A little less pull. A little more choice.

Give your good intentions some space.

Put a practical boundary around the apps that tend to interrupt your routine. You choose what is worth protecting.

A habit before a distraction.

A goal can shield the apps, categories or websites you select through Screen Time on supported devices. Meeting that goal releases its restriction for the current period. A new scheduled period can apply it again; other active restrictions may still apply.

A limit is a different tool.

An app-limit goal gives selected distractions a daily time budget. It can cover them together or give each selected item a limit. Screen Time reports threshold updates, so the display is not a precise live stopwatch of your app usage.

You keep the last word.

Temporary allowances let you access restricted apps for 15 minutes, an hour or the rest of today. Paused, archived and unscheduled goals do not apply their goal-linked blocks. These are voluntary boundaries, not unbreakable parental controls.

Health updates have their own timing.

A Health-based goal depends on the next available measurement and background update. Reaching a target does not guarantee instant unlocking. Opening HBTT can refresh the progress when the device can access Health data.

Read18 of 20 pages

Screen timeTime’s up

Social stays blocked until Read is met. Tap the plus to log a page.

This example doesn’t block apps. In the app, Screen Time shows the shield, and Health goals may unlock only after the next background update.

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