Guide
Lock apps until you close your Activity rings
Your Apple Watch already knows when your rings close. Dwar makes Instagram wait for it.
What you need
An iPhone and an Apple Watch. The rings come from the Fitness app’s own goals, so you set them there, as you always have. Dwar reads how many are closed today through Apple Health and never writes anything back.
Set it up
- Open Dwar, choose the habit you want less of, and pick its hours. For scrolling in the evening, that’s After work.
- Pick your social apps in iOS’s own picker. Dwar never learns their names.
- For the goal, choose Rings and how many: one, two or all three.
From then on, during those hours, the apps stay shut until the rings close. The lock screen says what’s left, “1 ring to go”, with two buttons: Check again, and Close.
Two things to know
Rings start again at midnight, so a gate with hours past midnight waits for tomorrow’s rings. And if your Watch hasn’t synced, Dwar has no reading, and no reading means locked. Open the Fitness app once and tap Check again.
Can I mix rings with steps?
Yes. Add both goals and choose whether any one opens the gate, or it takes them all.
What if I don’t wear the Watch one day?
The gate stays shut until its hours end, or you take a pause: five, fifteen or thirty minutes, whenever you need it.