Instagram closes for
exam week. Nothing else does.
Select Instagram, set a routine for exam week, and only Instagram locks. Notes, messaging, and study apps keep working normally.
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Instagram closes for
Exam week is the one stretch where a single scroll session has a real, dated cost, and Instagram is usually the specific app doing the damage. If it's Instagram, not the whole phone, that pulls you away during revision, blocking everything is more than the problem calls for. Fella lets you select just Instagram and set the days, nothing else changes.
Select Instagram, set exam week, done
Selection in Fella is per app. Choose Instagram on its own and leave messaging, notes, and study apps untouched.
Build a routine for the days school runs exams, and it starts the block itself every one of those days, so there is nothing to remember at 8am with a paper at 10.
Still reachable, still bounded
Exam week is exactly when a blocker with no way through would be a problem. A DM might carry a genuine last-minute change to room or time. Each session includes one 5-minute emergency unlock, then Instagram locks again automatically for the rest of the day.
If it's more than just Instagram
If other social apps, or games, are also part of exam-week distraction, see our broader block social media during exams page, or block apps during exams for every category together. For blocking Instagram outside exam season too, see how to block Instagram on iPhone.
Fella, up close.
- Built with Apple’s Screen Time controls.
- One 5-minute emergency unlock per session.
- Apps stay blocked by default.
Everything you need to stay focused, right from Home.
Blocking Instagram during exams: FAQ
Yes. Selection in Fella is per app, so a routine can block Instagram for the days of exam week while leaving messaging, notes, and any study apps untouched.
No. This uses the same session and routine mechanism as any other Fella block, just scoped to Instagram and applied for the days of exam week.
Yes, with a routine. Set it to the days and hours you're revising or sitting exams, and it starts the block itself each of those days without needing to be turned on.
Each session includes one 5-minute emergency unlock. Use it if something genuinely needs checking, and Instagram locks again automatically once the five minutes end.
If Instagram specifically is what pulls you away and other apps aren't the problem, blocking just that one keeps the setup simple and leaves everything else exactly as useful as it was.
