A Fella routine blocks Messenger for the hours you work, automatically, every workday. Email, calendar, and everything else on your phone stays exactly as it is.
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For a lot of people, Messenger during work isn't one important conversation, it's several open threads that could wait until the day is done. Be honest with yourself before setting this up: Messenger is often how people actually reach you, not just a feed. If that's the case here, this is still worth doing carefully rather than on reflex.
This fits people whose Messenger use during work is mostly personal-chat drift, not urgency. Marketplace chats route through Messenger too, so if you're actively selling or buying something, blocking Messenger blocks that access as well.
Selection in Fella is per app. Choose Messenger on its own and leave everything else, including other messaging apps and work tools you rely on, 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.
Keep Phone or Messages available and let close contacts know to use that route for anything urgent during work hours.
Each session includes one 5-minute emergency unlock, enough to check and reply to something that actually can't wait. When the five minutes end, Messenger locks again automatically for the rest of the workday.
If other apps are part of the same problem, not just Messenger, see our broader block social media during work hours page, or block apps during work for every category of distraction together. For blocking Messenger outside work hours too, see how to block Messenger on iPhone.
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Yes, for the duration of the block, since Messenger is often a primary chat app and not just a feed. Keep Phone or Messages available and tell close contacts to use that route for anything urgent during work hours.
Yes. Selection in Fella is per app, so a routine can block Messenger specifically while leaving email, calendar, and work tools completely untouched.
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.
Yes. Marketplace messages route through Messenger, so blocking Messenger blocks that access too until the session ends or you use the emergency unlock.
Each session includes one 5-minute emergency unlock. Use it to check and reply, and Messenger locks again automatically once the five minutes end.
