Screen Time Blocking on iPhone

It catches the reach, not the hour

Most screen-time tools report on you after the fact: a weekly number, delivered on Sunday, about a week you can no longer change. Mindful Pause works at the moment of the reach — the two seconds between picking up the phone and being three minutes into a feed.

You pick the apps. When one of them opens, iOS hands control to Champ and you get a shield instead of the app. That is the whole intervention: a gap where an automatic action used to be.

The deal is honest: you can always get through

Champ is not a lock. Every shield offers a way past it, and the app tells you so during setup rather than pretending otherwise. Blockers that cannot be bypassed get uninstalled in a week; blockers that add three seconds of friction get kept.

What changes is that opening the app becomes a choice you made rather than a thing your thumb did.

Routines for the hours that matter

Beyond always-on shields, you can set routines — Morning, Focus, and Wind Down — that switch protection on for a window of the day and off again afterwards. Wind Down pairs with your sleep time so the phone gets quieter as the evening does.

Your usage data never leaves your phone

Apple’s Screen Time framework is deliberately built so that app-usage data stays on-device — Champ runs inside that sandbox and cannot read your usage out of it, let alone upload it. There is no screen-time dashboard on our servers because there is no screen-time data on our servers.

Questions about screen time blocking