Select the Steam app, start a session or set a routine for when you study, and only Steam locks. Notes, messaging, and study apps keep working normally.
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This is about the Steam iPhone app specifically, not your PC or console. Be clear on that before setting anything up. The Steam app on iPhone is mostly chat, store browsing, and community pages, not actual gaming. If checking a friend's activity or browsing the store between problems is what breaks a study session, that's what this page addresses.
Fella blocks the Steam app on your iPhone only. It has no effect on Steam or any games installed on a Mac, PC, or console. If most of your actual gaming happens on a computer, blocking the iPhone app won't meaningfully change that.
What it does stop is the phone-based distraction: chat notifications, store browsing, and checking what friends are playing, the parts that pull attention during a study session even away from a computer.
Selection in Fella is per app. Choose Steam on its own and leave messaging, notes, and any study apps you rely on completely untouched.
Start a manual session for one sitting, or build a routine for the days and hours you study regularly so the block starts itself without a decision each time.
Each session includes one 5-minute emergency unlock, for the rare case something genuinely needs checking mid-session. When the five minutes end, Steam locks again automatically for the rest of the session.
If other games or general phone use are also part of the problem, not just Steam, see our broader block games during study time guide. For the full picture on what blocking Steam does and doesn't stop, see how to block Steam on iPhone.
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No. Fella blocks the Steam iPhone app only. It has no effect on Steam or any games installed on a Mac, PC, or console, so if most of your gaming time happens there, this won't meaningfully change that.
Mostly chat, store browsing, community pages, and checking friends' activity, the parts that pull attention during a study session even if you're not actually gaming on your phone.
Yes. Selection in Fella is per app, so a study session can block Steam specifically while leaving messaging, notes, and any study apps untouched.
Both. Start a manual session before you sit down to study, or build a routine for the days and hours you study regularly, and it starts the block on its own.
Each session includes one 5-minute emergency unlock. Use it if something genuinely needs checking, and Steam locks again automatically once the five minutes end.
