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dotheshit app locker · Android 8.0 and newer · iPhone on iOS 16 and later

You pick the apps. You pick the time. You hold the bar for three seconds. Then the apps you picked put up a wall until the time you picked runs out. There is no stop button, because you asked for there to be no stop button.

The limits, stated plainly

• Safe mode and a factory reset beat any blocker app, this one included. They take real, deliberate effort, which is the entire mechanism.
• Deleting the app ends the lock. On iOS, Apple gives every app the right to be deleted and does not let this one opt out. On Android the app can make itself slow and awkward to remove, but not impossible.
• Force-stopping it on Android kills the guard until it restarts itself. The clock keeps running either way.
• On iOS the shortest lock is 15 minutes. Apple's scheduler refuses anything shorter. Every preset is 30 minutes or longer, so you will not meet this.
• One phone. The lock applies to the phone you set it on. It does not reach your tablet, your computer, or anybody else's device.
• On iOS, Screen Time has to be on. The lock is built on Apple's own Screen Time system, so if Screen Time is off in Settings the app cannot shield anything.

Installing the Android app

Copy the app file onto your phone and tap it. Android asks for permission to install from this source, which it does for every app that does not come from the Play Store. Then the app walks you through the permissions in plain words and tells you when you are ready. It takes about two minutes.

Questions

I need to unlock early.

You cannot, and that is the product. The lock ends by itself at the time you chose. If you genuinely must end it, delete the app, and put it back afterwards.

Will it delete my apps or my data?

No. Nothing is removed. The apps are hidden behind a wall and come back exactly as they were.

What does it know about me?

Nothing. On Android it never requests internet permission, so the system will not let it send anything anywhere. On iOS, Apple hands it anonymous tokens rather than app names, so it cannot see which apps you chose or anything inside them. Full detail on the privacy page.

Why does it need accessibility access on Android?

That is how it knows which app you just opened, and it is the only way to draw the wall. It is an invasive permission, which is exactly why the complete source code ships with the app. Read it before you trust it.

The permission sheet did not appear, or I said no.

On iOS, open Settings, then Screen Time, and turn it on. Then open dotheshit and tap CHOOSE again. iOS asks once and remembers. On Android, open the app and follow the setup line, which names each permission and links straight to it.

I locked something I actually needed.

Wait it out or delete the app. Next time, lock less. The app is deliberately bad at negotiating.

Is it on iPhone yet?

Not yet. It is built and waiting on Apple.

Something is broken.

Write, and say which phone and which version of Android or iOS. It gets read by the person who built it.

Contact

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