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Instagram and Facebook add a feed mode; TikTok is Off or Block site.\n\nTikTok is replaced with a friendly blocked page. You can opt any site into full block too.\n\nEnable Slowth in Safari, then choose what to hide or block for each website.\n\nSafari blocking works on websites without screen recording.\n\nFor 24 hours, enabled restrictions cannot be turned off. You can add restrictions, but cannot enable whole-site blocking. The timer survives restarts and force-quits.\n\nOn iPhone and iPad, Slowth can detect YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, and Instagram Stories and block the app when your selected content appears. This uses screen access that you start and stop.\n\nChoose YouTube or Instagram in Screen Time, then enable the content types you want to block. Start screen recording to use the apps while detection runs. When Slowth detects selected content, Screen Time blocks the entire app, not just that video or story.\n\nSlowth needs screen images to recognize Shorts, Reels, and Stories inside other apps. To receive these images, it uses the iOS screen recording feature. You start this access yourself through the system broadcast prompt.\n\nScreen images are analyzed on your device to recognize the content you chose to block. Audio is ignored.\n\nScreen frames are analyzed entirely on your device and never uploaded. By default nothing is saved; confirmed frames are saved only after explicitly enabling hidden debug capture.\n\nSlowth is open source. You can inspect the app and its on-device detection pipeline on GitHub.","facts":{"developer_id":1612038828,"developer_url":"https://malina.page/slowth/","first_released":"2026-04-28T07:00:00Z","support_url":"https://malina.page/slowth/support.html","privacy_url":"https://malina.page/slowth/privacy.html","website_url":"https://malina.page/slowth/","app_version":"2026.11.1","release_notes":"I tidied up the settings. A busy day by sloth standards.\n\n• Added individual settings for each app: short videos, Stories and soft blocking.\n• Updated the pause screen and explanations of temporary access using a leaf.\n• Limited selection to 50 apps and added a hint when the limit is exceeded.\n• Expanded How it works with examples and explanations of pauses, access and settings. 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On iPhone and iPad it can use screen access, started by you through the system broadcast prompt, to detect YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels and Stories and block the app through Screen Time. The app is open source.","good_for":["Cutting back on YouTube Shorts while still using YouTube","Limiting Instagram or Facebook Reels during the day","Keeping TikTok blocked for a set period"],"pricing":"Slowth is free to download, with in-app purchases on the App Store.","faq":[{"q":"Does Slowth upload my screen?","a":"The listing says screen frames are analyzed entirely on your device and never uploaded. By default nothing is saved; confirmed frames are saved only after explicitly enabling hidden debug capture."},{"q":"Can I turn off a restriction right away?","a":"For 24 hours, enabled restrictions cannot be turned off. You can add restrictions but cannot enable whole-site blocking. The timer survives restarts and force-quits."},{"q":"Is the detection code public?","a":"Yes. 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