A Fella routine blocks Telegram 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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Large group chats and channels generate a steady stream of notifications that has nothing to do with anything urgent, and each one reads as worth a glance. If Slack, email, and your other tools are fine and it's specifically Telegram's group chats pulling you away, blocking your whole phone is more than the problem calls for. Fella lets you select just Telegram and set the hours, nothing else changes.
If your job genuinely runs through Telegram, blocking it will get in the way of real work, not just the distraction. This page is aimed at the more common case: personal groups, channels, and chats that have nothing to do with the task in front of you.
Selection in Fella is per app. Choose Telegram on its own and leave everything else, including messaging apps and other 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.
A work-hours block should never cut off something genuinely urgent. Each session includes one 5-minute emergency unlock, enough to answer a message that actually can't wait, and Telegram locks again automatically once the five minutes end.
If other apps are part of the same problem, not just Telegram, see our broader block social media during work hours page, or block apps during work for every category of distraction together. For blocking Telegram outside work hours too, see how to block Telegram on iPhone.
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For some teams, yes. If a work group genuinely runs through Telegram, blocking it will interrupt real communication, not just distraction. This page is for the more common case: personal group chats and channels pulling you away between tasks.
Yes. Selection in Fella is per app, so a routine can block Telegram specifically while leaving email, calendar, and other 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.
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 Telegram locks again automatically once the five minutes end.
