Select the apps that pull you out of a sit, start a session or set a routine for when you meditate, and only those apps lock. Your timer or guided-meditation app can stay open.
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A single buzz during a sit doesn't just interrupt the moment, it tends to end it, because checking "just quickly" and then settling back in rarely works the way it sounds. The usual advice is to put the phone in another room, but a lot of meditation practice runs through the phone itself, a timer, a guided track, an app. Blocking the other apps solves the actual problem without asking you to leave the phone behind.
Selection in Fella is per app. If you use a meditation app to guide the sit, leave it unselected and block messaging, social apps, and anything else that would otherwise take the interruption. The phone stays useful for the practice itself; everything else goes quiet.
Start a manual session right before you sit, or build a routine for the time you usually practice so the block starts itself without a decision each day.
The disruption isn't the two seconds a buzz takes. It's the mental thread that follows: wondering who it was, whether it's worth a reply, whether to open it now or after. That thread is exactly what a sit is trying to quiet, and it starts the moment the phone lights up, whether or not you actually pick it up.
Each session includes one 5-minute emergency unlock, for the rare case something genuinely needs attention mid-sit. When the five minutes end, the selected apps lock again automatically for the rest of the session.
If you're protecting a longer stretch of focused time, not just a meditation session, see our deep work app blocker page. For a standing daily practice, how Fella routines work covers setting up a recurring time slot in full.
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Only if you select it. Selection in Fella is per app, so if you use Calm, Headspace, or a similar app to guide the sit, leave that one unselected and block everything else instead.
15 minutes is Apple's minimum for a Screen Time session, and Fella does not try to get around it. Most sits are at or above that, so a single session comfortably covers one.
Yes, with a routine. Set it to the time you usually sit, and it starts the block itself each of those days without needing to be turned on.
Physical distance helps, but many people meditate using a phone timer or a guided app, so the phone often needs to stay in reach. Blocking the other apps removes the temptation to check something else without requiring the phone to leave the room.
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.
