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Screen Time is how iOS lets an app lock other apps. LAWS asks for it once, for you, on your own iPhone. It doesn’t supervise anyone else, and it isn’t a parental control.

You choose the apps to lock with Apple’s own picker. Apple hands LAWS anonymous tokens for them, so LAWS can lock them without seeing your usage history.

If you declined at first, open LAWS and try speaking a law again, or check Settings → Screen Time, where iOS lists the apps that have Screen Time access.

Every law names what unlocks it. Where possible, LAWS checks on its own, on your phone: a run in Apple Health (from Apple Watch, Strava, Garmin and others), time at a place you named, Whoop strain or recovery, or work time measured by LAWS for Mac.

When a law can only be proven by looking, such as a made bed, you take a photo or short video. The AI judges it and opens the apps if the law was kept. Only what you submit is sent, and it isn’t stored.

If a proof isn’t being picked up, check that LAWS has permission for Health or Location in iOS Settings, and that the source app (Strava, Garmin and so on) is writing to Apple Health.

Every law has an emergency unlock for moments that genuinely can’t wait. Open the law from Your laws and choose emergency unlock.

It exists so a law never stands between you and something that matters. It is not meant as a loophole, and it works best when you use it as rarely as you would hope to.

LAWS for Mac measures real work time in the apps you choose, so a law like “no TikTok until two hours on the thesis” can be proven honestly.

It syncs that time to your iPhone through your own private iCloud, so use the same Apple account on both devices. The developer of LAWS can’t read it.

There’s no account to close. Delete the app to remove everything on your device. To remove the iCloud backup, go to iOS Settings, tap your name, then iCloud → Manage Account Storage → LAWS. The privacy policy has the details.