Instagram closed for the day.
Everything else, business as usual.

A Fella routine blocks Instagram for the hours you work, automatically, every workday. Email, calendar, and the rest of your phone stay exactly as they are.

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Not every work distraction is the same problem, and for a lot of people it's specifically one app. If Slack, email, and your calendar are fine and it's Instagram pulling you away between tasks, blocking your whole phone is more than the problem calls for. Fella lets you select just Instagram and set the hours, nothing else changes.

Select the one app, not the whole phone

Selection in Fella is per app. Choose Instagram on its own and leave everything else, including messaging apps you rely on for work, completely untouched.

Set a routine for your working hours and it runs on its own. Weekdays nine to five, or whatever your actual schedule is, starts and ends the block automatically without a manual toggle each morning.

Fella blocks the whole app, not one feed inside it

Be clear about what this actually does. Fella blocks the entire Instagram app during a session. It does not separate DMs from posts or from the Reels feed, because those all live inside the same app.

If keeping direct messages available while removing Reels specifically matters more, see our block Instagram Reels guide, which covers that narrower option before an app-wide block.

Still reachable for anything real

A work-hours block should never cut off something genuinely urgent. Each session includes one 5-minute emergency unlock, enough to check a message that actually can't wait, and Instagram locks again automatically once the five minutes end.

If it's more than just Instagram

If other social apps are part of the same problem, not just Instagram, see our broader block social media during work hours page, or block apps during work for every category of distraction together. For blocking Instagram outside work hours 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.

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