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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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Yes. Selection in Fella is per app, so a routine can block Instagram specifically while leaving email, calendar, and work tools completely untouched.
No. Fella blocks the entire Instagram app, not one feed inside it. If keeping messaging or posts available while removing Reels specifically matters more, see our Instagram Reels guide for that narrower option.
Yes, with a routine. Set it to the weekdays and hours you work, and it starts the block on its own each of those days without needing to be turned on.
No. This uses the same routine and session mechanism as any other Fella block. The only difference is which app you select and which hours you set.
Each session includes one 5-minute emergency unlock. Use it if something real comes up, and Instagram locks again automatically once the five minutes end.
