NHS Covid 19 Track & Trace app now available

Frog yes it has to be a smart phone which can be android of iPhone . If the latter, the oldest model which can be used is an IPhone 6S and you just have to check the IoS is updated

Jenny to be fair, it’s not the NHS or anyone else catering to the wealthy. It’s technologically impossible to have any system like this based on less developed phones. It’s just how it is. That’s why we still need a functioning T and T system as well.

I have an iPhone 6 SE and downloaded with no problem. Phone around 2 years old

Is this the world beating award winning app that Boris promised 6 months ago that has loads of glitches and questionable privacy issues ?

We each have an android phone and have downloaded it quite easily. We don't use our phones very much so have limited time and calls in our packages.

Does anyone know if we will be charged extra? Will we use some of our allowance when we are out with our phones?

I haven’t downloaded it at this point not because I m afraid of anyone tracking me couldn’t care less nothing to hide but how will it work if you pass someone with it (it doesn’t necessarily pass on to you) but you still have to Hibernate for two weeks then you get out of hibernation and a similar thing happens how can workers manage the possibility of stopping and starting work every few weeks What about self employed I don’t understand how that can possibly work, together with all the people without phones or without smart phones ??
Maybe I m missing something here

Pumpkinpie

Is this the world beating award winning app that Boris promised 6 months ago that has loads of glitches and questionable privacy issues ?

No.

Liz46 you won't be charged extra and you won't use any of your allowance. Have a look at the Vodafone link I posted upthread, it explains a lot and not just for Vodafone users.

Liz46 no extra charges

I've just downloaded on SE. I'm in medium risk area.

Thank you Alegrias and Jaxjacky x

I tried using mine at a coffee shop this morning as was disappointed because as well as the QR code I had to put the number of the venue, plus my name & phone number. What’s the point? I could just have told that to the girl on the door. I thought it would be automatic.
Have I missed something?

suziewoozie

Frog yes it has to be a smart phone which can be android of iPhone . If the latter, the oldest model which can be used is an IPhone 6S and you just have to check the IoS is updated

Thanks - my mobile is just the ordinary run of the mill sort.

pollyperkins

I tried using mine at a coffee shop this morning as was disappointed because as well as the QR code I had to put the number of the venue, plus my name & phone number. What’s the point? I could just have told that to the girl on the door. I thought it would be automatic.
Have I missed something?

I think most places have a barcode (?QR code) that you can register on with your mobile. My husband says he has seen them on shop doors.

The best tracing system I have seen is in a coffee shop where they simply write your phone number on the till receipt that they keep. They reckon that only 10% of the country will be able to use this app.

I'm starting to feel like a cheerleader for this app, and I'm not, honestly. But here I go again.

I suspect that the coffee shop didn't know how the app works Liz46. But in any case the QR code part is secondary.

The main purpose of the app is to identify if you have been within 2m of somebody for more than 15 minutes. If you go to the coffee shop and they take your details, they can trace you. But if you sit next to someone on the bus, you don't know their details so they can't be traced by name. But if you both use the app and then one of you tests positive, the other will get a message.

So, the app is in addition to the contact tracing done by pubs, coffee shops etc, and finds people you wouldn't be able to find otherwise.

I'm not sure where you got the 10% figure from Barmeyoldbat, but 10% would be better than nothing.

I don't have an iPhone, couldn't afford one, mine is a Samsung J5 which costs me 11.99 per month from a well known supermarket, next February I will have had it for two years, I will then own it and the monthly charges will go down. Downloaded the app easily this morning.

Its our civic duty to pull together and help to defeat this very dangerous oncoming pandemic. No-one will be tracked

Alegrias you explain very clearly thank you

bluebelle we aint seen nothing yet, covid has not yet started. Perhaps you know someone who has had it and appears better, well ask them how their health is in 6 months, in a year. Read about long covid, read about heart, lung and kidney damage which will be permanent for the rest of life

Its time to put selfish feelings aside and pull together

I remember when Eat Out to Help Out started and some posters made it sound as though you were being totally unreasonable and unpatriotic for not so doing. Some of us still didn’t feel safe so doing, some couldn’t afford it, done had no one to eat with. Well we need to be careful about what we say about downloading this app. Some of us can’t ( as already explained) and can’t afford or do not want to upgrade, some could install it but have concerns about so doing. No one should feel guilty about not downloading it. Personally, I’m sorry I can’t but as I said upthread, I’m covered by DH. I’ve no objections to it but don’t think people who don’t download should be criticised.

people who don`t download because they cannot are not to be criticised, of course not, I expect there are several who would like to download but cannot

Others who could and don`t are purely and simply selfish. I didn`t need to download, I am careful and live semi-rural but I have done it because it is my civic duty and the more people that help protect others, the better this will work. It could form a ring of steel around the vulnerable

Hummm .crafty I’m still not sure about it being a civic duty. I think I’d accept this position more if we had a functioning testing system and T and T system and if SD and mask wearing etc were properly enforced

Yes I did do the QR thingy on my phone and I have the app, but I still had to type in my name and phone number and the number of the cafe which was written next to the QR thing. . Maybe I did something wrong.

I misunderstood pollyperkins, sorry, I thought the coffee shop had asked you for your details as well as the app. I did a quick online search but I couldn't find out why you had to do that. Does seem odd.

I had a bit of a struggle at first. Turned out I had Bluetooth turned off. I knew I was in a high risk area but just had it confirmed. I am going to have to put a note on the front door to remind me to take my mobile phone whenever I go out.
Now to sort out OHs mobile!