Sleep Focus: Bedtime App Lock

Put the phone to bed, and get your sleep back. Sleep Focus locks distracting apps from the bedtime you pick until the wake time you pick — and unlocks them by itself, free, every morning.

"Just five more minutes" keeps turning into 2 a.m.? Sleep Focus swaps willpower for a simple system. You set a sleep window once, and your apps rest while you do.

WHAT IT DOES

Locks from bedtime to wake time

• Pick a bedtime and a wake time. That's the whole setup.
• Distracting apps stop opening for the window you chose.
• Sleep Focus blocks broadly rather than app by app, so there's no per-app picker to fuss with at bedtime.
• Built on Apple's Screen Time (Family Controls), so the lock holds.

A free unlock every morning

• At your wake time the lock ends automatically.
• No payment, no conditions, no button to press. Every single day.
• A single lock runs between 1 and 12 hours and never longer, so morning always arrives.

Calls and texts are never locked

• Calls, texts and emergency dialing keep working the whole time.
• You stay reachable for the people and the moments that matter.

The schedule is fixed once the lock starts

• After bedtime you can't move the times until morning.
• That's the whole point: 1 a.m. you doesn't get to overrule 10 p.m. you.

Early unlock, if you truly need it (optional)

• Something urgent came up? A small one-time purchase ends tonight's lock right away.
• It's a consumable in-app purchase, not a subscription, and the price is shown before you buy.
• It works as a speed bump — "is this worth paying for?" is a surprisingly good question at 1 a.m.

PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU INSTALL

Sleep Focus is a self-control tool that you set up yourself. It never holds your phone hostage.

• The lock only ever runs during the window you set yourself.
• At your wake time it unlocks automatically, at no cost.
• Turning off the Screen Time permission in iOS Settings, or deleting the app, ends the lock at any time.
• The paid early unlock is optional and is never required to get out.

WHO IT'S FOR

• You keep doomscrolling short videos and social feeds long past bedtime
• Your sleep keeps getting shorter because your phone is in your hand
• Willpower on its own hasn't worked and you want something with teeth
• You're building a steadier sleep routine, or a real digital detox
• You want less screen time at night without policing yourself all evening

GOOD TO KNOW

• Requires iOS 16 or later.
• App locking uses Apple's Screen Time (Family Controls) permission, which you grant yourself during setup.
• Notifications are used to bring you back to Sleep Focus from a locked app.
• Sleep Focus does not measure or track your sleep. It just gets the phone out of your hands so you can.
• No account and no sign-up.

QUESTIONS OR FEEDBACK

Something not working, or an idea for what's next? Write to jinhom6225@insightmyung.com, or leave a review. Your notes genuinely shape what gets built.

Tonight, put the phone to bed first.