>This will be fun for my wife who's in the hospital right now. And everyone else in hospitals trying to rest.
That this will be happening today has been publicly communicated for at least a few weeks (as far as I've noticed) now. If that's not enough time for people to realize that, if they want rest, or silence, or whatever, they'll need to turn their phones off around this time, then I don't know what to tell ya.
>Also, will this go off on cellular watches? I'm sure schoolteachers are going to LOVE this... :-/
Same sentiment as above. This isn't just happening to kid's devices, it's happening to teacher's/administrator's phones, too. It'd be no different than a timed emergency drill that folk in schools are anticipating; everyone knows it's coming, there'll be a few minutes of mild commotion, things will die back down.
Apparently if you turn off your phone, the alert will play when you turn it back on. So if everyone in a hospital wing turned off their phone, the alert would “happen” multiple times as people turned their phones on later.
The idea in my post is that you know it's coming when you turn it back on. Someone who wants to sleep can turn their phone off, sleep, and then turn their phone on when they wake up and are expecting it, in the privacy of their own room.
Edit: Not entirely true - it won't receive the emergency signal so long as you keep it off during the 30 minute window[1].
The thing I'm worried about is people in crowded, quiet areas like hospitals who have conditions that trigger on sudden noises or surprises. Many people in the hospital aren't up to speed on the news. Because, you know, they're half-awake and feeling terrible. So when the nurses' and patient's phones all start blaring while they're treating a patient who then has some sort of cardiac or nervous system response to the scary-sounding alarm...
I dunno. Maybe there's no precedent for my worry. But it feels real.
That this will be happening today has been publicly communicated for at least a few weeks (as far as I've noticed) now. If that's not enough time for people to realize that, if they want rest, or silence, or whatever, they'll need to turn their phones off around this time, then I don't know what to tell ya.
>Also, will this go off on cellular watches? I'm sure schoolteachers are going to LOVE this... :-/
Same sentiment as above. This isn't just happening to kid's devices, it's happening to teacher's/administrator's phones, too. It'd be no different than a timed emergency drill that folk in schools are anticipating; everyone knows it's coming, there'll be a few minutes of mild commotion, things will die back down.