Emergency warning on Sunday

I didn't receive the alert, but I didn't expect to because my smartphone is very old.

Nicenanny3

We're both with Tesco and both our phones got alert at 3.

We are too - DH got two alerts and I got none.

As an experiment, it hasn't had 100% success, has it!

I thought the missing child example quoted was great. Just an upgrade to town criers etc

I did. It's true, I did.

volver3 Thu 20 Apr-23 19:40:51, wrote
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I certainly don't want to know about missing children and what their abductor might look like. I can do without the stress, thanks."

NotSpaghetti . At least I got the warning. OH didn't. Both in the same house. I'd better warn him that I might, after all, turn into a zombie.

LadyHonoriaDedlock

I didn't want to be caught so I switched my phone off for half an hour. 15:00 came and went and at 15:05 I turned my phone back on. Almost immediately I got the alarm. Really annoyed about that.

What was even more annoying was that the synthetic voice had an American accent. I mean, speech synthesis has come a long way and even my Alexa devices do better than that. I can just about put up with English Home Counties (despite painful memories of being tormented as a transplanted 11-year-old with a Wirral accent) and I didn't really expect Glesca patter, but American? I wonder who's running that show.

What voice ? I got the alarm but no voice.

Don't be silly Aveline - you need to wait for the pathogens to develop.. you won't be saying that in a week or two!

Nothing on either of ours in Somerset. Both on the 3 network. Phones are up to date. Oh well. Missed out.

We're both with Tesco and both our phones got alert at 3.

Apparently you need to be on the 4g network and using Android 11 or iPhone iOS 14.5. So older phones won't get it, including me. Not had anything by 4pm.

My husband, both sons and I are all on Three and didn't get the alert

SueDonim
Apparently some Three customers didn’t receive the alert. I guess that’s what this about - testing the system. Though Elon Musk’s failures are more spectacular!

I don’t know why I was so startled by it. It’s not like we haven’t had plenty of advance notice. But I’d just got my key in the door and it gave me such a jump my bladder almost had a rapid unscheduled disassembly just like Elon Musk’s rocket 🤣

My husband didn't get an alert.
EE and enabled.
🤷

3, Tesco, Smart and giff gaff failed apparently, hence it was a test.

I'm using Smarty on a Fairphone 3+ by the way.

We both received it. Over in a flash before I realised what it was and not very loud.

I didn't want to be caught so I switched my phone off for half an hour. 15:00 came and went and at 15:05 I turned my phone back on. Almost immediately I got the alarm. Really annoyed about that.

What was even more annoying was that the synthetic voice had an American accent. I mean, speech synthesis has come a long way and even my Alexa devices do better than that. I can just about put up with English Home Counties (despite painful memories of being tormented as a transplanted 11-year-old with a Wirral accent) and I didn't really expect Glesca patter, but American? I wonder who's running that show.

Apparently some Three customers didn’t receive the alert. I guess that’s what this about - testing the system. Though Elon Musk’s failures are more spectacular! 🚀

Dh got notification, but not alarm sound
Nothing in mine.
There is a thread on mumsnet re alarm
Voting enabled almost 50/50

Also a Gov link to report no alarm .
Sorry can't transfer links

I got it but MrA didn't. Don't know what time though, didn't have the phone on me but the display was on there. MrA has alerts turned off.

There is another possible use for national alerts like this. When I lived in the US a friend and I were driving out of Atlanta when all the smart signs on the freeway started showing descriptions of a car and a partial registration plate. Our phones went off with the same message. A child had been abducted by the driver of the car and the police were getting everyone to look for the car. The child was recovered within about an hour.

15.33 and still nothing here - I'm on EE in central Scotland.

Nothing in our Orkney 'Blind Spot'.....unsurprisingly!

Nothing in my flat at 15:00.

Wandered down to the communal area to see if that helped.
It came in about 15:07.

Back to the flat.
Alarm sounds at 15:15.

New phone, all upgrades upgraded. However, I don't understand how the alarm is transmitted. Is it, essentially, by phone? I have excellent WiFi but zero mobile signal in the flat, have just changed my provider so that I can use WiFi calling, what a boon.

I've asked my neighbours to come and beat on my door, in the future, if they get the Four-Minute Warning.....

Wasn't looking at the time, but it must have been at 3 pm. I'd just gone upstairs and had taken my phone with me. It was loud.