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Any iPhone on iOS 17 or later. Doomies isn’t on iPad, Mac or Android yet.

Screen Time is how Doomies knows when you’re near your limit and how it locks apps. Apple keeps your minutes and app names sealed inside iOS, so Doomies only hears how close you are to your limit and whether you went over.

Tick the apps that eat your day, one by one. Try not to tick the whole Social category: it also holds Messages and WhatsApp, which you probably still want.

Open Settings in Doomies. You can choose whether a new limit starts now or tomorrow.

Each day you stay under your limit, a box turns up that night. Open it in the app to meet your new Doomie.

No. Your shelf catches brain rot until midnight and you miss that night’s box, but nothing on it is lost. Your streak cracks rather than ends: a day under in the next two days fixes it, once a week.

Duplicates happen, but after a run of repeats the next one is always new. Trade three spares in for any Doomie you’re missing, or send them to a friend.

Rare versions of each Doomie. They turn up more often the longer your streak runs.

Yes. Pause for 1 to 14 days in Settings. Paused days don’t count as over or under, and your streak waits for you.

Check that Lock at my limit is on in Doomies, and that Screen Time permission is still on in your iPhone’s Settings under Screen Time. If it is, restart your iPhone. Screen Time sometimes needs a nudge after an iOS update.

You get one “5 more minutes” a day from the block screen. Otherwise the apps unlock at midnight.

Start one whenever you want from the Focus tab. Your chosen apps stay locked until it ends.

Open the Friends tab and share your friend code, or scan theirs. You can have up to 10 friends.

Your name, your shelf, your collection and your spares, so you can swap and gift. Never your minutes or your apps.

Only if you choose to share your day. It’s off until you say yes, and it’s for ages 16 and over: Doomies checks your age first, and if you’re under 16 it stays off while the rest of Friends works as normal. Turn it on and friends who also share see whether you’re under, nearly at or over your limit today, whether your shelf has brain rot, your streak and whether a box is waiting, and you see theirs. Turn it off any time in Settings › Friends › Share my day with friends, and it’s removed from iCloud straight away.

Open their card and tap Remove. You stop seeing each other, and swaps between you stop.

Tap Report on their card, or long-press them in Friends. We aim to review every report within 24 hours. They’re removed from your list straight away and can’t add you again.

On your iPhone, open Settings › your name › Subscriptions, choose Doomies, and tap Cancel. Deleting the app doesn’t cancel it. You keep access until the end of the period you’ve paid for.

Apple handles all payments, so refunds are decided by Apple. Ask at reportaproblem.apple.com. If something went wrong, we’d still like to hear about it.

Sign in with the same Apple Account and tap Restore in Doomies. Your shelf comes back from iCloud too.

No. Apple’s Screen Time keeps your minutes and app names on your phone. Doomies only learns whether you crossed your limit.

In Doomies, open Settings › Delete my data and start again. That deletes your shelf, settings and iCloud backup, and removes your profile, friend code and the gifts and swaps you sent from iCloud. For anything else, email support@getdoomies.com and we’ll delete it.