🌱 Getting started with StillMode

1. Allow Screen Time access

StillMode uses Apple's Screen Time technology (Family Controls) to keep apps quiet. During setup iOS asks for permission: tap Continue and confirm with Face ID or your passcode. If you skipped it, StillMode asks again the first time you make a shield.

Apple never shows us which apps you use or what you do in them. The apps you pick are saved as anonymous tokens only iOS can read.

2. Put up a shield

Tap + New shield on the Today or Shields tab and choose how it should work:

• Focus now shields the apps you pick straight away, for as long as you choose.
• On a schedule keeps them quiet during set hours and days, like 9 to 5 on weekdays, or all day.
• Lock an app keeps an app closed and allows a few visits a day.
• Daily limit gives you a time budget (say 30 min), then shields the apps until midnight.
• Earn with habits (StillMode Plus) opens apps as you finish habits like a walk or a few pages of reading.

Pick apps, categories or websites, set the hours, then tap Start focus or Turn on. Prefer a head start? Open Shields › Presets and tap Browse all for the Preset library.

3. Breaks

Any shield can allow a few short breaks a day. Choose what comes first: A short pause (a calm countdown), Say why (write what you're opening it for), Type a code (copy a random code) or Nothing. When you open a shielded app, tap Take a break on the pause screen and StillMode guides you from there.

4. Read your day

The Today tab shows your screen time against your daily goal, an hour-by-hour chart and the apps you used most. Tap the date to look back, and ••• to change your goal and reminders.