The NINA warning app (emergency information and news app) warns you of dangers throughout Germany, including your current location if you wish. The app is provided by the Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK).
The technical starting point for NINA is the federal modular warning system (MoWaS). This is operated by the BBK for nationwide civil defense warnings. Since 2013, all situation centers in the federal states and many already connected control centers in cities and municipalities have been able to use the warning system (http://www.bbk.bund.de/DE/NINA/Warnung/Warnung.html).
Note: Alerts about local events are not available everywhere. Please find out from your district or city which options are used to warn the population there.
With NINA you receive:
• Warning messages from civil protection with recommendations for action
• Weather warnings from the DWD (Germany-wide for all districts and cities)
• Flood
information (Germany-wide at state level) • General emergency tips so that you can protect yourself and others from possible dangers.
NINA allows you to select locations for which you want to receive alerts. These are displayed in the “My Places” overview. In the settings menu, you can specify the warning level at which you should be informed via push notification. Optionally, you can also receive alerts for your current location. No location data is saved on our servers. Please note: In order to be able to display location-related warnings correctly, NINA must be able to determine your location. Bad reception can lead to incorrect displays.
The danger area of a warning can be displayed in the map view. The flood information is currently only issued at the state level. All warning messages are displayed on the map, even if you have not selected the location.
The emergency tips contain recommendations on topics such as floods, storms, power outages, fires and special danger situations. Find out how you can prepare for such events. You will also find instructions on how to act in the event that you are affected by an event. You can get started right away with the practical checklists.
Notes on permissions in the app:
Access to the memory (Android 8 and higher): The NINA warning app offers the option of copying the well-known siren tone to the smartphone. This authorization is required to enable copying. After the copying process has been completed, the authorization can be removed again. Authorization is not required for the warning app to function.
Own location: Warning messages for your current location are only possible when using GPS, WiFi and other geolocation services. If you have deactivated these services on your device, you will not receive any location-related alerts.
Do you have any questions about the NINA warning app or would you like to give us your feedback? Then please contact nina@bbk.bund.de. Further information is also available at http://www.bbk.bund.de/NINA.
Important:
You can only receive warnings and information with a data connection (via WLAN or mobile). If your device does not have a data connection, the last status saved on the device is displayed.
The update includes improvements in the area of flood warnings. In addition, some bugs have been fixed.
Bug Fixes
The new version of the app again makes it possible to subscribe to weather warnings of the "Distinctive Weather" level via push.
In addition, minor bugs have been fixed.
- Fixed a bug when using the warning app in the WLAN
- Correction when displaying links in warning texts
- The warning app NINA now has a dark mode
- There is now a brief one-time explanation for certain functions
- Instead of a warning level, the 7-day incidence for a subscribed location is now displayed
- Certain links in warning messages are again clickable
- More bug fixes
- Implementation of the Matomo analysis tool (opt-in)
- Bug fixes,
- A bug has been fixed that caused stuttering in the dashboard when reloading
- Fixed bug when subscribing to the location
- Further bug fixes
With version 3.3.1 Android 6 or higher is required
- Each subscribed location now also contains information on local corona regulations at district level
- The warning app can now be used in the languages: German, German (easy language), English, French , Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Arabic
- With the new sorting function, warning messages can be rearranged within a location tile
- Integration of a map for the spread of the corona
- troubleshooting
Bug fixes
Everything at a glance
- In the new overview you can see all warning messages for your locations directly
- Messages are marked with their warning level
- You can find important functions in the practical tabbar. Be
warned more precisely
- When adding locations, you can now search for municipalities or streets
- Selectable warning areas now include counties, municipalities and districts
3.0.1:
- Correction of crashes on tablets
- Fixing of further crashes
everything at a glance
- The new overview you can directly see all alerts for your places
- messages are identified by their alert level
- Important functions can be found in the practical Tabbar
specifically warned to be
- When adding locations, you can now search for municipalities or streets
- Selectable warning areas now include districts, municipalities and districts
Adaptation in the data transfer
- Adjustment of the warning levels for civil protection:
* Another Added warning level for civil protection warnings. With three warning levels, messages should be able to be differentiated more clearly. For a more detailed explanation of the warning levels, read the description in the settings menu.
- New design of the settings menu
- Correction of the location authorization under Android 10
- Bugfix when copying the siren tone under Android 10
- Bug fix for copying the siren to the smartphone (Android 8.0+)
- The zoom on a warning area from the detail view has been corrected
- BIWAPP messages are now the validity period displayed
- Bug fixes
- The highest warning level can no longer be deactivated
- Tiles that only contain the all-clear can be opened again
- Improvement of the location function
- A bug has been fixed that caused the app to crash when selecting a warning tone
- The warning siren is available in the settings for Android 8.0+
- Redesign of the settings & the detailed view for warning messages
- Restructuring of the app menu
- Further bug fixes
- Troubleshooting
- Fixed bugs that crashed on Huawei and Xiaomi smartphones
- Reduced data retrieval to avoid long load times ("hourglass display") at high load,
- Bug fixes when displaying push notifications.
- improvement of the location function,
- fixed several bugs that could cause crashes
- remove unwanted WLAN permission,
- improved performance.
Fixes an error that can trigger the receipt of push messages for the wrong location.
Stability Update: Fixed an issue that caused crashes.
- Subscribed locations that match the "Current Location" are grouped together - Delete function: Places can be deleted after a long press with the appearing recycle bin - Sort function: Places can be moved with Print & Hold - Improved location search: sorting by proximity, new scroll bar for initial letter search - Notifications are stacked - Graphical optimization - Bug fixes & Stability improvement, fixed empty warnings from 2.1.0
Improved support for devices with new energy management
