Guides
How it works underneath.
Most of what surprises people about a Screen Time app is imposed by iOS, not chosen by the app. These guides explain the mechanism, including the parts that are inconvenient for us.
What Apple's Screen Time will and won't let an app do
Most of what surprises people about an app blocker on iPhone or iPad is imposed by Apple, not chosen by the app. Here's the whole list, and what each one means in practice.
Read the guideHow app blocking actually works on iPhone and iPad
The difference between a blocker that holds and one that nags is which process is doing the enforcing. Here's what's happening underneath, and how to tell the two apart.
Read the guideWhat a focus app can see about you
This category asks for more sensitive permissions than almost any other. Here's what you're really handing over, and how to tell a structural privacy guarantee from a promise.
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