Im just pissed yours is in dark mode and mine is light mode 😭
Worked fine for me. Now I look forward to never hearing it again.
Absolutely fuming that the mods haven’t sticked a Post Match Thread for this event.
Mine didn’t come through! Did it leave a notification?
I’m just awaiting for the talking heads to say how loud and inconvenient it was.
Didn’t receive any message nor did my GF .
Checked settings in phone (iPhone) alerts are enabled so ?
Anyone else get theirs early? Government can’t even send a test out at the right time 😂
At least you got one. None of the four phones in my household have had an alert and none of us have knowingly turned it off
Only five people I know had theirs go off. Everyone else’s didn’t. Mine didn’t. Fills you with confidence doesn’t it /s
Didn’t get anything. 4 phones in the house, none of them went off.
Didn’t work, for myself or my other half. Still waiting, we’d be swallowed by the tsunami by now!
Update: Yep, we’re both on the Three network…looks like the government hates everyone on Three
5 mobiles in my house today… not a single one went off. Guess we’ll have to spend the 1 minute before the nuke hits or whatever in blissful ignorance.
I still feel utterly stupid that, despite all the warnings and knowledge that it was going to be today, the damned thing still gave me a jumpscare.
And now I’m in a philosophical debate as to whether or not these alerts are a good idea. I mean, we have no really publicly-available nuclear bunkers any more, so in that regard, do we really want to be warned of impending inevitable, inescapable doom?
We are in Wales.
I don’t think they realised that the text to speech only works for English.
It was a rather piss poor jumble of miss pronounced words for the Welsh text.
Which they read out first.
So looking like the Saes would be in difficulty first
Um, yeah i got nothing. Got a cell signal and alerts are turned on. I must not be worthy of saving 😀
Wasnt even that loud. I was expecting some sort of loud siren
Was at home minding my own business and then this went off.
Problem is it played the same noise that the emergency buzzer at the hospital I work at has.
So I dived off the sofa and out the door wondering where I am and looking for an SBAR.
Cue much confusion as I am looking at my phone feeling rather foolish.
I was expecting the alert sound to be at full blast, but it was actually quite muted. Maybe it was intentional in case people are driving etc. and because this wasn’t a real alert.
Not impressed with the user interface here – it made a noise, I poked “OK” to stop the noise, and then couldn’t find out what the message had been.
Eventually found an alerts history section in my phone, but I’d probably already have been taken away by the tsunami at this point.
Do love all the “stick it to the government” posts on FB/Twitter etc of people claiming they’re turning it off.
It’s an emergency alert system to give you as much warning as is possible to a possibly life changing event about to or taking place. Yeah you show Rishi! Lmao
Wife got hers a good 2-3 minutes before me, so if there’s ever some life threatening emergency she’ll have a headstart.
The funniest thing about the whole alert is the news reporting on it like it’s the most exciting thing ever.
On BBC News they were speaking to the general public and far too many people made more of it than they should. It’s like watching the chickens out of Chicken Run losing their minds.
Far too many are acting like it’s a conspiracy. TikTok appeared one too many times as a source of information (and no surprise was talked about in the context of government control).
It’s a minor inconvenience that’s important, like any other alarm. Can’t imagine people were this excited over fire alarms or burglar alarms.
i am curious how many couples are arguing at this moment because some hidden phone has been discovered, lol.
I’ve got a Huawei I just got the Chinese national anthem at full volume, weird
I DIDN’T ASK FOR THIS TEST. LIKE I DIDN’T ASK FOR THE LATEST U2 LONG PLAYER TO BE DUMPED INTO MY FRUIT BASKET.
MY PHONE RANG SO HARD MY TIN FOIL HAT FELL OFF.
1 STAR
I was in the Tesco.
Loads of people stopped to look at their phone in unison. That, and the massive amounts of “King Charles Coronation” bunting that was up, reminded me that we really are in the darkest timeline.
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Im just pissed yours is in dark mode and mine is light mode 😭
Worked fine for me. Now I look forward to never hearing it again.
Absolutely fuming that the mods haven’t sticked a Post Match Thread for this event.
Mine didn’t come through! Did it leave a notification?
I’m just awaiting for the talking heads to say how loud and inconvenient it was.
Didn’t receive any message nor did my GF .
Checked settings in phone (iPhone) alerts are enabled so ?
Anyone else get theirs early? Government can’t even send a test out at the right time 😂
At least you got one. None of the four phones in my household have had an alert and none of us have knowingly turned it off
Only five people I know had theirs go off. Everyone else’s didn’t. Mine didn’t. Fills you with confidence doesn’t it /s
Didn’t get anything. 4 phones in the house, none of them went off.
Didn’t work, for myself or my other half. Still waiting, we’d be swallowed by the tsunami by now!
Update: Yep, we’re both on the Three network…looks like the government hates everyone on Three
5 mobiles in my house today… not a single one went off. Guess we’ll have to spend the 1 minute before the nuke hits or whatever in blissful ignorance.
I still feel utterly stupid that, despite all the warnings and knowledge that it was going to be today, the damned thing still gave me a jumpscare.
And now I’m in a philosophical debate as to whether or not these alerts are a good idea. I mean, we have no really publicly-available nuclear bunkers any more, so in that regard, do we really want to be warned of impending inevitable, inescapable doom?
We are in Wales.
I don’t think they realised that the text to speech only works for English.
It was a rather piss poor jumble of miss pronounced words for the Welsh text.
Which they read out first.
So looking like the Saes would be in difficulty first
Um, yeah i got nothing. Got a cell signal and alerts are turned on. I must not be worthy of saving 😀
Wasnt even that loud. I was expecting some sort of loud siren
Was at home minding my own business and then this went off.
Problem is it played the same noise that the emergency buzzer at the hospital I work at has.
So I dived off the sofa and out the door wondering where I am and looking for an SBAR.
Cue much confusion as I am looking at my phone feeling rather foolish.
I was expecting the alert sound to be at full blast, but it was actually quite muted. Maybe it was intentional in case people are driving etc. and because this wasn’t a real alert.
Not impressed with the user interface here – it made a noise, I poked “OK” to stop the noise, and then couldn’t find out what the message had been.
Eventually found an alerts history section in my phone, but I’d probably already have been taken away by the tsunami at this point.
Do love all the “stick it to the government” posts on FB/Twitter etc of people claiming they’re turning it off.
It’s an emergency alert system to give you as much warning as is possible to a possibly life changing event about to or taking place. Yeah you show Rishi! Lmao
Wife got hers a good 2-3 minutes before me, so if there’s ever some life threatening emergency she’ll have a headstart.
The funniest thing about the whole alert is the news reporting on it like it’s the most exciting thing ever.
On BBC News they were speaking to the general public and far too many people made more of it than they should. It’s like watching the chickens out of Chicken Run losing their minds.
Far too many are acting like it’s a conspiracy. TikTok appeared one too many times as a source of information (and no surprise was talked about in the context of government control).
It’s a minor inconvenience that’s important, like any other alarm. Can’t imagine people were this excited over fire alarms or burglar alarms.
i am curious how many couples are arguing at this moment because some hidden phone has been discovered, lol.
I’ve got a Huawei I just got the Chinese national anthem at full volume, weird
I DIDN’T ASK FOR THIS TEST. LIKE I DIDN’T ASK FOR THE LATEST U2 LONG PLAYER TO BE DUMPED INTO MY FRUIT BASKET.
MY PHONE RANG SO HARD MY TIN FOIL HAT FELL OFF.
1 STAR
I was in the Tesco.
Loads of people stopped to look at their phone in unison. That, and the massive amounts of “King Charles Coronation” bunting that was up, reminded me that we really are in the darkest timeline.