FAQ - Revise articles about incompatibility warning card
See original GitHub issueWhere to find the issue
https://www.coronawarn.app/de/faq/#incompatibility_warning https://www.coronawarn.app/en/faq/#incompatibility_warning
Describe the issue
We agreed in https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-website/pull/1211#discussion_r627438916 to split the article in two new articles to make it more user-friendly. The problem with the current article are:
- Partial and full incompatibility are mixed which can lead to the wrong assumption that the app doesn’t work at all
- A lot of users wrongly assumed that the incompatibility was caused by release 2.2, while in fact it was only made visible by the new checks (see https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-app-android/issues/3170)
- The wording/terminology used in the article turned out to be too technical in some places as we know from app store reviews (e.g. peripheral mode, BLE, bluetooth chip).
Suggested change
Make two new FAQ articles for the changes introduced in 2.3: https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-app-android/pull/3101
part_incompat
should explain partial incompatabilityfull_incompat
should explain full incompatibility
The version number was added by @MikeMcC399 in https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-website/pull/1275
However, the sentence could be improved (https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-website/pull/1275#discussion_r633271249). Maybe we should start the first sentence with this information:
“Since CWA release 2.2, the app will check if your device is fully capable to exchange random IDs…”
We may need to drop most technical terms and focus more more on the outcome of incompatibility, e.g. instead of
Because of it, the Corona-Warn-App cannot use Bluetooth Low Energy in its so-called “peripheral mode”.
we should use
This means that your device is unable to send random IDs to other devices. However, you are still able to receive random IDs. Your own risk assesment is therefore not affected.
The term “incompatibility” can also be a bit problematic IMO, so we maybe have to choose a more “tame” term in the app and the FAQ.
Store reviews for context
Ich nutze die App von Anfang an und finde sie gut und sinnvoll. Besonders die Erweiterungen. Seit dem heutigen Update auf 2.2.1 leider eine Inkompatibilitätsmeldung. Angeblich kann mein Bluetooth keine Warnungen verschicken, sondern nur empfangen. Das ist natürlich nicht sinnvoll. Bisher hatte ich die Meldung nicht. Was ist da los? Ich habe keine Änderungen an den Einstellungen vorgenommen […].
Seit dem letzten Update v. 10.05. ist mein Bluetooth Chip plötzlich inkompatibel. Das kann ja wohl nicht sein. Mit der Vorgängerversion wieder alles okay. Geht das bei der Corona App jetzt genauso wie bei den meisten Banking Apps? Jedes Update eine Verschlimmbesserung?
Nach dem Update vom 10/5 jetzt eine Inkompatibilität-swarnung weil Bluetooth Warnungen empfangen aber nicht senden kann.
Ich habe Android 6 Eine App die 60.000.000€ in der Entwicklung gekostet hat zeigt nun an,das mein älteres Snartphone wofür es keine Updates mehr gibt inkompatibele Probleme hat. Eine App für diese Wichtigkeit sollte auf jeden Smartphone funktionieren egal wie alt Android auch ist. Da versagen staatliche Programmierer.
Seit dem Update auf die Version 2.2.1 bekommen wir eine Inkompatibilitätsmeldung bei Bluetooth. Bis zu diese Version kamen keine Meldungen. Bitte korrigieren.
Issue Analytics
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- Created 2 years ago
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Top GitHub Comments
I don’t expect there to be too much technical information for our new entries. I agree that we should be able to fit them in the end like has been suggested.
It is sad to hear that people are judging the app based on such inaccurate assumptions.
Can’t exactly fix the older versions to also show the warning, can we? 😦
I think this one also includes a misunderstanding about whether the part with the full incompatibility applies to them. I’m glad we’ll be able to fix this for the next version!
Sounds like a good idea. I’d have thought of the word “broadcasting” for this but it doesn’t have a nice German translation and also doesn’t fit too well…
I’m assuming you meant an “(i)” icon here?
I have opened a new Android issue to discuss these two items further: https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-app-android/issues/3260
@Ein-Tim @fynngodau @MikeMcC399 @vaubaehn @dsarkar
I’ve added a few reviews from the store, so we can better judge where the problems with the current message are. Most of them are misinterpretations of the warning card.