Public emergency alerts to be sent to all UK smartphones on 23rd April

unforeseen

missile said:

unforeseen said:

I have no such setting on either of my phones. Your illustration appears to be a US phone.
Maybe you should have read the government page that you link to before posting this? 

I posted the link to government page, there is no info on there on how to turn off the service. 
It is not easy to find how to turn off and my photo is from a UK website.

If you don't have that, you have a very old unsupported iPhone?

When the bomb drops, I want to be the last to know. Always The Last To Know (Single Mix) - YouTube Music

It's not a case of having an old iPhone but not having one at all. 
The reason I said it was a US phone is that one of the apps is Venmo which is a uniquely American app. 

Sarahspangles

This be it on iOS 6.3 x right at the bottom

oldernonethewiser

Sarahspangles said:

This be it on iOS 6.3 x right at the bottom

Same on 16.4 (both off on mine though)

Sarahspangles

I expect Android users with the skills will be able to amend their alert descriptors to things like:

‘Stay Alert’
‘Constant Vigilance’ and 
‘Mild Peril’ or ‘Extreme Peril’

mark_cycling00

I'd go for:

( ) avocado shortage at Waitrose
( ) Zombie apocalypse 

Sarahspangles

Despite knowing all about this in advance I expect I’ll still jump out of my skin and evacuate the building and OH will walk across and stare at the microwave in puzzlement.

missile

facade said:

missile said:

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I posted the link to government page, there is no info on there on how to turn off the service. 
It is not easy to find how to turn off and my photo is from a UK website.

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Seemed fairly easy to me, 

I left them on, I can't really see why you wouldn't want warning

Only if you know they can be turned off and where to look.
I don't have a lot of faith in government. A warning for a visit by Sunak, so I could make sure I am out :-)

missile

Sarahspangles said:

Despite knowing all about this in advance I expect I’ll still jump out of my skin and evacuate the building and OH will walk across and stare at the microwave in puzzlement.

I expect it will be utter chaos, I will be avoiding populous events, shopping malls et al.

forgotmyname

facade said:

Can't be that important then.

Still, I suppose "Nuclear strike imminent, get the door off its hinges and hide under it!" isn't much good if you are driving a car....

You don't hide under the door with a Nuclear attack, you remove the door to stand SAFELY in the opening it leaves behind. 

Perfectly safe if you do that, I remember reading the leaflets and watching the TV in the late 70's. Maybe houses were
stronger back then?  Although if you were within the detonation zone it maybe safer to hide under the stairs.

Brie

facade said:

I left them on, I can't really see why you wouldn't want warning of an Impending Disaster, like a dam breach, meteorite impact, nuclear strike, visit by local MP etc.

Most of the jolliness aside....one of the reasons someone might want to turn this off is if they have a secret phone.  Boffin on the news suggested that a woman in an abusive relationship might have a phone for use in emergencies and that having it suddenly screeching about an MP visiting would disclose its location to the abuser.  Of course the same kinda scenario might exist if a bloke has a secret phone he uses to communicate with his boyfriend that he doesn't want his wife to know about.