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Screen time guides
Practical writing on screen time, app blocking and phone habits. Each guide answers one question properly rather than surveying the topic, and they are written to be useful whether or not you ever install Quietly.
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App blocking
What the tools on iPhone actually do, and where each of them stops working.
App blocking
How to block apps on iPhone
Downtime, App Limits, Focus modes, deleting the app, and third-party blockers. What each is good at and where each one breaks down.
App blocking
Best screen time apps for iPhone
The four shapes these apps come in: trackers, limits, delays and blockers. Which shape suits which problem.
Phone habits
Why the reaching happens, and what actually interrupts it.
Phone habits
Why you keep opening apps without thinking
The loop behind automatic opens, why willpower is the wrong tool for it, and why a two-second pause works better than a rule.
Digital wellbeing
How to stop scrolling before bed
What makes the last hour of the day the hardest one to protect, and the setup that protects it without relying on you being sensible at 23:40.
Comparisons
Written to be fair. If the other tool is the right one for you, the guide says so.
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Quietly vs Apple's Screen Time
Apple's reporting is better and it is free. Where the difference actually lies is the Ignore Limit tap.
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How Quietly works
Permission, apps, routines, friction and passes, in the order you meet them.
Quietly is on the App Store
Pick your apps, set one routine, and see how many opens were never really decisions.