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Lock App Settings for Android

Feature Request🤖 Android

Just like on iOS, it would be helpful to be able to lock an app’s settings with a timer or intervention to prevent the settings from being deactivated without warning.

[Explanation for the Edit in the Comments below]

Original Post: Some suggestions for the Android app
First, I want to congratulate you on your app—it’s wonderful. I’d like to offer some suggestions for the Android app, since the iOS version has many more features. It would be helpful to be able to lock an app’s settings with a timer to prevent the settings from being deactivated without warning. In other words, if I want to change something in the settings to access Instagram, I should have to wait—for example, 3 minutes—before I can make any changes. It would also be helpful to be able to temporarily block the app, for example: Instagram can’t be used from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m., no matter how much you want to. And it would also be nice to be able to choose the exact time in seconds or minutes to open an app. I hope my suggestions are useful to you. Best regards to the team, and thank you very much for how well the app works.
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🤖 Android
Posted by andreugr ·
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  • Lucas

    Team•

    Apr 14

    Hi @andreugr

    thanks for your feature requests(!)

    I took the freedom of editing your request, since some of your requests already exist and it’s better to give each request an own post.

    I changed this post to Lock App Settings for Android – and created a new one for the Daily Time Budget for Android and mentioned you there:

    https://feedback.one-sec.app/p/daily-time-budget-for-android

    Also please search, if already existing posts are similar or close to what you wish for.

    Regarding scheduling your blocks, this feature is already asked for – Block Schedule for Android.

    Regarding the choosing the exact time to open an app, this could fit to this feature request:
    More granular Re-Intervention Timer.

    Feel free to upvote those posts, and comment to add your ideas! This also makes it more likely they will be implemented soon – Thanks so much.

  • andreugr

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    Apr 5

    I also think it’s necessary to be able to limit app usage to, say, a maximum of 30 minutes a day, and after that time, the app shouldn’t be available until the next day.