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Decide helps you protect time for what matters to you — work, family, sleep — by setting aside the specific apps that can wait, on your own iPhone, for as long as you choose.

Open an area from Home, choose the apps that can wait under What can wait, then protect it now or add times under When it matters.

In an area, under What can wait, tap Choose apps and select the specific apps in Apple’s Screen Time list. Decide protects individual apps, not whole categories.

Screen Time permission is what lets Decide set aside the apps you choose, on this iPhone. Without it Decide can’t shield apps; you can still set everything up and allow it later.

Open an area, choose how long under Protect now — 30 minutes, 1 hour, until a time you pick, or no end time — and tap Begin.

On Home, tap End protection, then End this protection. Ending a scheduled time ends that period only; the next one starts as usual.

Open Settings (the gear on Home) and tap Stop all protection. It is designed to remove every restriction Decide has applied and keeps your areas, apps and times. Check Home afterwards; if an app is still blocked, follow the troubleshooting steps.

In an area, under When it matters, tap Add time. Choose Once (a date) or Repeats (days of the week), set when it starts and ends, and tap Save. Decide protects that time even when the app is closed.

Only one area is protected at a time. Decide won’t save scheduled times that overlap, so this only happens when you protect an area by hand and another area’s scheduled time begins: that area waits.

While protection is on, tap Take a Mini Break, choose one of the protected apps and pick 5, 10 or 15 minutes. Everything else stays protected, and the app is protected again by itself when the time is up.

A Mini Break needs an area that is protecting now, protection Decide has confirmed, Decide unlocked, no other Mini Break in progress, and apps chosen one by one.

All three plans unlock the same Decide. Setting up is free; starting protection needs a plan. Monthly and Yearly renew automatically until you cancel; Lifetime is one payment, with no subscription.

Decide checks your purchases with Apple each time it opens, so after reinstalling it usually unlocks by itself. If it doesn’t, tap Restore Purchases in Settings, signed in with the Apple Account you used to buy.

Decide shows Unlock Decide when Apple answers that this Apple Account has no active plan: a subscription ended, the purchase was made with another Apple Account, or Apple hasn’t yet caught up with a purchase.

Without Screen Time permission, Decide stops applying protection and no longer shows Protection is on. Your areas, apps and times are kept, and allowing the permission again brings them back into use.

Check what Home says is protected, and end it, or use Stop all protection in Settings. If a button doesn’t respond, close Decide and open it again: your areas, apps and times are kept.

Decide has no account and collects nothing. Your areas, selections and times are stored on your iPhone, and Decide can see how many apps you chose, never which ones.

Decide is made for iPhone and needs Screen Time on that iPhone. If this Help Center doesn’t answer your question, write to us by email: the address is below.