Screen time, minus the willpower
Paused blocks the apps that eat your day — on a schedule or in one tap — so you get your evenings, your focus, and your mornings back.
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Instagram, TikTok & YouTube are off until 5:00 PM
How it works
Choose the apps that suck you in — TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, games, whatever your kryptonite is. Everything else stays untouched.
Block Schedules turn those apps off automatically at bedtime or work hours. Or tap Focus for on-demand quiet, right now, for as long as you like.
Every paused day stacks your streak. Watch the time you’d have scrolled turn back into evenings, sleep, and actual life.
What you get
Apple’s Screen Time shows you the damage after it’s done. Paused stops it before it starts — with blocks that actually hold, and a streak that makes keeping them feel good.
Set the hours — 10pm to 7am, 9 to 5, whenever — and the apps you pick turn off automatically and back on after. No willpower, no reminders, no tapping past a limit.
Need to lock in right now? Start a Focus session, pick how long, and your distraction apps are gone until the timer ends. Great for a 25-minute sprint or a phone-free dinner.
Every day you keep the scroll paused stacks your streak. It turns “I should use my phone less” into a game you actually want to keep playing.
Made for
A bedtime Block Schedule turns the feed off before it turns your night into 1am.
Learn more →One tap starts a Focus session and the distracting apps vanish until you’re done.
Learn more →Blocking the reflex apps breaks the muscle-memory tap that starts every scroll.
Learn more →Maps, messages and music keep working — only the time-sinks you picked go dark.
Learn more →Every day you keep the scroll paused stacks your streak — the tiny win that keeps you going.
Learn more →A wake-up schedule keeps the first hour yours — coffee and daylight, not the For You page.
Learn more →Private by design
Paused runs on Apple’s Screen Time framework, so it turns apps off without ever seeing your messages, your browsing, or what you do inside them. Your habits stay yours — that’s the whole point.
Questions
Decide which apps eat your time, then put a wall between you and the impulse: Paused blocks them on a schedule (like 10pm–7am) or the second you start a focus session — so “just one more video” never gets the chance.
Learn more →Yes — Block Schedules turn distracting apps off automatically at the times you choose (bedtime, work hours, the school run) and back on afterwards, every day, without you lifting a finger.
Learn more →Apple’s Screen Time is free and powerful but fiddly, easy to tap past, and easy to forget. Paused is built for one job — actually stopping the scroll — with one-tap focus sessions, schedules that stick, and streaks that make it a game.
Learn more →Yes — start a Focus session and Paused blocks the apps you pick for as long as you set. It’s the fastest way to make Instagram, TikTok and the rest disappear while you get the deep work done.
Learn more →Yes — pick any apps on your iPhone, including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X and games, and Paused blocks exactly those. Everything else keeps working normally.
Learn more →A Focus session is on-demand blocking: tap once, pick how long, and your chosen apps are locked until the timer ends. Perfect for a 25-minute sprint, a two-hour study block, or a phone-free dinner.
Learn more →Paused uses Apple’s Screen Time (Family Controls) framework, which lets it block apps without ever seeing your messages, your browsing, or what you do inside any app. Your usage stays on your device.
Learn more →Instead of the app, you get a calm Paused screen — a gentle nudge that this one is blocked right now and a reminder of why you set it. No shame, just a pause long enough to change your mind.
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