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    Emergency test alert sent to mobile phones across the UK – live updates

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    2. Cam2910 on

      Anyone’s kids using a phone with google family link? Daughters phone was the only one that didn’t go off and the setting for it isn’t there.

    5. aembleton on

      Seemed to go off twice on my wifes iPhone about 10 minutes apart, and only once on my Android. We’re both on Lebara.

    8. RecentTwo544 on

      Just said this in another thread but comments were locked before I could post it –

      I find it very bizarre the way some people are annoyed by this, and as the person I was replying to said, take a kind of pride in boasting they’ve turned them off.

      Now I can *kind of* buy into the whole “the government is trying to control us type stuff” certainly in regards to some recent legislation like the Online Safety Act. But certainly not the whole daft nonsense about chemtrails and vaccines or cashless society (that’s their latest one).

      But I do find that the people who believe in the latter nonsense are the ones getting annoyed by this.

      It’s an alert, and from a technical viewpoint is literally outbound only – it isn’t even sent to “your phone” it is simply burst out from all cell towers and goes to *every phone* within range. The system can’t even tell how many phones it hit, because it is strictly outbound only, just by design.

      Yet the same people proudly boasting “I’ve got mine turned off, the government can’t get involved in my life” are doing so on the internet, and the government can (and will if you’re doing something you shouldn’t) monitor *everything* you do online.

      And don’t even get me started on HMRC – they can find out what you had for breakfast on your seventh birthday if they so wish.

      So I really am failing to see why people are boasting about turning these off.

      Best case scenario they’re warning of flooding. Do they just want to be stranded if there’s incoming floods? Here’s an idea – if one of these is sent out, you get trapped by floods, you need to be rescued at great expense, and you’re found to have turned these alerts off, you have to pay for your own rescue.

      Then there’s the big one – in the unlikely event of nuclear attack a lot of the opposition to the idea is simply that nuclear war is simply no survivable so therefore pointless to be warned about it. LONG explanation so I won’t type it out, but this simply isn’t true.

    10. GrayAceGoose on

      In an severe emergency, is a Welsh translation even needed?

      Mewn argyfwng difrifol, a oes angen cyfieithiad Cymraeg?

    14. TelevisionVast5819 on

      Its 15:13 and still people phones are going off. Surely it’s not a great test if they’re supposed to alert at 3pm

    15. cheeseley6 on

      Should have happened during that crank quacks antivax speech at the Reform cult gathering yesterday.

    16. NeedMoreDrugs1 on

      Forgot about it and was just emerging from an afternoon nap. National emergencies require far better timing in the future.

    18. bbyn0money on

      Local community moaner page is crying that it scared their animals and children. Lots of could they not have a SILENT EMERGENCY alarm..

    20. Look-over-there-ag on

      Is it just me or was this one quieter than the last one I remember the last one being crazy loud

    21. Sparko_Marco on

      I didn’t get it, never got it last time either. My phones only 7 years old so not that old but could be the reason.

    22. madcow87_ on

      Worked fine for the lads in the work shop at work. There’s likely going to be a few wrists slapped tomorrow as they’re not supposed to have their mobiles out there and collectively it sounded like the town hall was making the noise.

    23. fell_stone on

      Aside from nuclear war why would we need this, like I appreciate having it, but in event of atomic destruction I’d rather spend my last 15 minutes wonderfully oblivious 😅

    26. james2183 on

      Did anyone else get a voice on theirs? I just got the siren but my mate had a voice come through his

    27. Loreki on

      I’m at an airport. They had announcements every 5 minutes leading up, reminding people not to panic.

    28. DoomguyFemboi on

      …Live updates ?

      > In Manchester a bloke heard his phone make a weird noise. Went “what’s that ?” looked at phone, said “oh weird” then sat back down. Back to the studio

    31. tony220jdm on

      When i was in America you get warnings all the time for natural disaters incoming! its a good thing to have and gives people time to prepare or remove themselves from the area

    32. DinosaursLayEggs on

      I was in a restaurant when it went off, and mine started before anyone else’s so you know, in an emergency, I have at least a 30 second head start

    36. Serious_Fox3342 on

      What a day for business it was I’ve never snatched so many phones in such a short time before. God bless the government