A Fella routine locks the apps you choose for the hours school runs, automatically, on the days you set. No app to open before first period, no toggle to remember at the bell.
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A phone that stays quiet during school hours works best when nobody has to decide that in the moment. Fella does not have a feature named for school. It has routines: a schedule you set once that starts and ends a real blocking session on its own, on the days and hours you choose. Applying that to a school day is the same setup as any other recurring block.
Build a routine for the days school runs and the hours it covers. Pick the apps that pull attention away—social feeds, short video, games—and set a start time before the first bell and an end time after the last one. The routine begins the block on its own every one of those days.
Weekdays only, automatically. A routine can be set to specific days of the week, so a school-hours block runs Monday through Friday and leaves weekends alone without a separate step. See building a weekly blocking schedule for setting that up.
Fella is built for a personal iPhone you control, not a school-managed device. If your school issues a managed iPad or laptop, that device may already restrict what can be installed through its own mobile device management, and Fella is not designed to override school IT policy.
Where this fits is your own phone during school hours. Plenty of the same distractions that show up in class also show up on the phone in your bag or pocket, and a routine handles that part regardless of what the school's own systems do.
A school-hours block should never mean unreachable. Leave Phone and Messages off the blocked list entirely, so a parent, guardian, or school office can still reach you the normal way.
For the one time something in a blocked app genuinely can't wait, each session includes a single 5-minute emergency unlock, then the selected apps lock again automatically for the rest of the school day.
Phone-free school policy has moved from rare to standard fast. Our app blocker for students page covers the research behind it, including the 2026 phone-free school laws now taking effect across several U.S. states, and the GPA and attention-cost data behind why schools are moving this direction in the first place.
A personal routine backs up whatever the school itself requires, covering the hours before, between, and after classes that a school's own policy may not reach.
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No. Fella does not have a feature labeled for school. What it has is routines: a schedule that starts a blocking session automatically on the days and hours you set, which works just as well for a school day as for anything else.
Yes. Set a routine to the weekdays and hours school runs, and it starts the block itself each of those days, so there is nothing to turn on before first period.
Fella is built for a personal iPhone you control. A school-managed device under mobile device management may already restrict which apps can be installed, and Fella does not attempt to override school IT policy or device supervision.
Each session includes one 5-minute emergency unlock. Use it if something genuinely needs attention, and the selected apps lock again automatically once the five minutes end.
No. Block the apps that pull attention away without adding value, usually social feeds, short video, and games. Leave Phone, Messages, and anything a parent or teacher needs to reach you through unselected.
