App Blocker Routines

We’re introducing our biggest update to App Blocker yet. It’s one of the most meaningful updates we’ve made because it brings Tempo closer to its mission: protecting your attention.

Tempo can now help you protect your attention beyond focus sessions, including during your free time. With Routines, you can choose apps, categories, or websites and set daily usage limits or schedule when they’re blocked.

We also wanted this protection to feel connected to the time you spend focusing. That’s why we’ve introduced ways to earn access through focus sessions or math exercises.

If you’ve reached your social app limit, for example, you can spend time reading, learning, or doing something you care about to earn a little extra time. It’s a way to make room for the things that matter while still enjoying a small reward.

We’ve also created a new Monitor page for Screen Time, where you can see which apps take up most of your time and how your usage changes over time. It’s a clearer way to understand where your attention goes and decide what you’d like to change.

We’ve put a lot of care into this update, testing and refining how it works. We’d love to hear how Routines fit into your day and what would make them better for you.

Added

• Swedish and Portuguese (Portugal) translations.
• A new Monitor page to help you understand your distractions and see your Screen Time over time.
• Routines for blocking apps, websites, and app categories with daily usage limits or scheduled time intervals.
• Unlock methods that let you extend access or disable a routine through focus sessions or math exercises. Requirements can increase with repeated use.
• A progress indicator to show how close you are to completing a routine’s unlock goal.

Improved

• Smoother interaction with the split-view selector.
• Better accessibility for the update banner.
• Label search in the History page’s label selector.
• A redesigned paywall.
• Session App Blocker controls directly on the clock, so you can see which apps are linked to the current label and whether blocking is active.
• The Archived section now appears once a completed task moves into the archive on the following day.
• A refined screen for blocked apps.

Fixed

• Performance issues.
• Bugs affecting Live Activities in certain situations.