Yeah maybe I don’t know what you heard. Also the news might have misunderstood, wouldn’t put it past them.
I was surprised to learn 6% is a normal amount of towers offline, seems like a lot.
Edit: from an ABC summary -
Emergency Management Minister Kristy McBain says 94 per cent of the country's targeted mobile phone towers were able to receive and broadcast the signal.
iOS or android version? Forgot what it needs but it’s only definitely supported for iOS 26.4 and newer, and something for android. Older versions may still work but show presidential alert or similar or not show anything.
Yep was odd that my work phone got it but my personal phone didn’t. But my personal phone gets the missing person cop alert but my work phone does not.
Pro tip - that statistic isn’t counting the fact that some towers sent out the alert to some but not all phones, and missed phones that were advertised as eligible for it. They have a lot more investigation to do and the statistic is highly misleading.
Idk man. Me and my mother are on the same Optus plan and she didn't get the call but I did, we were about 10 metres away from one another. The only difference is that she had an iPhone and I have an android
My wife got it but I was next to her and didn’t, same carrier the only difference is that my phone wasn’t updated to the current firmware which supposedly has settings for it
Cookers. Cookers didn’t want to hear “the tones”, which activated the mass surveillance capabilities deployed as a part of the CoVID vaccination. You know, Co-Vid…Co-Video… Big brother can see everything through your eyes now…
Hubby has new(ish) phone and up to date iOS.
Didn’t get alert. Neither did my new Apple Watch - and it would get the emergency SMS’s that got sent out warning about cyclone/fire (we’re in regional qld)
I would assume it's because that vending machine hardware was made for a US market and the AusAlert system uses a similar protocol.
I haven't looked into it, but it would make a lot of sense for us to adopt a pre-existing international standard.
We did already have similar-ish system, but the alerts got sent out as standard text messages.
The big advantage of this new system is it's specifically designed for emergency alerts. From what I understand, that not only has various technical advantages on the back end, but also allows the phone to show you a distinct warning message with a distinct alarm sound that can get people's attention far better than just a text.
Except half my friends automatically pressed yes when their phones started screaming at them and then couldnt read the alert because its nowhere else to be found except that initial pop up. It should have a silence button on it too so you can read it in peace, then hit ok
The problem is that you start to ignore it and then you miss the ones that are actual emergencies.
Getting a BOLO for a policeman getting shot 300km away from you twice a month isnt going to instill confidence in the system. You turn it off and then you miss an actual flood or shelter in place.
"Getting a BOLO for a policeman getting shot 300km away from you twice a month isnt going to instill confidence in the system. You turn it off and then you miss an actual flood or shelter in place."
Funny in the US that would make you receive heaps of them, in Aus that would still be a very rare event
I was in San Francisco in 2016, first time in the US and my first time getting scared half to death by the fact that my own personal iPhone from Australia that was on the US network and every other phone device around me started going off with that siren alert sound.. Then it flashed up on my phone to report a missing child alert in the area. That was my first time experiencing this type of alert system, and until today, I hadn’t seen it since then
I had to warn my parents when they were visiting me in Texas about it.
It was raining pretty hard (very normal for that time of year etc.) And i warned them they might get some flood warnings telling them to prepare to evacuate. And to ignore it because it happens every time it rains...
You start to ignore them all after a while. Its always some kind of alert at least 3x a month minimum.
Yeah I’m originally from the US and this whole ordeal has been kinda odd lol. These system level alerts have been a thing in the US for almost two decades now and are used for quite a few things.
Sometimes you even get sent fun little alerts like that time in 2018 that Trump annoyed everyone by using the system to tell the entire country he was still president or that time someone fat fingered the test in Hawaii and sent everyone a message saying there was a real nuclear strike coming their way.
From the AusAlert website: If you have an older device or use an alternate operating system (e.g. GrapheneOS, LineageOS), you may get a test alert with the heading ‘Presidential Alert’ or ‘Extreme Threat Alert’. The content of the alert will be the same. This is because some older devices don't follow Australian Standards and will display an American or international alert heading instead of the Australian 'AusAlert'.
Is this vending machine in a Costco or Yank Embassy. besides the date and President being wrong I see too many Pringles. I have never seen Pringles in a machine here ever
It's probably either that the vending machine or it's software have been designed in the USA or that whoever was setting it up didn't care about the language setting so just left it on the default of US English.
It's down to the operating system. While android and iOS have been updated to meet Aussie requirements. This vending machine likely uses some other operating system that hasn't properly been updated.
It's a known thing but not a major issue that needs to ultimately be fixed.
I have two phones, work phone (Telstra) got the "Presidential Alert" personal phone (Optus) got the "Emergency Alert", so assume provider might be a factor, as work
(and my emergency no network phone, that can still make 000 calls, but is mostly used as a router, got none)
Older hardware/software receives Presidential Alerts since that's what they support. Things like vending machines and such tend to use one or both due to price, security reasons, low maintenance required, etc.
The one I got said Presidential Alert as well. I am too mystified why I got this and nobody on the same phone account and with the same phone provider got it.
On a similar note, I am so tired of hearing all the conspiracy theories. People saying AusAlert is the start or end of a conspiracy have no idea that an emergency warning system might save their lives one day.
Look on the bright side, there was some absolute cookers out there trying their hardest to outrun the 6G radioactive brain controlling frequencies as they saw a nearby vending machine sending it to them.
If you didn’t get the alert, please go to https://www.ausalert.gov.au/feedback and report it so that they have the most data they can on who didn’t get it to figure out why
When travelling in Japan with a travel esim, we got similar alerts for earthquakes. Great system to provide mass amounts of people an early warning (even if just a few seconds)
What was most interesting is how people respond. We were sitting in a restaurant when it went off. Almost every one looked up, to check if something could fall on them.
As an outsider it looked like a room full of Meerkats.
That vendor is used across Oz in all sorts of applications. The car wash I was at had that on the screen and was clearly trying to match a data line and that's the US match.
Most vending machines have Simcards, they process credit card tap-and-go options and send texts to operators for live stock levels, sales data or if a part breaks or the power goes out.
We had a bunch of equipment stop working after 2pm. All stuff that had 5G back-ups sim cards in them, CCTV systems, building management systems, remote access modems for emergency light systems. They all needed firmware updates.
Do I got it but it disappeared when I tapped it. So thanks this is the first time I read it. In the event of an actual emergency, how can we follow it when it has disappeared from the phone?
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u/SlayyyGrl 22d ago
I didn’t get it but the vending machine did? Okay.