Track and trace app

[Rainydayss]

Do you still have it? My friend looked at me in disgust when I said I removed the app.

I have it - makes it easier to enter pubs and restaurants etc. Have heard it is possible to switch off the track and trace function

It's Test and Trace!! Track and Trace is a royal mail parcel tracking service!

Never had it to start with.

@BlackLambAndGreyFalcon

It's Test and Trace!! Track and Trace is a royal mail parcel tracking service!

This is one of my major pet hates too! TEST and TRACE ffs! I don't have the app, never have and never will. You check in somewhere and it doesn't check you out until midnight so you could 'ping' from someone who was there hours after you left.

Test and trace! Oops, I'm oblivious.
Just wondered if if was in the minority of not having it.
My friend is obsessed with all things covid so the conversation wears thin

The trick or treat function will send an alert if you enter a pub at lunchtime then go home and someone covid positive goes there in the evening or that you are on the other side of a window to someone who is positive. The design is clumsy

Never had it - couldn't afford to self isolate if it told me to, thus rendering the whole thing totally pointless, plus I live in a flat and there's been cases of people being told to isolate because their neighbour had Covid and Bluetooth transmits through solid walls

If every supermarket worker had this app I suspect all supermarkets would have been closed within 2 weeks.

I have it but I keep the contact tracing permanently switched off

Never had it.

I used it today for the first time in months to check in somewhere but only becusse they asked me to

I have the NHS app but only have my Bluetooth turned on when using my headphones.

I've never had it. I work in a hospital so would have to have it turned off at work anyway and I don't see the point elsewhere, If I go to a cafe etc I just fill in the slip.

Never had it

@VeniVidiWeeWee

If every supermarket worker had this app I suspect all supermarkets would have been closed within 2 weeks.

Supermarkets should have been treated same as NHS but they’ve not been The app would go off when it was in someone’s locker then the. The full shift would have to isolate This DID happen and supermarkets were really short staffed and it was never really talked about

Never had it, never been asked to have it or sign in anywhere. I'm never out of pubs and bars tbh. Can't see why I'd need it

@fiftiesmum

The trick or treat function will send an alert if you enter a pub at lunchtime then go home and someone covid positive goes there in the evening or that you are on the other side of a window to someone who is positive. The design is clumsy

If you just used the app to check in, but had contact tracing switched off, it will alert you that you might have been in contact with a positive case, but it won't tell you to self isolate.

Info on the different between contact tracing and venue check in are here:
faq.covid19.nhs.uk/article/KA-01312/en-us?parentid=CAT-01035&rootid=

@TentTalk

I've never had it. I work in a hospital so would have to have it turned off at work anyway and I don't see the point elsewhere, If I go to a cafe etc I just fill in the slip.

You have to turn off the contact tracing part of the app when at work, but you can continue to use the check in part of it for restaurants/cafes etc

@DeathByWalkies

Never had it - couldn't afford to self isolate if it told me to, thus rendering the whole thing totally pointless, plus I live in a flat and there's been cases of people being told to isolate because their neighbour had Covid and Bluetooth transmits through solid walls

If you want to avoid being told to self isolate due to a neighbour testing positive, just turn off the contact tracing part of the app when at home. If you want to avoid it ever telling to to self isolate just turn off the contact tracing all the time.

Once I found out that anyone working in an environment where they were likely to come into contact with lots of people (hospitals, Universities, Nurseries, supermarkets, schools, etc) had been told very early on to switch it off at work, it became pretty pointless.

I switched off the contact tracing function but you need the app to actually check in to places

This is one of my major pet hates too! TEST and TRACE ffs! I don't have the app, never have and never will. You check in somewhere and it doesn't check you out until midnight so you could 'ping' from someone who was there hours after you left.

If by ping you mean tell you to self isolate, it won't do that as a result of a venue check in, so you won't be told to self isolate because of someone being at a venue hours after you.

It's the contact tracing part of the app which can detect close contact with someone else's phone. and if that person then tells the app they tested positive you may be told to self isolate if you were in close enough contact for long enough.

Looks like the link didn't work

faq.covid19.nhs.uk/article/KA-01312/en-us?parentid=CAT-01035&rootid=

@RichardMarxisinnocent

This is one of my major pet hates too! TEST and TRACE ffs! I don't have the app, never have and never will. You check in somewhere and it doesn't check you out until midnight so you could 'ping' from someone who was there hours after you left.

If by ping you mean tell you to self isolate, it won't do that as a result of a venue check in, so you won't be told to self isolate because of someone being at a venue hours after you.

It's the contact tracing part of the app which can detect close contact with someone else's phone. and if that person then tells the app they tested positive you may be told to self isolate if you were in close enough contact for long enough.

Not the experience of a very significant number of people I know or work with over the last year.

I have it for easy entry but I have turned off the trace part