@nathanael, and would you say that travelling to Spain right now, in Covid-19 times, is a brilliant idea and would you advise others to leave their mobile phones at home this September and October? If you fly directly to Spain, you need to present the obligatory SpTh code at the airport - it's a lot less hassle when you did your part in advance on your mobile phone and present the code at border control. Authorities may need to contact you for Covid-19 tracing - you make their arduous work a lot easier when you have a mobile phone with you. Covid-19 measures may be introduced by the national, regional or local authorities at short notice while you walk and may affect you - it will be so much easier for you to COMPLY when you stay up to date thanks to your mobile phone.
@jgiesbrecht, there is a remote possibility that a text message sent from Spain to a UK mobile phone number in Canada is not received. However, I'd be too curious to wait until I'm in Spain
. I'd probably send, or have a friend send, a text message to the mobile phone and I'd check again that I had entered the phone number correctly both in the window where I had registered the Alert Cop app and in the window where I had activated it. The country code must be set to +44 for the UK (not to the preset number which +34 for Spain) and the UK mobile phone number must be entered without the leading 0, as already mentioned. Best of luck.