Expect your mobile to go off at 3pm this Sunday – here's why and what it'll sound like

outtatune

bob2302 said:

outtatune said:

On both my Android and iphone the button to stop the alarm also dismissed the message, and there's no (at least obvious) way to retrieve the message, so I have no idea what it said.

Which makes the whole thing pretty useless.

It probably left a notification for you to read. If it didn't that's a problem with your device rather than the system. 

No it didn't. And none of the people I've spoken to had a notification either. You could have confirmed that by looking at your own phone.

bob2302

outtatune said:

bob2302 said:

outtatune said:

On both my Android and iphone the button to stop the alarm also dismissed the message, and there's no (at least obvious) way to retrieve the message, so I have no idea what it said.

Which makes the whole thing pretty useless.

It probably left a notification for you to read. If it didn't that's a problem with your device rather than the system. 

No it didn't. And none of the people I've spoken to had a notification either. You could have confirmed that by looking at your own phone.

I did - I had one.

In a real emergency you hopefully wouldn't dismiss it without reading. in this case it made no difference because you knew what it was.

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I think delays in getting notifications is an inherent mobile phone and / or network issue.

Like many people I have a video door bell. Usually I get a notification on my phone within a second or two, first of a visitor approaching the door and again if they press the bell. But not always! Occasionally it can be delayed anywhere between 30 seconds and several minutes. When that happens it is effectively useless. That can happen regardless of whether the phone is on WiFi or 4 / 5g.

In the house there is a sounder that is completely independent of the phone and WiFi. That is always instant.

Several friends with other makes of doorbell cameras experience the same issues.

So I would assume the emergency notification must suffer the same issues.