Questions and answers

Not instantly, which is the entire design. The secondary button on a block screen starts a live fifteen second countdown and then grants you five minutes. Taking that escape hatch breaks your streak, and a thirty minute cooldown prevents you doing it twice in a row on the same app. Most people close the screen before the countdown finishes.

No. Apple deliberately hands apps an opaque token rather than an app name, so even we cannot read which apps you selected. Everything is computed on your iPhone and none of it is uploaded anywhere.

Blocking an app at the operating system level is only possible through Apple's Family Controls framework, and reading accurate usage is only possible through Device Activity. Both require that permission. Without it Offliner cannot block anything or measure anything, which is to say it cannot work at all.

The day shows blank in your week row and the count starts again from the next clean day. Nothing is deleted and no notification tells you off about it. Days inside a detox cycle always count, because the apps cannot open at all during one.

Offliner runs on iPhone and iPad. Confirm current device support before publishing this answer.

Subscriptions are handled by Apple, not by us. Open Settings on your iPhone, tap your name at the top, tap Subscriptions, select Offliner and tap Cancel Subscription. Refund requests also go through Apple, at reportaproblem.apple.com.

Please write to support@offliner.app with your iPhone model, your iOS version and a screenshot if you have one. That is usually enough to find it straight away.

Good. Send it to suggestions@offliner.app or use the suggestion box. A large share of what shipped in the rebuild came in this way.