BlackOut: Stay Focused/Beat Phone Addiction

BlackOut: Stay Focused and Block Distractions/Beat Cell Phone Addiction/Mobile Phone Addiction

Stay focused, block distractions and beat cellphone addiction/mobile cellphone addiction with BlackOut.

Have you ever felt like you want to take a break from your phone? Or that you endure from cellphone addiction? Or that you just additionally suffer from 'display dependancy'? Do you lack the power to remain targeted lately? Or possibly your telephone is affecting your sleeping patterns, or your job? Maybe quitting chilly turkey can be really onerous too.

While developing/maintaining Detox(another app that helps customers keep focused) we got a lot of reviews and emails from customers saying they wished an app where they could specify a time-frame that they would not be in a position to use their smartphone for. That’s where the concept for BlackOut initially came from. The idea is really easy, you just open the app and choose a starting time, finishing time and days of the week then activate the time slot. During the interval and days you choose your cellphone will dissuade you from utilizing it until the time period ends. This will maintain repeating everyday(or for the days you selected) till you de-activate it, just like how an alarm works.

How To Use

• Open the app, be sure to settle for the required overlay permission

• Tap the floating plus icon

• Select a begin time

• Select a end time

• Select the day/s of the week you need the app to function for(can be everyday)

• Activate by turning the switch on in the list.

• Remember to de-activate if you don't need the restrictions to keep repeating.

Features

• You can register up to 3 totally different time frames of up to 4 hours(each) for free.

• A simple means that will help you beat telephone addiction or get better sleep.

• Stay centered and get more accomplished.

• Stops you from using your cellphone throughout a specified time frame.

• You can choose the days that the app will function too, you could set it to solely weekdays if that fits your schedule.

• Registering a number of time slots is possible(unlimited for premium users)

• You can make emergency calls

• Premium users can receive calls simply too

• Time slots that overlap two days(premium

• White list functionality(premium)

Recommended For

- People making an attempt to beat cellular phone addiction/screen addiction

- Students or staff that wish to block out distractions

- People who're snubbing their beloved ones

- People that want to keep targeted and need an extra push

- People who want to scale back their screen time

- People who feel that have turn out to be anti-social because of their smart phone habits

- People who're scared they may have nomophobia

Troubleshooting

If you are new and having points with BlackOut there are a couple of things to hold in mind:

• You have to set the time in 24 hour format(Ex. 11pm should be set as 23:00).

• BlackOut isn't at all times completely on time, it could be a few minutes late. This is to conserve battery. With this in mind there's not likely any point setting a time slot for much less than a small interval like 3 minutes as a result of there's a likelihood it won't activate for such a short time period.

• If you're using a telephone that has some kind of battery saver(STAMINA mode etc.) you'll need to show it off for BlackOut to be correctly practical.

• If you are using a telephone that has Doze you might want to turn Doze off for BlackOut. You can do that out of your settings app.

• If your cellphone has some sort of white listing for protected apps(Huawei etc), you'll most likely have to add BlackOut to this listing.

• If you're still having points be at liberty to email us at [email protected] for assist with troubleshooting.

If you want to try our beta you'll have the ability to view it here:

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.blackout