COVIDSafe 4+

I think the idea behind this App is great. Living in lockdown Melbourne now, I do wish that this App could play more part in ending the lockdown sooner and keep us open.

I have downloaded this App, but usually I would have forgotten to turn it on before I leave house. While it could be said I, and every Australians, should have a habit to turn it on; wouldn’t it be better if the App send a reminder to turn this thing on if it is detected that we are out of the house?

Programmer myself but not an App developer, so please pardon me if I am throwing infeasible ideas... but I do think the detection of leaving an area (using location service) or a lost of WiFi signal could be a trigger?

Those saying they can’t get their number recognised, have you tried leaving off the leading zero? Because the app has the +61 at the front this usually means you enter your phone number without the leading zero. I imagine they’ve put the 61 there to ensure that only Australian numbers can participate, which is sensible. I left off the leading zero and got in straight away with no issues at all.

I think this app is a great initiative. I’m not worried about the so called problems of authorities knowing where I am. They can already do that anyway through the phone’s location service and through the gps on my car. This is designed for better tracing of who you happen to be around in the shops or at work or wherever, to meet the response to the virus, so I’ll support it.

I have faithfully and obediently downloaded this app. To my annoyance it has to be kept running in the background to operate.

There is no other app that I keep running, I regularly clear apps from background processes so this is very annoying.

the app requires location tracking to be turned on. Again I obediently fall in line so now my phone permanently displays a blue bar at the top of my phone screen to tell me an app is using location tracking in the background. I hate this.

Probably the most enfuriating thing about it is that although I have obediently and religiously kept it running in the background, something which goes against the grain for me, the app regularly displays pop ups telling me to load the app and to keep it running in the background. A little bit of common sense and not displaying that notification if the app is actually running would be good.

And FYI australian health service. My recent response when getting that popup screen despite running the app in the background continuously for many months is to get so irritated that I close it down instead. So maybe get your developers to use their brain and pull their finger out as the saying goes and make some changes which at least acknowledge the efforts of people trying to do the right thing instead of constantly annoying them.