A Fella routine blocks YouTube starting the moment you wake up and holds until mid-morning, so the first twenty minutes of the day happen somewhere other than a recommended-videos queue.
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For a lot of people, the first phone check of the day has a name, and it's YouTube specifically, since its autoplay and recommendations remove the moment where you'd normally decide to stop. Fella does not have a feature named for mornings. It has routines: a schedule you set once that starts a real blocking session automatically, applied here to the hours right after you wake up, scoped to just YouTube.
Build a routine that starts before you wake and ends mid-morning. Select YouTube on its own, and the routine locks it before there's a chance to open it out of habit.
Leave your alarm and anything else you need first thing unselected. Selection in Fella is per app, so the block only covers what you choose.
Be clear about what this actually does. Fella blocks the entire YouTube app during the session. It does not separate a long video from a recommended one 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.
A morning block should never mean cut off. Leave Phone and Messages off the blocked list so you can still be reached the normal way. For the one time YouTube genuinely can't wait, each session includes a single 5-minute emergency unlock, then the block resumes automatically for the rest of the morning.
For the habit side of why the first check happens at all, see our stop checking your phone in the morning guide, or block social media in the morning if it isn't just YouTube. For blocking YouTube all day, not just the morning, see how to block YouTube on iPhone.
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Yes. A routine starts a blocking session on the days and times you choose, so a morning YouTube block begins on its own before you pick up your phone, rather than needing to be turned on.
No. A morning block uses the same routine and session mechanism as any other Fella block, just set to start when you wake up and end mid-morning, scoped to YouTube.
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.
Each session includes one 5-minute emergency unlock. Use it if something genuinely needs checking, and YouTube locks again automatically once the five minutes end.
Intending not to check rarely survives the first notification or recommendation of the day. A routine removes the decision entirely by making the app unavailable before you've picked the phone up.
