Intentime Support and How to Use

Quick start

1. Open Settings in Intentime and approve Apple Screen Time Individual Authorization.
2. Use Apple’s picker to select apps, categories, or websites you want to protect.
3. When a protected target is shielded, return to Intentime and choose your purpose.
4. Choose a 3, 5, 10, or 15 minute active-use budget.
5. Use the temporarily opened target, then return to record Completed, Distracted, Lost purpose, or a 3-minute extension.
6. Review Today and your local Promise Gap evidence.

What “active-use budget” means

The selected time is not a wall-clock countdown. It is a budget observed through Apple Device Activity. Apple controls callbacks and background work, so protection may resume earlier or later. If use stops or a callback is delayed, an approximately 15-minute system safety boundary may close access. Treat the displayed time as an intentional-use boundary, not a second-accurate timer.

Opening the protected target

On iOS 26.5 or later, Intentime uses Apple’s direct app-opening path when available. On lower supported iOS versions, tap the optional local notification or open Intentime manually. Local notifications can be delayed or hidden by notification permission, Focus, Scheduled Summary, lock state, or system policy.

Live Activity

The optional Live Activity shows the budget and, after evidence exists, a confirmed usage lower bound. It does not show the protected app name, purpose, or Screen Time token. On iOS 17 or later, use Refresh from the Lock Screen or expanded Dynamic Island to update local status. There is no remote push or automatic background real-time update. Shield works independently if Live Activity is unavailable.

Emergency Access

Use Emergency Access when you must recover access. It removes Intentime Shield and monitoring. Afterward, open Settings and explicitly resume protection. Do not protect apps you may urgently need for calls, authentication, security, medical needs, payments, or emergency communication.

Reset local data

In Settings, choose Reset Intentime data to stop monitors and Shield and remove local selections, pending and active state, recovery targets, diagnostics, sessions, onboarding, language, and protection-pause settings. If part of the reset fails, follow the partial-completion message and retry. Deleting the app generally removes the app containers, subject to Apple backup and restore behavior.

Reset or app deletion does not cancel Intentime Pro or remove Apple purchase records. Manage the subscription separately in your Apple Account.

Intentime Pro

• Purchase monthly or annual Pro from the paywall using the price shown by Apple.
• Use Restore Purchases in the paywall or Settings for the same Apple Account.
• Use Apple Account subscription settings to manage or cancel.
• Pro access can restore; local session history and custom-purpose text do not sync between devices.

Troubleshooting

Shield does not appear or resume

• Confirm Screen Time authorization is active and the target is still selected.
• Open Intentime and check session recovery or protection status.
• If you used Emergency Access, resume protection explicitly in Settings.

A notification or Live Activity is missing

• Check iOS notification and Live Activity settings, Focus, Scheduled Summary, and Lock Screen settings.
• Open Intentime directly; these status aids are optional and do not control Shield.

Usage looks lower than expected

Intentime reports only evidence Apple has confirmed, such as a threshold lower bound, plus an access-window upper bound where available. It does not claim exact whole-device usage. “Unknown” or a lower bound can be the accurate result.

Reset is incomplete

Follow the in-app partial-completion details and retry. If protection remains when you need access, use Emergency Access and review Screen Time authorization in iOS Settings.

Privacy and subscriptions

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