Fewer distractions. More of your time.
Practical guides to blocking apps on your iPhone and studying without your phone pulling you back. Specific steps, honest trade-offs.
- How to stop using your phone while studyingA setup that decides once, so you don't fight your phone all evening: distance, blocks, a planned end and breaks that stay breaks.
- QR code app blockers: how they work and how to set one upKeep apps locked until you scan a code on paper. How it works on iPhone, where you might keep the code, and the mistakes that undo it.
- DIY Brick: how to use an NFC tag as an app blocker on iPhoneThe idea behind Brick, built with a sticker that costs less than a coffee. Which tags work on iPhone, where to put them, and the honest trade-offs.
- Why Screen Time limits are so easy to ignore, and how to make them stickThe limit pops up, you tap "Ignore Limit", and the app is back. Why that happens, how to make Screen Time stricter, and when it's enough.
- How to block Instagram on iPhone: the app, the website and the loopholesFrom a gentle limit to a hard block, plus the website loophole and a middle way if you still need your messages.
- How to make an iPhone safe for a child: block apps and adult websitesLending your phone or setting up theirs: which tool fits, how to block apps and adult websites, and what no filter can do.
About these guides
We write them as the people who build Tenki, an iPhone app blocker. That means we have an interest, so we try to be fair about it: where iPhone's built-in tools or another approach fit better, we say so. Menu names in iOS change from version to version; if a step no longer matches your iPhone, tell us at support@gettenki.com and we'll fix it.