A Fella routine locks the games you choose on Sunday through Thursday nights and holds until morning, so a late round the night before school isn't a decision anyone has to make in the moment.
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A school night has its own shape: homework finishes, there's downtime before bed, and that downtime is exactly where one more match turns into an hour past when sleep should have started. This isn't about the homework itself, and it isn't a generic every-night bedtime rule either. It's the specific stretch between "done for the day" and "asleep" on the nights that actually matter for the next morning.
Select the games that eat the evening and build a routine for the nights before school, typically Sunday through Thursday. Weekends can stay off the routine entirely, or run on a looser schedule if that fits better.
Set the start time for after homework and dinner, when the unstructured evening actually begins, and the end time for morning. The routine handles the rest.
A game doesn't wait for an obvious bedtime cue. Once homework is done, the evening is unstructured, and a match with friends has no natural point to stop at. By the time "bedtime" arrives, the session is already deep into overtime.
Starting the block earlier in the evening, not just at lights-out, closes that gap. The routine can begin right when homework ends, not just when someone decides it's finally time to sleep.
Leave Phone, Messages, and any alarm apps off the blocked list entirely, so those keep working exactly as normal. For the one time something genuinely needs attention, each session includes a single 5-minute emergency unlock, then the selected games lock again automatically.
If it's social media, not games, eating the school-night evening, see our block social media on school nights page. For the homework hours themselves rather than the evening after, see block apps during homework. For games in general, not just school nights, see how to block games on iPhone.
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Homework blocking covers the task itself, whenever it happens. A school-night routine covers the evening as a whole, homework, downtime, and the hour before bed, tied specifically to nights before a school day rather than to homework time.
Yes. A routine can be set to specific days of the week, so Sunday through Thursday nights can run the block while Friday and Saturday stay open.
Yes. Selection in Fella is per app, so a school-night routine can block the specific games in question while leaving messaging, alarms, and anything else needed untouched.
No. A school-night block uses the same routine and session mechanism as any other Fella block, just scoped to games and set for the evenings before school.
Each session includes one 5-minute emergency unlock. Use it if something genuinely needs attention, and the selected games lock again automatically once the five minutes end.
