“Android 11 or later”Interestingly, it only worked on one of my phones. I have an older smartphone that has a prepay SIM and there was no alert on that one. I'm wondering if it's only newer operating system versions that have the alert functionality (that phone has Android 8).
There will be a huge amount of people who won't have received it then, my phone is less than 3 years old (bought in August 2020) and is only version 10.“Android 11 or later”
How emergency alerts work
Emergency alerts are broadcast from mobile phone masts. Find out if your phone or tablet can receive alerts.www.gov.uk
I'm on Android 13 so no reason I shouldn't have received it.There will be a huge amount of people who won't have received it then, my phone is less than 3 years old (bought in August 2020) and is only version 10.
i belive thats the intentiontone was very annoying and loud.
Good idea to have a test to get these issues worked out before a real emergency then i guess.With many people not getting anything, many people getting only a visual warning with no sound and many people getting it up to 20 minutes early or late, I would guess it didn't go exactly as intended.
That’s what tests are for. They are rarely 100% successful. Work in progress.Doesn't appear to have been 100% successful.
Well that’s a bonus. If it was a nuclear attack I’d rather have no advance warning. At my age there’s very little you can do in 4 minutes. It would take me longer than that to even think about it…My wife got her alert at 15.13 - if there had been an imminent nuclear attack, we'd have been frazzled by then!
I'm on three and had nothingAll worked as intended early at 14:59 on my end. I'm reading users on the Three network didn't receive an alert.
What sort of a climax were you expecting?What an anti-climax that was!!!!!!