Select YouTube, start a session or set a routine for when you study, and only YouTube locks. Notes, messaging, and study apps keep working exactly as normal.
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"One tutorial video" on YouTube rarely stays one video, and a study session is exactly where that costs the most. If YouTube specifically is the app that turns a planned hour of studying into an evening of recommended videos, and the rest of your phone is fine, blocking everything is more than the problem calls for. Fella lets you select just YouTube and leave the rest of your phone alone.
Selection in Fella is per app. Choose YouTube 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.
Be clear about what this actually does. Fella blocks the entire YouTube app during a session. It does not distinguish a 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 YouTube's own Shorts-specific limit as the narrower first step before an app-wide block.
Each session includes one 5-minute emergency unlock, for the rare case a specific video genuinely needs checking mid-session. When the five minutes end, YouTube locks again automatically for the rest of the session.
If social media, messaging, or general phone use is also part of the problem, not just YouTube, see our broader block apps while studying guide. For blocking YouTube beyond study time as well, see how to block YouTube on iPhone.
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Yes. Selection in Fella is per app, so a study session can block YouTube specifically while leaving messaging, notes, and any study apps 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 than blocking YouTube outright, see our YouTube Shorts guide for that narrower option.
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.
No. This uses the same session and routine mechanism as any other Fella block, just scoped to YouTube and applied during study time.
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.
