Do you (or anyone) now whether the phone automatically sends back a response? If so, they can know what they sent and what got acknowledged. The difference is what was never received.
You’d be hungry again in an hour. Sorry.
On my phone I had to click OK to clear it… I’m assuming the provided some sort of notification back.
Too sweet? I could pop another metformin.
It went off in the NY courtroom:
It was loud and annoying, and then everyone got out their phones and hit the “OK” button. Not sure what you were expecting.
Oh, if I were a zombie, I’d never eat your brain!
I’d just want your heart, I’d just want your heart, I’d just want your heart,
'Cuz I want ya
I got it twice, once in English and once in Spanish.
My phone only displayed a message and played the little tune I normally get with a text or Facebook notification.
With a previous phone and different carrier I used to get loud Amber Alert messages that seemed fairly consistently to be from the wrong geographic region of the the USA, many hundreds of miles from me, so I turned off some of my emergency alerts. However, I have not deliberately done so with my current phone. I wonder if during the process of transferring contacts and apps from my old android phone to my current one, I also managed to shut off emergency alerts on the new phone. I’ll have to investigate my settings…
I was imagining squeals and chaos. That was always fun in highschool.
I guess not for teaching staff. Sorry.
The large company where I used to work ran monthly PA tests with the phrase “This is a test of the emergency announcement system. If you are in an area where you did not hear this message, please call…” After the first two months, it was something everyone laughed at, but it ran for over ten years and they were still doing it when I left.
If you KNOW you should hear something & don’t that’s a VALID test as maybe the PA speaker is broken & needs to be fixed in case of a real emergency
I have an OLD cell phone I keep behind my PC. It doesn’t have a Sim card; it’s sole purpose WAS to give me audio alerts for new emails (I don’t carry my phone in the house). When it also went off yesterday I reached for it to silence it. Holy $#! +!!! The battery swelled so much that it had popped the rear case off & actually broke the plastic on the inside" hulking" it’s way out of the battery compartment. Needless to say, it won’t be plugged in again & the only reason it’s not in the trashcan is that we have an upcoming electronics recycling day soon.
This has reminded me of the wonderful fire drill scene from the Office.
In wonder how many car wrecks happened yesterday at the same time as the alerts.
FTR: I turned my phone off yesterday afternoon. I guess it doesn’t “wait” to alert you when you power back up.
I was driving while both the phone alert and the car-radio alert went off. Both were ordinary familiar Emergency Broadcast System tones and were neither any louder nor any longer-lasting than past EBS broadcast tests. If anything, they were notably brief, in my estimation. The alerts weren’t at all jarring or even particularly distracting (especially knowing they were coming). Perhaps other people’s experiences differed
There was really, really nothing to it.
My iPhone didn’t get an alert. So, since this was a “test” of the system, something didn’t work. Should I tell someone? (other than you fine folks)
I was wondering that too, since all I heard on my phone was a brief churrip and not a longer alert.
That’s what alerts sound like.
I only heard a single lert, though.
Yeah, that’s the way they work. I’ve got them a few times over the years. Severe weather warnings and Amber Alerts and Covid shutdown messages. Always a brief blip.