These false alarms are causing a good deal of confusion, so here is a public health announcement

If you need to self-isolate, the app will tell you. The alert in the app will look like this

Anything else, just ignore it
The other way to tell your notification is a false alarm: it& #39;ll disappear

When you click on the message it takes you to the app, but there& #39;s no message there, no info. It& #39;s like it never happened

This is a big source of anxiety, but it& #39;s actually good news. You& #39;re in the clear
Four false alarms in one day

By the way, I still have no idea what& #39;s *really* going on here https://twitter.com/adamkeyworth/status/1311408323225411584">https://twitter.com/adamkeywo...
UPDATE: what does it mean to say these false alarms are "default messages"?

I just spoke to @NearForm, the developer behind the contact tracing apps in Scotland, N.Ireland, Republic of Ireland and Gibraltar

They say they have NOT seen this problem in any of these countries
Further update to the tale of the contact tracing notifications that aren& #39;t

@comicmuse found where they& #39;re coming from in the code for the Irish app, whose developer says it hasn& #39;t been having these issues. Why? Perhaps because it& #39;s labelled "only used in test"
Whoever is running @NHSCOVID19app is now pretty much full time responding to messages about these notifications

Interesting wording here: an admission they are "false alarms", but only because Google and Apple are sending out "automated messages" https://twitter.com/NHSCOVID19app/status/1311624659977330690">https://twitter.com/NHSCOVID1...
Best thread I& #39;ve seen on the English and Welsh app& #39;s "false alarms". Conclusion: this isn’t a glitch, it& #39;s how the system was designed https://twitter.com/lukeredpath/status/1311663110315405317">https://twitter.com/lukeredpa...
This is the key point. The notifications are provoking anxiety. They& #39;ve forced one man into isolation by mistake

It& #39;s frustrating that the Apple/Google system sends this alert, but was there anything that could have been done to mitigate its effects? https://twitter.com/lukeredpath/status/1311665181605294087">https://twitter.com/lukeredpa...
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