Let your AI hold the keys to your distracting apps.

Group the apps that eat your evenings. Focus Keys shields them on your iPhone — and when you want them back, you ask your assistant, not your willpower. Muse, ChatGPT or Claude sees your day and decides: "Send the report first — then 15 minutes of Instagram."

Get the iPhone app Connect your assistant

Blocks that hold

Recurring windows (weeknights 21:30–07:00) and one-off blocks run on Apple's Screen Time engine, even with the app closed.

Passes, not surrender

Tap "Ask for a pass" on a shield, say why. Your AI grants a timed unlock that re-locks itself — or says "not now" with a reason.

Your AI knows your day

It sees your calendar, tasks and sleep through its own connectors. Focus Keys just gives it the keys.

Private by design

Which apps you picked never leaves the phone — Apple's tokens are opaque. We store group names and counts, nothing more.

How it works

  1. Install Focus Keys on your iPhone and allow Screen Time access.
  2. Build groups: Social, Video, Delivery — pick the apps and websites for each.
  3. Set the windows you never want them in. The phone enforces them on its own.
  4. Connect your assistant and give it a pairing code. From then on: "Block Social till I finish" — "Can I have 15 minutes?"

Price

$6.99/month or $49.99/year — cancel any time; full refund in the first 30 days. Blocks and schedules you set on the phone stay free forever; the subscription is for the keys your assistant holds.

Focus Keys is a productivity tool, not a medical or parental-control product. It runs on your own phone with your own consent, and you can unpair it at any time.