Alarm test day is postponed because there are no suitable mobile phones

For most mobile phones currently in use, manufacturers have to update the settings required to receive warning SMS. “In view of the variety of devices sold, however, it is foreseeable that the companies will only update the most successful of their older models,” says the group of German mobile operators. “If we can warn 60 percent of cell phones in Germany in the medium term, that would be a good figure.” The reason for the low rate is also that Apple will only upgrade the alarm function in Germany to newer iPhones in the autumn with the operating system update to iOS 16 becomes. It is not yet clear which older iPhones will also be able to warn.