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Is anyone still using the NHS track and trace app?

103 replies

zafferana · 06/07/2021 17:27

I heard on Radio 4 today that 25 million people downloaded it, but the govt has no idea how many people are still using it. So are you?

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Purple21 · 06/07/2021 17:27

Nope!

flossletsfloss · 06/07/2021 17:28

Nope

RichardMarxisinnocent · 06/07/2021 17:29

Yes to check in to venues. I have contact tracing switched off.

72WayTooCool · 06/07/2021 17:46

I have it to check in, but contract tracing is turned off. My faith in it being any good vanished on Sunday when DH had a notification to say his isolation was up, which would be all well and good if he'd had the one to isolate in the first place! Not only that, when the contact took place, he was with me and I didn't have a ping at all.

Spudina · 06/07/2021 17:48

No. I had to download it to go to my favourite coffee shop. But I deleted it when I left and now fake signing in. (I sit outside)

changingstages · 06/07/2021 17:49

yep. Used it yesterday. And I have contact tracing switched on. So do my 18 year old DSD and 21 year old DSS (though I think DSS is considering switching contact tracing off).

PiccalilliChilli · 06/07/2021 17:49

No.

NothingIsWrong · 06/07/2021 17:50

I have it to sign in but contact tracing is off.

Sunshinedaisymeadowsxx · 06/07/2021 17:51

No i got rid of it months ago!

shewalkslikerihanna · 06/07/2021 17:51

No
Can’t be doing with the nonsense

Katie517 · 06/07/2021 17:51

No never had it, never will it’s useless. I know who I come into contact with and if they got covid they would tell me, I’m not going to catch it from a fleeting passing of a stranger or from my phone being next to someone else’s phone in the gym locker which happened to my friend!

BlackLambAndGreyFalcon · 06/07/2021 17:52

It's test and trace! Track and trace is a royal mail service.

Yes, using it to check into venues.

CeeceeBloomingdale · 06/07/2021 17:53

No, never even started using it

Spidey66 · 06/07/2021 17:53

@BlackLambAndGreyFalcon

It's test and trace! Track and trace is a royal mail service.

Yes, using it to check into venues.

Beat me to it. Grin

It's test and trace.

I only use it if asked.

RubyGoat · 06/07/2021 17:56

No. I downloaded it, it was terrible for my battery so I uninstalled it. I'm disabled & rely massively on my smartphone for numerous things on the rare occasions I go out. And I've only sat in a cafe twice since the first lockdown. I signed in.

UseOfWeapons · 06/07/2021 17:56

Never had it, never will now. Can’t wait for T&T and QR codes to be a thing of the past in daily life.

PicklesTheCat · 06/07/2021 17:57

Yes, I still use it.

HariboBrenshnio · 06/07/2021 17:58

Never had it. Never will.

EffOrf · 06/07/2021 17:58

No, I did download it though so am in that figure, I deleted it soon after downloading.

Toddlerteaplease · 06/07/2021 17:59

Contact tracing off and fake sign in as well. Will do it if told you though.

motogogo · 06/07/2021 17:59

Never turned on the proximity thing but I use it to check in

Fifthtimelucky · 06/07/2021 18:00

Yes. And I used it today when I took my daughter out to lunch.

Rover83 · 06/07/2021 18:02

No-one I know uses it and most people apparently just photograph QR codes so people assume they signed in

Sparklingbrook · 06/07/2021 18:03

No. The more I hear about it the more I believe it is completely unreliable and not fit for purpose.

Crimeismymiddlename · 06/07/2021 18:03

I deleted it on Sunday. What’s the point of it, it’s not a legal requirement to isolate if you get pinged and frankly am sick of the whole checking into venues nonsense. I also don’t think it works, I work in retail in a consistently ‘high risk’ area, as well as using public transport with my phone on me at all times and it has not pinged once, hard to believe I have not come into contact with anyone one with it.