- Big update for one sec’s conversational reflection intervention. Completely redesigned & improved tech stack. - App Icon picker updated and UI fixes. - Bug fixes around strict block of apps. - Fixes an issue where strict block limitations were already enforced while a strict block was being created. - one sec uninstall protection during strict blocks. - Fix “Re-Intervention” and “Always Ask” time picker animation glitch. - Fix selection of breathing prompt text – and simplified breathing prompt customization while we were at it. - Fix glitch in LENGO vocab list, now you can select and delete words again. - Fix one sec’s time budget intervention. Hope you like these improvements & bug fixes! If one sec helps you, please support our work by writing a review on the App Store. Thank you :) – Frederik

Hey lovely one sec user! In addition to the announcements of our BIG 5.0 update, we’re taking the time today to polish the update and address some bugs: - Fixes an issue where the intention picker would not show up. - Sheet automatically resizes to full-screen when selecting a custom block duration. - Overlapping blocks are now sorted correctly. - Advanced breathing exercises (such as box breathing or 4-7-8) now use Liquid Glass for the dismiss button as well. - Slightly refined settings UI – and moved iCloud Backup settings under the account tab. - Fix where the toggle to turn off 50% budget remaining notifications did not work. - Ensures that our FAQs are shown when pressing the FAQ button on the tips tab. - Fixes an issue where the phone-free morning / Awake integration wouldn’t display the selected set of apps and categories. - Changes the icon for the phone-free morning to a more friendly one. - Fixes multiple background crashes (hopefully). - Fixes an issue where the toggle to enable a weekday-based intervention schedule wouldn't work. - Automatically expands the new block sheet to full size while selecting a custom time interval. - Adds a new toggle in “Don’t get lost notifications” to show a warning notification when reaching a 50% threshold of a Re-Intervention or delayed intervention. - Applies new Liquid Glass design to “U sure bout that?” intervention. Don’t forget: if you like one sec, please write us a nice review on the App Store. This helps to spread the word about the app. Thanks a lot for your ongoing support, have a great day! – Frederik

Hey lovely one sec user! In addition to the BIG announcements of last week’s 5.0 update, we’re taking the time today to polish the update and address some bugs: - Fixes an issue where the intention picker would not show up. - Sheet automatically resizes to full-screen when selecting a custom block duration. - Overlapping blocks are now sorted correctly. - Advanced breathing exercises (such as box breathing or 4-7-8) now use Liquid Glass for the dismiss button as well. - Slightly refined settings UI – and moved iCloud Backup settings under the account tab. - Fix where the toggle to turn off 50% budget remaining notifications did not work. - Ensures that our FAQs are shown when pressing the FAQ button on the tips tab. - Fixes an issue where the phone-free morning / Awake integration wouldn’t display the selected set of apps and categories. - Changes the icon for the phone-free morning to a more friendly one. - Fixes multiple background crashes (hopefully). - Fixes an issue where the toggle to enable a weekday-based intervention schedule wouldn't work. - Automatically expands the new block sheet to full size while selecting a custom time interval. - Adds a new toggle in “Don’t get lost notifications” to show a warning notification when reaching a 50% threshold of a Re-Intervention or delayed intervention. - Applies new Liquid Glass design to “U sure bout that?” intervention. Don’t forget: if you like one sec, please write us a nice review on the App Store. This helps to spread the word about the app. Thanks a lot for your ongoing support, have a great day! – Frederik

Hey lovely one sec user! In addition to the BIG announcements of last week’s 5.0 update, we’re taking the time today to polish the update and address some bugs: - Fixes an issue where the phone-free morning / Awake integration wouldn’t display the selected set of apps and categories. - Changes the icon for the phone-free morning to a more friendly one. - Fixes multiple background crashes (hopefully). - Fixes an issue where the toggle to enable a weekday-based intervention schedule wouldn't work. - Automatically expands the new block sheet to full size while selecting a custom time interval. - Adds a new toggle in “Don’t get lost notifications” to show a warning notification when reaching a 50% threshold of a Re-Intervention or delayed intervention. - Applies new Liquid Glass design to “U sure bout that?” intervention. Don’t forget: if you like one sec, please write us a nice review on the App Store. This helps to spread the word about the app. Thanks a lot for your ongoing support, have a great day! – Frederik

We’re celebrating one sec’s 5th birthday this month. It’s hard to believe that it’s been 5 years already since I started working on one sec. I’m grateful every day I get to work on such an impactful app with the best team I could wish for! This summer, we’ve been working extremely hard on a large list of new features, improvements and bug-fixes and we can’t wait to get it into your hands. We decided to call this update: one sec 5.0 This update brings… …an all-new block tab: upcoming & past blocks at a glance (no matter if they are triggered by a Schedule, a manual Block, Good Morning Countdown, Focus Filter, a Structured task…). …an all-new tips tab with hands-on tips to get the most out of one sec & your new life. …a new conversational reflection intervention using the new on-device LLM helping you to reflect even more on why you open apps. …a much improved ”Good Morning Countdown“ that now integrates with the new no-mercy alarm clock app “Awake”. …iCloud backup for your stats (preventions & time saved). …many many design refinements and bug fixes throughout one sec. If you like one sec & our continuous work on it, please take a moment to write a review on the App Store. Thank you very much for your support! – Frederik

We’re celebrating one sec’s 5th birthday this month. It’s hard to believe that it’s been 5 years already since I started working on one sec. I’m grateful every day I get to work on such an impactful app with the best team I could wish for! This summer, we’ve been working extremely hard on a large list of new features, improvements and bug-fixes and we can’t wait to get it into your hands. We decided to call this update: one sec 5.0 This update brings… …an all-new block tab: upcoming & past blocks at a glance (no matter if they are triggered by a Schedule, a manual Block, Good Morning Countdown, Focus Filter, a Structured task…). …an all-new tips tab with hands-on tips to get the most out of one sec & your new life. …a new conversational reflection intervention using the new on-device LLM helping you to reflect even more on why you open apps. …a much improved ”Good Morning Countdown“ that now integrates with the new no-mercy alarm clock app “Awake”. …many many design refinements and bug fixes throughout one sec. If you like one sec & our continuous work on it, please take a moment to write a review on the App Store. Thank you very much for your support! – Frederik

We’re celebrating one sec’s 5th birthday this month. It’s hard to believe that it’s been 5 years already since I started working on one sec. I’m grateful every day I get to work on such an impactful app with the best team I could wish for! This summer, we’ve been working extremely hard on a large list of new features, improvements and bug-fixes and we can’t wait to get it into your hands. We decided to call this update: one sec 5.0 This update brings… …an all-new block tab: upcoming & past blocks at a glance (no matter if they are triggered by a Schedule, a manual Block, Good Morning Countdown, Focus Filter, a Structured task…). …an all-new tips tab with hands-on tips to get the most out of one sec & your new life. …a new conversational reflection intervention using the new on-device LLM helping you to reflect even more on why you open apps. …a much improved ”Good Morning Countdown“ that now integrates with the new no-mercy alarm clock app “Awake”. …many many design refinements and bug fixes throughout one sec.

This update fixes an issue where one sec’s “Settings Lock” could result in very short intervention times. On top of that, we’re adding a new research collaboration with Wuppertal University.

This update fixes an issue where one sec’s “Settings Lock” could result in very short intervention times. On top of that, we’re adding a new research collaboration with Wuppertal University.

- Automatically removes target app lock / “intervention cheat prevention” after 1 minute. - Fixes an issue where on some devices Re-Interventions could be removed by locking and unlocking the device screen. - Fixes an issue where under some circumstanced blocked apps could be unlocked during blocks. - Delayed interventions now follow intervention schedules as well. - Fixes an issue with research studies.

This update contains smaller bug fixes and improvements: Ensures that the settings lock and shortcuts app lock uses the default breathing exercise when the budgeting feature is enabled.

- Fixes an issue where the anti-cheat protection would remain active even when the target app is allowed to be used (e..g allowed by focus filter). - Fixes an issue where the Structured intervention would not trigger for Delayed Interventions. You need to set up Automations for the target apps, in order for the Structured intervention to work, even for the new Delayed Intervention mode. - Accessibility VoiceOver improvements for the time interval picker (Re-Interventions and “Always Ask Intervention”). Shout-out to Marissa for bringing this to our attention! - Improves capabilities to re-connect apps via the Screen Time app picker in case glitches with Apple’s Screen Time framework occur. - Smaller UI improvements and bug fixes throughout the whole app. If you like one sec and the continuous work we put into app updates, I’d highly appreciate if you could take three minutes to leave a review on the App Store ＜3 – Frederik

– Fixes an issue where block sessions would not trigger for apps set up with the new delayed intervention mode. – Fixes an issue where the onboarding survey would pop up all the time for users who just want to use one sec’s block schedule feature. – Fixes an issue with importing vocabulary from LENGO.

- If a subscription expires, and you had the one sec settings lock enabled, you can now go through an intervention again to unlock one sec’s settings. - Fixes an issue where you couldn’t add new websites to one sec’s Safari extension. - Fixes an issue where the latest update of one sec would crash on iOS 16 devices. Sorry about the trouble!

This update adds a new data donation research project in collaboration with RWTH Aachen. If you’d like to participate, please fill out the opt-in survey that’s shown in a banner on one sec’s Overview page.

Another small, but important bug-fix update: - Fixes an issue where per-app breathing prompts were not saved permanently. - Fixes an issue where the “Lock Target App during Intervention” feature would keep locking the target app even when the intervention is turned off or the intervention mode is switched. - Ensures that push permission is granted when “Always Ask” intervention is set up.

Small, but important bug fixes: - Make sure that up-to-date target apps are available to be selected in Focus Filters. - Fixes an issue where turning on / off the Re-Intervention was not saved for individual target apps. - Push notification permission was not requested when setting up a delayed intervention. - App-based Max. Re-Intervention Time Interval was not permanently saved. - Re-Intervention would only allow you to choose 1 minute (or unlimited) in some rare cases. - Automations would not trigger, if the intervention for a target app had previously been turned off. Sorry about the inconvenience! On top of these bug fixes, this update of course also includes the big new features of the previous version: We’ve been working hard over the past year to offer two new intervention modes: - Delayed Intervention Mode: You can now set up a fixed delay after which the intervention should become active: so you can use a target app within boundaries (e.g. 2 minutes per hour) without getting interrupted - “Always ask” Intervention Mode: Every time you open a target app, you’ll be prompted to set the time you intend to spend on it, and only after the time has been consumed the target app will be shielded – and an intervention is required to unlock more time. These two new intervention modes have been highly requested features and are basically the “Re-Intervention without the initial breathing exercise”. We’ve run one scientific research project on this each with the Danish and German governments and are super happy with the results: This new mode is less frustrating while also being extremely effective in reducing time spent on target apps. one sec’s standard immediate intervention mode remains available unchanged, of course. On top of that, we’ve also improved many smaller aspects of one sec: - You can now add custom apps without knowing their URL schemes (but without that one sec can’t automatically open the target app unfortunately, so you have to proceed to the target app manually). - You can now set the Maximum Re-Intervention Time Interval on a per-app basis. - Intervention & Block Schedules now display the weekday selection in a localized manner (start of week). - Translation improvements throughout the app. - Lock time & time zone settings during strict blocks to prevent cheating. - LENGO integration accessibility improvements for voice over.

This update fixes some important bugs: - Push notification permission was not requested when setting up a delayed intervention. - App-based Max. Re-Intervention Time Interval was not permanently saved. - Re-Intervention would only allow you to chose 1 minute (or unlimited) in some rare cases. - Automations would not trigger, if the intervention for a target app had previously been turned off. Sorry about the inconvenience! On top of these bug fixes, this update of course also includes the big new features of the previous version: We’ve been working hard over the past year to offer two new intervention modes: - Delayed Intervention Mode: You can now set up a fixed delay after which the intervention should become active: so you can use a target app within boundaries (e.g. 2 minutes per hour) without getting interrupted - “Always ask” Intervention Mode: Every time you open a target app, you’ll be prompted to set the time you intend to spend on it, and only after the time has been consumed the target app will be shielded – and an intervention is required to unlock more time. These two new intervention modes have been highly requested features and are basically the “Re-Intervention without the initial breathing exercise”. We’ve run one scientific research project on this each with the Danish and German governments and are super happy with the results: This new mode is less frustrating while also being extremely effective in reducing time spent on target apps. one sec’s standard immediate intervention mode remains available unchanged, of course. On top of that, we’ve also improved many smaller aspects of one sec: - You can now add custom apps without knowing their URL schemes (but without that one sec can’t automatically open the target app unfortunately, so you have to proceed to the target app manually). - You can now set the Maximum Re-Intervention Time Interval on a per-app basis. - Intervention & Block Schedules now display the weekday selection in a localized manner (start of week). - Translation improvements throughout the app. - Lock time & time zone settings during strict blocks to prevent cheating. - LENGO integration accessibility improvements for voice over.

This update fixes some important bugs: - App-based Max. Re-Intervention Time Interval was not permanently saved. - Re-Intervention would only allow you to chose 1 minute (or unlimited) in some rare cases. - Automations would not trigger, if the intervention for a target app had previously been turned off. Sorry about the inconvenience! On top of these bug fixes, this update of course also includes the big new features of the previous version: We’ve been working hard over the past year to offer two new intervention modes: - Delayed Intervention Mode: You can now set up a fixed delay after which the intervention should become active: so you can use a target app within boundaries (e.g. 2 minutes per hour) without getting interrupted - “Always ask” Intervention Mode: Every time you open a target app, you’ll be prompted to set the time you intend to spend on it, and only after the time has been consumed the target app will be shielded – and an intervention is required to unlock more time. These two new intervention modes have been highly requested features and are basically the “Re-Intervention without the initial breathing exercise”. We’ve run one scientific research project on this each with the Danish and German governments and are super happy with the results: This new mode is less frustrating while also being extremely effective in reducing time spent on target apps. one sec’s standard immediate intervention mode remains available unchanged, of course. On top of that, we’ve also improved many smaller aspects of one sec: - You can now add custom apps without knowing their URL schemes (but without that one sec can’t automatically open the target app unfortunately, so you have to proceed to the target app manually). - You can now set the Maximum Re-Intervention Time Interval on a per-app basis. - Intervention & Block Schedules now display the weekday selection in a localized manner (start of week). - Translation improvements throughout the app. - Lock time & time zone settings during strict blocks to prevent cheating. - LENGO integration accessibility improvements for voice over.

The next BIG update of one sec is here: We’ve been working hard over the past year to offer two new intervention modes: - Delayed Intervention Mode: You can now set up a fixed delay after which the intervention should become active: so you can use a target app within boundaries (e.g. 2 minutes per hour) without getting interrupted - “Always ask” Intervention Mode: Every time you open a target app, you’ll be prompted to set the time you intend to spend on it, and only after the time has been consumed the target app will be shielded – and an intervention is required to unlock more time. These two new intervention modes have been highly requested features and are basically the “Re-Intervention without the initial breathing exercise”. We’ve run one scientific research project on this each with the Danish and German governments and are super happy with the results: This new mode is less frustrating while also being extremely effective in reducing time spent on target apps. one sec’s standard immediate intervention mode remains available unchanged, of course. On top of that, we’ve also improved many smaller aspects of one sec: - You can now add custom apps without knowing their URL schemes (but without that one sec can’t automatically open the target app unfortunately, so you have to proceed to the target app manually). - You can now set the Maximum Re-Intervention Time Interval on a per-app basis. - Intervention & Block Schedules now display the weekday selection in a localized manner (start of week). - Translation improvements throughout the app. - Lock time & time zone settings during strict blocks to prevent cheating. - LENGO integration accessibility improvements for voice over.

- Fixes an issue where the adult content detox feature could not be turned on in some rare cases. - Fixes an issue where opening a target app could be slow in some rare cases. - Fixes an issue where the Re-Intervention time interval picker would not work on right-to-left languages (e.g. Arabic, Hebrew). Sorry for the trouble!

Fixes a bug where the icon for “Saturday” was not visible in weekday-specific intervention schedules.

Fixes an issue where it was not possible to start a strict block session by tapping on a pre-defined time interval.

- Adds a new App Store preview video of one sec. - Adds a new research project.

- You can now directly add new apps to be used with the Focus Filter via the + button in the navigation bar top right. - Fixes an issue where the app could freeze when attempting to purchase a subscription that you already owned. On top of that, of course this version includes all improvements from yesterday’s update: - Fixes an issue where exporting journal entries would include the prompt twice instead of the actual text. - Adds a new option to Run Shortcuts directly from Healthy Alternatives. So you can directly trigger an action from another app, like playing your favorite playlist to calm down, or dumping your brain in your journaling app of your choice. - Fixes an issue where in some rare cases the wrong Structured task would’ve be displayed in the intervention. - Pre-select the current weekday when editing day-specific block / intervention schedules. - Fixes an issue where the Last-Use label was not updated when going through an Re-Intervention. - Adds the hex code of Structured colors / tasks into the Structured settings view. Keep breathing! Frederik