In the slim chance that someone from whatever department is responsible for this reads about the user experience of Australians:
You better keep these emergency alert messages to be super simple sentences like "Danger Will Robinson!! Evacuate now!!".
Because once you hit "ok", the message is gone. No retrieving whatever it said.
If there had been emergency phone number or radio frequency in there and I missed it, I can't get whatever the alert said back. That seems stupid to me.
I'm going to boot a phone with no SIM. I'm curious if it will still get it in "SOS calls only" mode.
Was a lot quieter than I expected.
I recommend anyone with a safety phone to turn it off for 24 hours. The AUS Alert overrides your phone settings. I hope this does not cause to much chaos.
Going through the settings in my GrapheneOS phone, it appears you can turn it off, but the government obviously wouldn't want people doing so as it'd be off in a future emergency.
Every cop in Australia looking for drivers to fine for dismissing the alarm.
Lol. I found this post AFTER the alarm
I'm waiting for the marketing guys to all disappear to the pub, like they do for the fire drills etc.
Absolute zip from my phone.
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