiculous that it's 2023 and we're only just getting this capability in the UK!
Had signal the whole time, and checked my settings and I hadn't disabled emergency alerts or anything.
Just wonder how they managed to get to the point of having a full scale national test and still have this many failures.
Hope they fix it though, because it's a great ability to be able to warm everyone about emergencies at once, and honestly I think it's ridiculous that it's 2023 and we're only just getting this capability in the UK!
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Given the amount of people in this thread who didn't get an alert, I'd say it's more than a small proportion
It was odd, I got the alert, but was a friend who had never heard that the alert was happening so was really surprised and I pretty sure the alert didn't occur on their phone.
On a positive note I felt the alert was very clear, and didn't realise it was going to be read out as well.
On a positive note I felt the alert was very clear, and didn't realise it was going to be read out as well.
Soldato
I've just had to use GOOGLE to see what fap means. Must be an age thing
Soldato
Couldnt even send to everyone at once never mind specific locations.
Soldato
GF's iPhone went off at 15:01 and everyone looked at her funny. Then over the next few minutes everyone else went off, yet my iPhone never did. And the notifications settings are correct...
Caporegime
My phone hasn’t been working properly since the alert (Sky Mobile)
On this forum out of potentially 70M+ people not sure you can draw that conclusion lol..
Soldato
How many tests do they do before it’s canned?
Don
It's almost like a test of the system to find the problems was a good idea?
Soldato
I got it. Wasn't much for the voice though, they ought to have made it a proper English cut-glass accent.
Why would they can it given it was successful for the majority of phones?
But yes more tests please if only to wind up the frothers
From what I've read, the voice is more to do with text-to-speech settings on a device rather than being a part of the emergency broadcast.
I got the alert.
2:59 on my iPhone on O2. Mobile data on, no speech output.
3:02 on my P20 Pro on Vodafone. Mobile data on, no speech output.
Emergency broadcasts disabled on my Pixel 6, no message receieved.
It does seem a bit odd to push this out over the mobile data network. Surely tieing it in with the carrier signalling is far more reliable and means all phones will be able to receive it, regardless of whether they are connected to the Internet.
No voice speech on mine, just the audible siren sound.
Soldato
My thoughts also. Must be an accessibility setting on the phone switched on. Most wouldn’t get any text to speech happening, just the siren.