An emergency test alarm system went off on millions of people's smartphones at 15:00 on Sunday.
Many people on social media reported the alert went off one minute earlier or later than planned, when a loud, buzzing alarm rang out and the words "severe alert" flashed up on their phones' screens.Twitter user Lucy wrote: "Kind of disappointed to not get one."While a third said: "I did not turn off alerts but I never got the text or the noise alert!"
Andrew Hamilton, a member of the UK Youth Parliament for North Down, who is also blind, called the alert "inaccessible". People were further advised to ensure their phones had all the latest software updates, including iPhones running iOS 14.5 or later and Android phones and tablets running Android 11 or later.as the words "others safe" appeared in the message as "eraill yn Vogel" rather than "eraill yn ddiogel" in Welsh.
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