: Later today (July 27) 2:pm nsw time the government will issue what is called aus alert which means every phone in Australia will have an alarm at the exact same time. If you are someone that uses a safety phone it is best to turn it off for 24 hours. I would also recommend avoiding traffic or any situation that could cause danger to the governments poorly planned aus alert. I hope this does not cause to much chaos.
I had a look through my phones (fold7, latest OneUI/android versions, Telstra eSim) emergency alert settings this morning and found that “critical alerts” were actually disabled, so I enabled them and sure enough the alert came through as expected.
Not sure if it would have worked the same way if I hadn’t enabled that setting, but there are a lot of settings in there for different types of emergency alerts, so I suspect there are going to be a few people who’d phones support it, but the options are disabled
my bosses phone is an old google pixel 4, it worked just fine too.