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> they’ll need to turn off their phones Apparently if you turn off your phone, the alert will play when you turn it back on. So if everyone in a hospital wing
by Uehreka 3y ago
> they’ll need to turn off their phones
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.
- jjulius 3y agoThe 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]. [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37766253 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37766253