{"id":9733,"date":"2023-04-23T13:37:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T11:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/23\/emergency-alert-test-uk-phone-alarms-to-sound-at-3pm-live-updates\/"},"modified":"2023-04-23T13:37:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T11:37:14","slug":"emergency-alert-test-uk-phone-alarms-to-sound-at-3pm-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/23\/emergency-alert-test-uk-phone-alarms-to-sound-at-3pm-live-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency alert test UK: phone alarms to sound at 3pm \u2013 live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 3pm BST, every phone in Britain is due to receive a loud alarm as a test for future emergencies<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/apr\/21\/how-to-disable-uk-emergency-alerts-on-your-phone\">How to disable UK emergency alerts on your phone<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you want to know more than is strictly necessary about the technical journey behind today\u2019s test, civil servant Frazer Rhodes, who led the emergency alerts process at the environment agency, has written a <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@frazer_HX\/a-history-of-emergency-alerts-in-the-uk-part-1-the-early-d%CC%B6a%CC%B6y%CC%B6s%CC%B6-years-2012-2018-fcd5f28cad88?source=user_profile---------5----------------------------\">three<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@frazer_HX\/a-history-of-emergency-alerts-in-the-uk-part-2-trials-begin-an-opportunity-seized-4816ad56cfca?source=user_profile---------4----------------------------\">part<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@frazer_HX\/a-history-of-emergency-alerts-in-the-uk-part-3-the-final-push-a634a7a921c2?source=user_profile---------3----------------------------\">blog<\/a> series about the development process. Did you know the first iteration of the alerts was known as the \u201cfainting goat rental\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>We had test messages for Alpacas, Capybara and in this case, overly curious llamas. None of these messages were created or sent on the production service of course.<\/p>\n<p>Users were initially mistrusting of the message using language such as scam and pop-up. The inclusion of GOV.UK helped provide some reassurance.<\/p>\n<p>The sound was generally the first thing that attracted their attention and often their first response was to silence this.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/live\/2023\/apr\/23\/emergency-alert-test-uk-phone-alarms-sound-live-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e0a7861c8feb45c1d8c219de99317fea914d25ec\/0_0_1575_945\/master\/1575.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e4ecedde9632767ad508f43c582b0673\" title=\"Emergency alert test UK: phone alarms to sound at 3pm \u2013 live updates\" \/>At 3pm BST, every phone in Britain is due to receive a loud alarm as a test for future emergencies<br \/>\nHow to disable UK emergency alerts on your phone<br \/>\nIf you want to know more than is strictly necessary about the technical journey behind today\u2019s test, civil servant Frazer Rhodes, who led the emergency alerts process at the environment agency, has written a three part blog series about the development process. Did you know the first iteration of the alerts was known as the \u201cfainting goat rental\u201d?<br \/>\nWe had test messages for Alpacas, Capybara and in this case, overly curious llamas. None of these messages were created or sent on the production service of course.<br \/>\nUsers were initially mistrusting of the message using language such as scam and pop-up. The inclusion of GOV.UK helped provide some reassurance.<br \/>\nThe sound was generally the first thing that attracted their attention and often their first response was to silence this. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 3pm BST, every phone in Britain is due to receive a loud alarm as a test for future emergencies How to disable UK emergency alerts on your phone If you want to know more than is strictly necessary about the technical journey behind today\u2019s test, civil servant Frazer Rhodes, who led the emergency alerts &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/23\/emergency-alert-test-uk-phone-alarms-to-sound-at-3pm-live-updates\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Emergency alert test UK: phone alarms to sound at 3pm \u2013 live updates<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9733"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}