A Fella routine locks the streaming apps you choose at the same time every night and holds until morning, so the decision to stop happens once, when you set it up, instead of every night in bed.
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"Just one more episode" is designed to be an easy yes: the next one is already queued before you've decided whether to keep watching. There's rarely a natural stopping point in a service built to autoplay, which is exactly the kind of thing a routine handles better than willpower at midnight.
Select the streaming apps that keep you up and set the start time to whenever you actually want to stop, and the end time to whenever you get up. The routine begins the session on its own, so there is nothing to close once you're already in bed.
Everything else on your phone stays untouched, including messaging, your alarm, and anything else you might reach for at night.
Be clear about the scope. Fella blocks the streaming apps on your iPhone. It does not reach a TV or a laptop, so if late-night watching happens on a bigger screen, the phone-level block alone won't cover that.
Leave Phone, Messages, and your alarm off the blocked list entirely, so those keep working exactly as normal. For the one time something genuinely needs checking, each session includes a single 5-minute emergency unlock, then the selected apps lock again automatically.
If other apps are part of the same bedtime pattern, not just streaming, see our broader block apps while sleeping page, or stop scrolling at night for the behavior side of why this happens. For blocking one specific service, see our Netflix page for the study-time version of the same idea.
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Yes. A routine starts a blocking session on the days and times you choose, so a nightly block begins on its own once set up, rather than needing to be turned on each evening.
No. A nightly streaming block uses the same routine and session mechanism as any other Fella block, just scoped to the apps you choose and applied to bedtime hours.
No. Fella blocks selected iPhone apps only. If streaming on a TV or computer is also part of the problem, that needs a separate device-level solution.
No, as long as you do not add those apps to the block. Fella blocks only the apps you select, so leaving Clock, Phone, and Messages unselected keeps alarms and calls working normally.
Each session includes one 5-minute emergency unlock. Use it if something genuinely needs attention, and the selected apps lock again automatically once the five minutes end.
