Block work apps after hours.
Focus, Downtime, App Limits or a dedicated blocker. What each one actually does after 6 PM, side by side.
Notes on clocking out.
Step-by-step guides to keeping Slack, Teams and work email off your iPhone when work is over. Plain steps, honest limits.
Slack notifications and channels
Choose the right control for channel membership, sidebar clutter, notifications and after-hours access.
Does Slack notify people when you leave a channel?
Public and private departure messages, workspace settings, rejoining and when muting solves the problem.
Stop Slack after work.
Set a notification schedule, pause on demand, and close the gap Slack’s own settings leave open.
Mute, not hide, a Slack channel.
Silence a Slack channel and still see it in your sidebar. Three ways to do it, and when to leave instead.
Reduce Slack notifications, setting by setting.
Every Slack setting that cuts the noise, in the order that makes the biggest difference first.
Clear a stuck Slack notification.
The red badge that won’t clear, the alert that keeps coming back: where it hides and how to get rid of it.
Slack’s notify anyway, explained.
What happens when someone overrides your paused Slack notifications, and the settings that keep it rare.
Turn off paused Slack notifications.
Resume Slack notifications in two taps, and find out why Slack keeps pausing them on its own.
iPhone quiet hours and Screen Time
Understand what Focus, Screen Time and Teams quiet hours each control: alerts, app access and schedules.
iPhone quiet hours, set up the right way.
There’s no quiet hours switch on iPhone. Here’s how to build one with Focus, Sleep and Scheduled Summary.
Teams quiet hours on iPhone.
Silence Teams on your phone every evening and all weekend, and know the two gaps quiet hours leave.
Does Focus block apps? No. Here’s what does.
Focus filters notifications, but your apps still open. Here’s what actually blocks apps on iPhone.
Turn off your work apps on iPhone.
Mute, hide, remove, offload or sign out: every way to turn off work apps on iPhone, and which are quick to undo.
A Work Focus that clocks out at six.
A Work Focus by day and a Personal Focus that hides work by night, with Mail and Calendar filters.
Out-of-office replies and vacation email
Set the right reply for Outlook, Gmail, Apple Mail or Teams, then manage work email while you are away.
Out of office on your iPhone.
Turn on an out of office reply from your iPhone, whichever app holds your work email, then actually stay out.
Turn off work email on vacation.
Auto-replies in Outlook and Gmail, silence, and a block that lasts until the morning you’re back.
Gmail out of office from your iPhone.
Turn on Gmail’s vacation responder from the iPhone app, and know exactly who gets it and when.
Outlook out of office from your iPhone.
Set Outlook automatic replies from the iPhone app, with dates, an internal message and a cleared calendar.
Out of office in Slack, done properly.
A Slack status that clears itself, notifications that stay paused until you’re back, and what your team sees meanwhile.
Teams out of office from your iPhone.
Yes, you can schedule out of office in the Teams iPhone app. Here’s how, and how it syncs with Outlook.
Work-app blocking
Compare Downtime, selected-app blockers and weekend schedules, then choose the approach that fits your work apps.
Out of Office, the app for after hours.
What Out of Office does, how its schedules and switch work, what it keeps private, and what it won’t do.
Pick the right app blocker for work apps.
Most blockers fight screen time. Here’s what a blocker for work apps needs, and how the options compare.
Block work apps all weekend on iPhone.
Four ways to keep work apps out of your weekend on iPhone, from a weekend Focus to a Friday to Monday shield.
Downtime vs an app blocker.
How Downtime really works, why it lets apps through, and when a work app blocker fits better.
Clock out. Actually.
Out of Office shields your work apps on a schedule, on iPhone and iPad.
Download on theApp Store