Test and trace app has just pinged....

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and I have to isolate for 13 days . However, I have been to the supermarket once in the last 7days and didn’t take my phone, I have been for 2 walks and didn’t take my phone. I haven’t been in anyone’s company for 15 minutes or more.
Does anyone know the time frame between someone that I may have been in contact with testing positive and the app pinging?
I have wracked my brains and can only think it was a British Gas engineer who came round before Christmas.
Could it be my next door neighbour, who I haven’t seen but could have been ‘near’ albeit divided by an adjoining wall ?

Oh that’s rubbish. I thought the maximum was 10 days now.
DH got pinged 6 days, in ‘about this app’ it told him he’d been exposed on 23rd. Like you, he hadn’t been anywhere for long enough. It’s a mystery!

He was fine, hope you stay well too

13 days seems weird?!

13 days? Must be a glitch. It's 10 day isolation from contact now!

The app doesn't go off until the person with the positive test puts the code into the app. In our case it was a couple of days after receiving the results! Luckily DS hadnt been out so anyone who got a notification already knew they needed to self isolate...

The app isn’t very good, my husband and I both had Covid and it gave us totally different dates for all of the official NHS emails and calls we received.

Delete and reinstall the app. Maximum isolation period is now 10 days not 14 so I don't think your app has updated properly

Also there's a bit in the app that tells you when contact was

@dementedpixie is there ? I looked but couldn’t see anything like that

Click on 'about this app' and then 'manage my data' and it will tell you your 'encounter date'

Weird !

Friend got pinged and told to isolate due to a contact in a specific date- she hadn't left the house on that date!

Is that the nhs app? Go into the app itself and do what @Cyclewidow46 says

Plus other threads have said the app hasn't updated until they deleted and reinstalled it

Encounter date was the 8th , but I’m sure I haven’t taken my phone anywhere with me.

Does it work through walls ?

That was yesterday
Were you out anywhere?
Whats the point having the app if you don't take the phone with you and are then wanting to ignore it when it tells you to isolate?

Who said anything about ignoring it ?

Did you go anywhere yesterday?

I got pinged a few days ago - possibly my dash into Asda. Since then I have found out that you need to have been within 1m of someone for 1 minute or with in 2 m of someone for 15 who later entered a positive result . Apparently.

I went into my front garden yesterday but didn’t come anywhere near 2 metres of anyone .

Yeah you can get pinged through the walls. Which is why I don't use it since mine and my neighbors beds are about 4 inches apart.

I've heard you can call and get 'let out' as it were by track & trace if you haven't been out on the trace date.

Hope that helps X u get caught so you have to isolate but you can't get a test unless u show symptoms ...and even if you did do a test and were negative you still have to isolate. :(

I am sorry op it does suck.

I am baffled, it can only be a neighbour, I’ll check with them tomorrow.

I’m furloughed anyway and really only go out food shopping or for a walk.

You dont have to isolate
You only have to isolate if contacted by track and trace as a named contact.

Just be cautious.