I'm all for the alerts, but if you can have 'normal' settings on your phone that disables them, it all seems a bit pointless. I have various settings for what I want to hear and not hear on my phone normally, but that shouldn't apply to alerts should it?
Someone I know who wears hearing aids had been contacted by some organisation (no idea who) to warn them that they may find it too loud and suggesting they should remove their heating aids for a short while prior to 3pm. She forwarded the message to all in her email address list.
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I'm not sure how this test proves anything. As I said, I never got any alert at all and neither did my son. Does that mean the broadcast was faulty in our area or that we have settings on our phones that prohibits the gov alert?
Surely, if you are going to introduce an alert system, it must be done in conjunction with the phone companies (which it presumably was) - and there then must be specific settings on each phone that disables the alert. Leaving it up to random settings on the phone seems a bit stupid to me.
So it was a lie that you could turn your phone off if you didn't want to receive the alert. I turned my phone off at 2.50, and back on at 3.15. At 3.20 the alert sounded, with the option to select 'OK' or 'View' and i couldn't delete it if i wanted to continue to use my phone. I didn't want to select either, so i switched my phone off and on again. It was still there in my messages, but i was able to delete it from there.
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Didn't get the message.
https://surveys.publishing.service.gov.uk/s/A7XZXQ
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