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Any iPhone on iOS 17 or later. Doomies isn’t on iPad, Mac or Android yet.

Screen Time is how Doomies knows when you’re near your limit and how it locks apps. Apple keeps your minutes and app names sealed inside iOS, so Doomies only hears how close you are to your limit and whether you went over.

Tick the apps that eat your day, one by one. Try not to tick the whole Social category: it also holds Messages and WhatsApp, which you probably still want.

Open Settings in Doomies. You can choose whether a new limit starts now or tomorrow.

Each day you stay under your limit, a box turns up that night. Open it in the app to meet your new Doomie.

No. Your streak resets and your shelf catches brain rot, but nothing on it is lost. One day under your limit cures it by morning.

Duplicates happen, but after a run of repeats the next one is always new. Trade three spares in for any Doomie you’re missing, or send them to a friend.

Rare versions of each Doomie. They turn up more often the longer your streak runs.

Yes. Pause for 1 to 14 days in Settings. Paused days don’t count as over or under, and your streak waits for you.

Check that Lock at my limit is on in Doomies, and that Screen Time permission is still on in your iPhone’s Settings under Screen Time. If it is, restart your iPhone. Screen Time sometimes needs a nudge after an iOS update.

You get one “5 more minutes” a day from the block screen. Otherwise the apps unlock at midnight. If Take a breath is on, every unlock waits a few seconds first.

Start one whenever you want from the Focus tab. Your chosen apps stay locked until it ends.

Open the Friends tab and send your invite code. Groups hold up to six people.

Your name, streak, shelf and whether you’re under today. Never your minutes or your apps.

Open the Friends tab and tap Leave friends list. If you’d like everything tied to you deleted, email us too.

On your iPhone, open Settings › your name › Subscriptions, choose Doomies, and tap Cancel. Deleting the app doesn’t cancel it. You keep access until the end of the period you’ve paid for.

Apple handles all payments, so refunds are decided by Apple. Ask at reportaproblem.apple.com. If something went wrong, we’d still like to hear about it.

Sign in with the same Apple Account and tap Restore in Doomies. Your shelf comes back from iCloud too.

No. Apple’s Screen Time keeps your minutes and app names on your phone. Doomies only learns whether you crossed your limit.

Delete the app to remove everything on your iPhone. To remove the iCloud backup, open Settings › your name › iCloud › Manage Account Storage › Doomies. For anything from Friends, email us and we’ll delete it.