You can schedule sessions which seems great until you find out that if you’re on low power mode it doesn’t work. I had to click multiple times to block all of the options. As a minor note, configuring the block list could be slightly easier. Otherwise, on mobile, it will show the default alphabetical keyboard, which is harder to fill out. The number and CVV fields should have input type number. The credit card payment form is not optimized for mobile. It also looks like this doesn’t quite work for some social media apps like Facebook or Instagram. This is why you can open apps but the API requests fail and the apps don’t work. It looks like Freedom uses VPN technology to block network requests. This would help me understand what I can or can’t rely on Freedom to do. I had to dig for that info by searching the help desk and reading App Store reviews. It would be nice to have more information on how exactly Freedom works upfront.
For instance, I do a lot of my writing in Google docs, and there’s no way to unblock that.
It would be nice to have a whitelist of websites.
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Cold Turkey does have a more full featured scheduler and list capabilities. Neither of these are able to block Internet on my phone. I also use screen time for iOS and the Cold Turkey app. I’m happy to find an app that blocks Internet use on my phone. And if the complaints are due to people missing a step during installation then you should improve your user interface. So what am I missing? If you want to claim you have good customer service then actually check out these complaints further. The developers say “make sure you have the freedom app open in the background.” Check! “Make sure you’ve installed the app blocker.” Check, vpn running! And yet I have an app blocking session running and I can still access all my apps. There are scores of reviews on here saying the app blocking function doesn’t work on iPhones. Suggestion: instead of saying it “blocks apps”, give a more accurate description of what your product actually does and which types of apps are likely to be affected. I guess it might work on an app that *must* connect to the internet to work, if that’s what you mean by refresh, but it certainly doesn’t stop me from using any apps that don’t need to be “refreshed” to work, like self-contained games or apps with previously downloaded content that I could still peruse. In response to the developer’s response: No, the apps I tested were still fully functional. But if you’re looking for something like that this isn’t it I have no idea if this is possible, but I was expecting something that once I set the timer, it made me physically incapable of starting apps I had put on a blocklist, and it’s was impossible to undo the timer. I only have a couple phone games so I didn’t trouble shoot them but it looks like those distractions can’t be blocked since they don’t connect to the internet. For apps like Facebook those launch with near infinite data so you can still go through a lot of the website when it’s blocked. I thought this didn’t have that problem but apparently if you don’t leave the app open in the background it won’t block stuff. I tried other things but the work arounds were so easy that I just always went with the work around. I’m a Comp Sci student so I need access to tech and internet to do my work but Facebook and Reddit get in the way so I only need them blocked when I’m doing work at random hours.
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I was doing the free trial of premium to try and figure out how to stop my smartphone addiction while still having access to my phone.
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