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Warning to aussie phone users today july 27 2026
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My concern with it was more the expectation that safety phones be turned off for 24 hours which is not really an option and the deadline being to early because people can still miss it when you are trying to advertise to an entire population.
What do you want them to do though, create a national registry of safety phones to exclude from the tests? Or not test the system, and then not have alerts go off when natural disasters hit? [This has been known was going to happen for over six months] (https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/emergency-warning-text-and-siren-to-be-sent-to-every-phone-in-australia-20260226-p5o5kh.html)
I just think they should respect device settings and not try to override them. Also a national registry would be silly and cause more trouble than it fixes.
My point.