Less than 25 minutes before the sirens go off!

[xoggoth]

Feel free to moan.

[xoggoth]

What? 3.09 PM and not heard a thing!

[ladymuck]

It was very underwhelming

If your phone wasn't of the right minimum android or apple version you wouldn't have received anything.

[sadkingbilly]

you need a 4 or 5g phone
as usual, govmint ignores peeps who aren't fanatical about having the latest iThing.

[Protagoras]

Maybe I really shouldn't still be using Android 8 ...

[hobnob]

If your phone wasn't of the right minimum android or apple version you wouldn't have received anything.

Here are the minimum specs from the gov.uk site:
How emergency alerts work - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Emergency alerts work on:

• iPhones running iOS 14.5 or later
• Android phones and tablets running Android 11 or later

I got the alert on my personal phone (iOS 16.4.1) but I didn't get anything on my work phone (Android 13).

On the Android phone (Samsung Galaxy A13) I've gone to:
Settings | Safety and Emergency
Emergency Alerts | Samsung UK
However there's no option for "Allow alerts". (The nearest I've got is "Earthquake alerts", which says "not available in your region".)

I've got 2 working theories:
a) My phone only gets quarterly updates from Samsung, so maybe it's missing a patch that would add this feature.
b) When I enrolled my phone in Intune, the OS became Android Enterprise. Maybe that has different features?

I don't think it's anything to do with the phone contract (i.e. business vs personal), but hopefully someone else can confirm whether they got an alert from a business contract.

[sadkingbilly]

my nokia 3320 didn't get it

[xoggoth]

I've got Android 13 and alerts allowed. Expect the Russians hacked it so we won't know when the H Bomb is coming.

as usual, govmint ignores peeps who aren't fanatical about having the latest iThing

Yeh, they probably want to get rid of us old farts to reduce the state pension costs.

[mudskipper]

I got a load of alerts in South Korea last month, but nowt here. Android 13.


edit - now I've uploaded a pic I can google lens them - very dull!

[vetran]

worked well enough for me.