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Right, but since we're dealing with addiction, I'd just reinstall it after 30 minutes.

Aerbil313 1y ago
There are 2 bypass-free self-restriction (or self-liberation!) solutions for the iPhone. The first is is supervised MDM. If you have a Mac you can do it yourself (though you need to learn iPhone MDM). You can also pay companies like TechLockdown, they'll give you a customized remote-controlled profile to install that is not removable at a weak moment. You can set a lock with delay. When you need to wait 6 hours to change the settings, you won't be changing your settings to allow $ADDICTIVE_APP. The second option is much more complicated and has some caveats, like an inability to update apps, but I'll explain it since nobody seem to know about it. There is a way to turn an iPhone into a dumbphone, while keeping your banking app, without a Mac, for free. Go to Settings > Screen Time: - Set up a PIN for Screen Time. You’ll be asked to provide a recovery account. Create another Apple account with a password hard to memorize, like sjhr3762962826. Write that down. - In Content Restrictions > App Store, Media, Web, & Games > Web Content, set it to Only Approved Websites. Add all the websites you need to use in your daily life. Start simple, you'll quickly discover which ones you actually need. I'll let you in on a little secret: You don't need news.ycombinator.com in your pocket. - In Content Restrictions > iTunes & App Store purchases, disallow Installing Apps. - Personally, I also delete all apps that have any sort of infinite online content (even Wikipedia). - Set up Downtime for when you are supposed to be asleep. - Set up Always Allowed for critical apps which you might need even during your usual sleep hours (Health app, WhatsApp, Google Maps, etc.) - Final step: Let a very close person (like family member) change the Screen Time PIN, and let him write it down somewhere safe. Then give the password and the PIN to the person for safekeeping. When you need to change the settings (you want to add another allowed website, you want to install a new app, etc.) ask that person to make the change. There is a way you can not rely on another person, too. I won't detail it here, but it involves timelocking the Apple account's password and the Screen Time PIN. See https://github.com/rayanamal/timelock https://github.com/rayanamal/timelock With this setup, you can’t change the Screen Time settings yourself, and you can’t reset the PIN using “I forgot the PIN” button either.
- puttycat 1y ago
  Oh wow thank you, I've been searching for something like this for a long time.
  - Aerbil313 1y ago
    One thing I forgot to mention. Every Apple account has a phone number tied to it for 2FA. That secondary recovery account should have a phone number you have no access to, otherwise you can reset its password. You can get a SIM, use it for account creation and then throw it away (though I doubt most people will need measures this extreme). There are further edge cases that I won't go into here, feel free to email me if you run into one. Brought to you by years of undiagnosed severe ADHD.

There are 2 bypass-free self-restriction (or self-liberation!) solutions for the iPhone. The first is is supervised MDM. If you have a Mac you can do it yourself (though you need to learn iPhone MDM). You can also pay companies like TechLockdown, they'll give you a customized remote-controlled profile to install that is not removable at a weak moment. You can set a lock with delay. When you need to wait 6 hours to change the settings, you won't be changing your settings to allow $ADDICTIVE_APP. The second option is much more complicated and has some caveats, like an inability to update apps, but I'll explain it since nobody seem to know about it. There is a way to turn an iPhone into a dumbphone, while keeping your banking app, without a Mac, for free. Go to Settings > Screen Time: - Set up a PIN for Screen Time. You’ll be asked to provide a recovery account. Create another Apple account with a password hard to memorize, like sjhr3762962826. Write that down. - In Content Restrictions > App Store, Media, Web, & Games > Web Content, set it to Only Approved Websites. Add all the websites you need to use in your daily life. Start simple, you'll quickly discover which ones you actually need. I'll let you in on a little secret: You don't need news.ycombinator.com in your pocket. - In Content Restrictions > iTunes & App Store purchases, disallow Installing Apps. - Personally, I also delete all apps that have any sort of infinite online content (even Wikipedia). - Set up Downtime for when you are supposed to be asleep. - Set up Always Allowed for critical apps which you might need even during your usual sleep hours (Health app, WhatsApp, Google Maps, etc.) - Final step: Let a very close person (like family member) change the Screen Time PIN, and let him write it down somewhere safe. Then give the password and the PIN to the person for safekeeping. When you need to change the settings (you want to add another allowed website, you want to install a new app, etc.) ask that person to make the change. There is a way you can not rely on another person, too. I won't detail it here, but it involves timelocking the Apple account's password and the Screen Time PIN. See https://github.com/rayanamal/timelock https://github.com/rayanamal/timelock With this setup, you can’t change the Screen Time settings yourself, and you can’t reset the PIN using “I forgot the PIN” button either.

puttycat 1y ago
Oh wow thank you, I've been searching for something like this for a long time.
- Aerbil313 1y ago
  One thing I forgot to mention. Every Apple account has a phone number tied to it for 2FA. That secondary recovery account should have a phone number you have no access to, otherwise you can reset its password. You can get a SIM, use it for account creation and then throw it away (though I doubt most people will need measures this extreme). There are further edge cases that I won't go into here, feel free to email me if you run into one. Brought to you by years of undiagnosed severe ADHD.