A Fella routine blocks YouTube 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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"One quick video" during work rarely stays one video, and YouTube's own recommendations are built to make sure of it. If Slack, email, and your calendar are fine and it's specifically YouTube pulling you away between tasks, blocking your whole phone is more than the problem calls for. Fella lets you select just YouTube and set the hours, nothing else changes.
Selection in Fella is per app. Choose YouTube 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 YouTube app during a session. It does not distinguish a work-relevant tutorial from a recommended video or from the Shorts feed, because those all live inside the same app.
If keeping long-form YouTube available while removing just Shorts matters more, see our block YouTube Shorts guide, which covers that narrower option before an app-wide block.
A work-hours block should never cut off something genuinely necessary. Each session includes one 5-minute emergency unlock, enough to check a specific work-related video that actually can't wait, and YouTube locks again automatically once the five minutes end.
If other apps are part of the same problem, not just YouTube, see our broader block social media during work hours page, or block apps during work for every category of distraction together. For blocking YouTube outside work hours too, see how to block YouTube on iPhone.
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Yes. Selection in Fella is per app, so a routine can block YouTube specifically while leaving email, calendar, and work tools completely untouched.
No. Fella blocks the entire YouTube app, not one tab inside it. If keeping long-form video available while removing Shorts specifically matters more, see our YouTube Shorts 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 YouTube locks again automatically once the five minutes end.
