Daughter downloaded the app

[Pissedoff1234]

My 16 year old daughter has just downloaded the app. The first time she opened it, it said she had to self isolate.

She hasn't been out of the house since Wednesday. I'm very confused. I've had the app for ages and it's never notified me about anything and when I open it, it just says that it is active and scanning.

[MitziK]

She isn't allowed anywhere other than college, to do your shopping or to pick your younger children up from school?


No wonder she deleted the app.

[conkersarebonkers]

Is it possible that she downloaded the app in the past just to see what it was like (therefore enabling the exposure logs/checks), then reinstalled it after asking you if it was OK?

[conkersarebonkers]

Oh, just caught up with the rest of the thread! Mystery solved!

[theThreeofWeevils]

@MitziK

She isn't allowed anywhere other than college, to do your shopping or to pick your younger children up from school?

No wonder she deleted the app.

So where, in lockdown, do you think she should have been going?

[MitziK]

To meet a friend outside, get a takeaway, exercise, fresh air, light and freedom within the terms of the restrictions.

She's 16, not 6. Or an au pair.

[PseudoBadger]

"It can't differentiate between thin walls in flats"

Says who? You have no way of tracing who has caused the alert. People just look for ways out of isolating.

[Comefromaway]

Well I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the app alerted the next door neighbour of a colleague of dh’s straight after he entered his positive test result.

[PseudoBadger]

Well it really could be

[PseudoBadger]

faq.covid19.nhs.uk/article/KA-01165/en-us

[Catsmother1]

I had an issue with my app in October. I got a notification to self isolate for 9 days as I’d been in contact with someone. The day it made out I’d been in contact with someone who has tested positive The only people I’d been in contact with that day, were my daughter, her boyfriend, and my husband. None had been tested, and my husband doesn’t even have the app. The only thing I could think of, was my phone pinged with someone else’s, when I was in a traffic jam (stationary) for about twenty minutes.

The other thing that happened, was on day 8 of my isolation (yes, I did isolate) was I got another notification which said ‘good news - your test is negative. You can now end your isolation’. I’ve never been tested!! So obviously something is very wrong. I still have the app, so I can scan at pubs etc - but I have turned off the contact tracing bit.

[Pissedoff1234]

@MitziK

To meet a friend outside, get a takeaway, exercise, fresh air, light and freedom within the terms of the restrictions.

She's 16, not 6. Or an au pair.

Yeah I obviously didn't list every single place she ever goes as I didn't think it was particularly relevant to the question I was asking although the list is kind of boring as, well, we are in lockdown.

Her friends are at different colleges and work different days and by the time they are home it's too late and dark to meet outside because as you say she is only 16. During the summer she was out most nights with friends.

She does go out as often as she wants to go for a walk or to go to the shop and has met one friend too occasionally. She certainly isn't forced to stay in and I'm also well capable of picking up my own children and going to the shop myself or sending DH. She offers to go, I assume, to get a bit more light and freedom. She probably wants to go to college to hang around a guy she fancies. Now I've realised the reason and that it isn't a problem with the app, I get her reasons completely as I was a teenager once too.

[RayOfSunshine2013]

@Pissedoff1234

No, this is saying she has been in contact, app says isolate for 10 days. It's definitely hers as she is devastated she might not be able to go to college as she has an exam after new year so she really needs to be in.

Don’t think downloading the app was the wisest decision if she really has to be in an exam

No app, no phone numbers given = no isolation

[Pissedoff1234]

Her exam is in January. She just needs to do the work for it this year. It probably wasn't the wisest move though. That's kids for you.