A reminder app you can't swipe away

Set it up

1. Give RemindLock Screen Time permission (Apple's permission for individuals, not parental controls).
2. Pick the apps to lock, such as social media, games or video.
3. Allow notifications: they deliver the reminder and bring you from the block screen back into RemindLock.
4. Create a reminder with a title and a due time.
5. At the due time a normal notification fires and the apps you picked lock.
6. Resolve it in RemindLock: type "I did" plus the reminder (or take a photo if it's set to photo), move it, or drop it.

Why a notification is easy to ignore

A notification is one swipe from gone, and nothing brings it back. RemindLock still sends one, but the lock stays until the reminder is resolved, not until a timer ends; you see it when you open a locked app, and it shows the first tiny step or the title.

Three ways out

• Done: type "I did" plus the title; small typos are forgiven.
• "Can't do it now": pick a specific new time at least 15 minutes out and type why, twice per reminder, with your reason shown back next time.
• Drop it: type "I'm dropping" plus the title, framed as a decision, not a failure.

There's no snooze button that pushes it ten minutes and forgets.

Strict mode

Optional and off by default; while a lock is active RemindLock can't be deleted, and lock sets and Screen Time access can't be changed in the app. The emergency unlock still works.

Keep your Apple Reminders lists

Optional and read-only; it brings in incomplete reminders with a due date from the lists you pick and they lock like native ones. RemindLock never creates, edits, completes or deletes anything there, and completing one in Apple Reminders clears its lock on the next refresh.

What to look for in a reminder app

A few plain criteria, whatever app you end up using:

• It's still there after you dismiss the notification.
• Moving a reminder takes a decision (a specific new time), not a tap.
• It's kind when you miss one (no streaks or scores).
• It works with the lists you already have.
• Your reminders stay on your phone (no account).
• There's a real way out in an emergency.

Honest limits

• iPhone only (no Android, iPad or Mac).
• It needs Screen Time permission.
• There's a daily emergency unlock, in the app only, that lifts all locks for 15 minutes and then they come back, without resolving anything.
• Phone, Messages and the apps you mark as always allowed are never locked.