Can I block TikTok, Instagram and YouTube specifically?
Short answer: Yes — pick any apps on your iPhone, including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X and games, and Paused blocks exactly those. Everything else keeps working normally.
Yes. Paused lets you pick any apps on your iPhone — including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X, Reddit and games — and blocks exactly those. Everything else (Maps, Messages, music, your bank) keeps working normally.
How to choose them
- Open Paused and tap to add apps to a schedule or a Focus session.
- Select the specific time-sinks you want gone.
- Set when — a bedtime/work schedule, or a Focus timer for right now.
Because Paused uses Apple's Screen Time framework, it can see which apps to block without seeing anything inside them — more on privacy. Want just the endless-feed parts gone? Blocking the whole app is the reliable way; see how to stop doomscrolling.
