Moment: Cut Screen Time

Do one daily challenge! Get a handle on your screen time one day at a time. Get it done!

Fixes a crashing bug

Trying to fix a crashing bug when you're starting a Phone Fast.

A few small bug fixes

Fixes bug with selecting your Phone Fast length. You were forced to fast for exactly one hour, no more, no less. That's a less than optimal experience and you deserve better. You can now rightfully choose whatever works best for you!

Enjoy that freedom, but use it wisely. With great UI power comes great responsibility.

Introducing the Phone Fasting feature! Break up with your phone (sometimes). It's not you, it's me.

Start a phone fast to commit to putting down your phone for some amount of time. This is especially important in the presence of family and friends.

Stay safe and happy holidays from the entire Moment team!

Moment can now rescue you from a rabbit hole! When you use your phone for more than 15 minutes at a time, you'll have the option to set a healthy replacement app that Moment will nudge you towards. Think meditation instead of social media News Feeds.

Bug fixes

Working to improve coach content and UI
A couple bug fixes

• Fixes pull to refresh on the home screen
• Other bug fixes (7 this time!)

Fixes a bug with accepting group invitations.

Lots of bug fixes

• We've added a special group version of the bootcamp, so you can all go through it together and support each other and be accountable and stuff!

• Adds a line for your average screen time, pickups, and in the moment time
• Fixes a few bugs

Dark mode support!

(Sorry this took so long!)

• Fixes a bug where the bar chart labels on the home screen would be inaccurate. Sorry about that!

* Improving the chart view
* Clearly showing your progress through the Moment Guide
* Adding a link to view the trailer for The Social Dilemma documentary (go and watch it!)

Completely revamped app!
* Brand new, simpler design
* New family/groups functionality
* Expanded Coach content

Quick bug fix!

Fixes a crashing bug. Sorry about that! Moment should be much more stable now.

Improvements for iOS 13

A few important bug fixes, and many stability improvements to keep Moment tracking your screen time better.

Lots of bug fixes and performance improvements. Only 2 this time, but they're important ones!

Thank you for using Moment!

Lots of bug fixes and performance improvements. 14 this time!

Thank you for using Moment!
~The Moment Team

Lots of bug fixes and performance improvements. 26 to be exact!

Thank you for using Moment!
~The Moment Team

• Fixes a bug that would crash Moment for a small number of people

I'm sorry about this bug!

Small Changes
• Brings back the big Screen Time stat and the red, yellow, and green colors to let you know how you're doing today in relation to your goal.
• Adds a bar chart of your screen time in this past week. We've been calling it "This Week In Screen Time."
• Fixes a few bugs that would cause the app to crash.


Thank you to all of your who wrote into our support or wrote an App Store review with your feedback. We're listening and constantly improving Moment. Bring it on if you have more feedback!

If you've found Moment useful, it would be a huge favor to us if you rated the app in the App Store. You're so cool! :-)

Moment 4.0 is here!

Big changes
• Redesigned main screen with a focus on pickups too
• 4 new Moment Coach courses
- Better Sleep
- Attention Span
- Family Intro
- Mini Detox
• Set pickup and screen time goals (replacing the old Daily Limits)
• Moment Family is now free
• Moment Coach subscription
• Better first run experience

Small changes
- Lots of bug fixes
- iOS 12 improvements



If you've found Moment helpful, you can help support it by rating this new version in the App Store. Thanks! Enjoy the moment :-)

Fixes a crash on iOS 11. Sorry about that!

• iOS 11 improvements
• Little bug fixes here and there

• New Bored & Brilliant course


Small changes
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- View more stats while you're going through a course (screen time, # of pickups, % of your waking life you're on your phone, and sleep)
- Establish a baseline screen time from day 1, even going back in time to the week before you installed Moment
- Fixes issue with loading on Apple Watch
- Silent daily limit sound


If you've found Moment useful for your family, I'd love it if you left a review in the App Store. Thanks so much!

Big changes
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• Screen time tracking now works in Airplane Mode
• Plays annoying audio when you’re over your limit
• Tap and drag on an Insight graph to view the exact stats from that day


Smaller changes
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- Adds haptic feedback throughout the app
- “Pro Features” are now called “Moment Premium”
- Getting Started guide
- Properly ignores certain apps from your Insights
- Adds an “Other” gender and lets you pick your preferred gender pronoun
- Fixes bugs and crashes




If you've found Moment helpful, or think it will be for your family, you can help support it by rating it in the App Store. Enjoy the moment :-)

• Stability improvements. Moment does a better job of running in the background and automatically restarting.
• Improved error handling when something goes wrong with a Battery screenshot.

• Lots of little changes and bug fixes

If you've found Moment useful, it would be a huge favor to me if you rated the app in the App Store. You're so cool :-)

Introducing Insights - Dive deeper into your screen time to spot trends. Screen time, pickups, most used apps: it's all there on pretty graphs. I even added a stat you're going to love to hate: what % of your waking life you spend on your phone. So far, the average across every Moment user is 20.8% of your day on your phone. How do you think you compare?


Smaller changes
• Improves tracking accuracy
• Easier to take your Battery screenshots
• Lots of bug fixes


If you've found Moment helpful, or think it will be for your family, you can help support it by rating it in the App Store. Enjoy the moment :-)

Little Changes
• Rate limits the Battery screenshot reminder. Moment won't constantly bother you now if you skip one.
• Fixes an app tracking bug for days before October 9th.
• Updates average daily phone use stats.
• Refreshes your stats page every 24 hours.
• Fixes the calculation of your average screen time and average pickups per day when you're excluding certain apps from counting.
• Only showing the 'How To Track Apps' modal when you're relatively new to the feature. Grizzled veterans don't need it any more.

If you've found Moment useful for your family, I'd love it if you left a review in the App Store. Rock on!

• Fixes a syncing bug that would break Moment Family for new families

I'm really sorry about this bug :-(

Big Changes
• Weekly Battery screenshots. Want to track what apps you use the most, but hate taking a screenshot every single morning? I'm with you! You can now take a Battery screenshot only once per week and still cover every single day. It's a little less accurate, but hardly noticeable. Go to the settings > App Use Detection > Schedule and rejoice in saving a mundane step every morning! 15 seconds of effort per week = app use tracking for each day of the week.
• Adds a screen to see your average app usages over the past week for each app. Also, I added a tiny survey to see if you're happy with this usage. I'm working with Time Well Spent to figure out which apps are worth the time you spend on them and which aren't. We'll be sharing the results :-)

Small Changes
• Instant feedback the first few times you take a Battery screenshot. It's a tricky process at first, and the app now does a better job of telling you errors (like forgetting to tap the clock) before the screenshot is uploaded and fully processed.
• Your timeline remembers if you want to show all of your app usage at once.
• Tweaks the How It Works text for the App Use Detection feature.
• Fixes a bug that would give you a checkmark for completing the Lights Out step of the Phone Bootcamp, even if you had failed.
• When you tap on Restore Purchase for the Pro Features and nothing is found, a modal pops up now letting you know. Before, it would just silently fail.
• Fixes a few UI bugs on iOS 10.
• Fixes lots of crashes (they're almost all gone now).


If you've found Moment helpful, or think it will be for your family, you can help support it by rating it in the App Store. Enjoy the moment :-)

Small Changes
• Fixes a bug on the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus that would cause your Battery screenshots to go unnoticed.
• Fixes the Battery screenshot interaction for iOS 10. You have to manually open the Settings app > Battery screen now. You can't just tap on the notification like you could on iOS 9. :-(
• "New" Today widget. It's basically the same as the old one, but looks prettier on iOS 10.
• Raises the default daily limit (for people on the free version) to 2H 50M. With the average being 3H 54M per day, this is a bit closer than the previous default of 1H 10M.
• Fixes a bug where you could turn on App Use Detection on an iPad. Tracking apps on your iPad isn't supported yet. I'm working on it.
• Clearer warnings when App Use Detection isn't active because Moment doesn't have Photos permission.
• Lets you know what's going on the first time you use the Exclude Certain Apps feature, especially if you just turned on App Use Detection. Mostly, this lets you know why no apps are found when you try to search for them (hint: it's because Moment hasn't logged any apps you use yet).
• Fixes another handful of crashes.




If you've found Moment useful, it would be a huge favor to me if you rated the app in the App Store. You're so cool :-)

Nothing major here. Mostly bugfixes.

• Fixes the What's New modal to play nicely with bigger fonts
• Fixes bug where app use detection could be turned on when your phone's language isn't supported yet (it's still English only)
• Fixes a few crashes


If you've found Moment helpful, you can help support it by rating this newest version in the App Store. Woot woot!

Lots of app tracking changes!
• Don't want your GPS app to count against you? No problem. If you're using the individual app tracking, you can exclude any app from your daily phone use history. Personally, I have mine set up to not count Maps and Moment itself. Those shouldn't count, right?!
• Tap directly on the Battery reminder notification to go straight to the Settings app. Taking your Battery screenshot each morning used to take 15 seconds. Now it takes 7. Every little bit counts.
• Can't fit all of your apps in one puny Battery screenshot? Now, you can take multiple screenshots and Moment will combine them. After you take the first screenshot, scroll down to show more apps then snap another one.
• Updates the tutorial screencast for taking your Battery screenshots. You should watch it. It's thrilling stuff. Settings > App Use Detection > How It Works > Watch Video
• Bulk delete your Battery screenshots from your Photos library after they've been processed
• Adds a link to see everyone's most used apps last week (Settings > App Use Detection > Most Used Apps)
• The data export now includes your app usages (Settings > Advanced > Export Data)
• Cleaned up confusion around why the app use detection wasn't working for some people
• Holds your hand for the first few Battery screenshots. After you tap on the notification and the Settings app opens, you'll see another notification letting you know exactly what to do from there.


Your tiny reminders now let you know if you're getting close to your daily limit
Does a better job of showing you why Moment was paused on your timeline
Fixes lots of crashes and bugs


If you've found Moment helpful, you can help support it by rating this newest version in the App Store. You're the best!

Moment 3 is here!

Big Changes
• App Tracking - Moment now keeps track of what apps you use the most on your phone almost automatically. This has been my #1 most requested feature and it is finally here! Yayyyy!
• Coach - Moment can teach you to use your phone less if that's your goal. To start out, the Coach has a 14-day Phone Bootcamp course to help you rethink your relationship with your phone, one day at a time. In the morning, you'll get a fun and somewhat difficult exercise for the day, something like "Don't use your phone in the bathroom today." This is a new pro feature.
• Redesigned settings screen - This was long overdue. I reorganized all of the settings to make everything easier to understand. I added pretty icons too.

Small Changes
• Added a What's New screen. I'll keep you up-to-date on the biggest changes when you launch the app for the first time.
• Added two new stats: How often you pick up your phone and what percentage of your waking life you spend on your phone. I pick up my phone every 26 minutes and spend 6% of my waking life on it.
• You can now access the stats page if you've used the app for two weeks. Previously, it was limited to two months.
• Added new screenshots to the Pro Features pitch screen.
• Displaying better warnings if Moment isn't set up properly.
• Using the word "phone" and "tablet" now.
• Minor battery improvements.
• Improved VoiceOver support throughout.
• Removed the "quick pause" button on the main screen. If you want Moment to stop tracking your phone use for a while, go to the settings screen > Phone Use Detection and turn that switch off.


If you've found Moment helpful, you can help support it by rating this new version in the App Store. Thanks! Enjoy the moment :-)

• More battery improvements
• Fixed a bug that would cause the app to crash

You would be my new best friend if you rated the app in the App Store. Thanks!

Fixes a syncing bug if you were using Moment Family. Moment Family should work much better now.

I'm sorry about that.

Big Changes
• Battery improvements abound! This version of Moment should be less of a hit on your battery. On my own phone, it uses about 30% less battery. Yay and stuff!

Small Changes
• Fixes a bug that would cause the previous couple days to display as "0 minutes" of phone use. No data was lost in the fixing of this bug.
• If you're using the free version and you check out your stats, I ask you nicely to share them with your friends to support Moment. I only ask once.
• Fixed a few bugs that would cause the app to crash.


If you've found Moment useful, it would be a huge favor to me if you rated the app in the App Store. You're so cool :-)

Big Changes
• Version 2.5 is all about visualizing your phone usage data. You can see basics like the average amount of time you spend on your phone each day, and also interesting tidbits like the longest straight you've ever gone without touching your phone. Tap on the graph icon on the main screen to see into your phone usage in a way you never have before. Oh, and you can share your stats as a groovy infographic too!
• Parents: you can now lock your child's settings from your phone. When you lock their settings, your kid won't be able to change their daily max or the "force me off over my limit" feature, among a few other settings. It should give you a little more control over your child disabling Moment.

Small Changes
• Improves typography of the screen-free countdown timer on the main screen. Monospaced numeric fonts FTW.
• If you already have a Moment account and you try to log in through the sign up form, you'll still be logged in. You were close enough!
• Adds iPad Pro app icon.
• Warns you on the settings screen if Moment doesn't have permission to send you notifications.
• Squashed two bugs that would crash the app.


If you've found Moment helpful, or think it will be for your family, you can help support it by rating it in the App Store or sharing your phone usage infographic with your friends. Enjoy the moment :-)

• Improves accuracy of your phone usage statistics.
• Angry emoji-fies the notifications when you're over your limit.
• Fixes the Apple Watch app. Finally, Kevin!
• Renames the Unlock Everything upgrade to Pro Features. Also, added some screenshots to the elevator pitch screen for the Pro Features in-app purchase. There, you'll see my shining smile and stunning good looks. Now focus on the rest of the release notes!
• Keeps track of when you change your daily limit so you can look back on yourself in shame. I know holidays with your family can get tense, but you didn't *need* to spend an extra hour and a half on your phone.
• Tweaks the text alignment for buttons on the settings screen to make it fit in better on iOS 9. (Now slide to the left, everybody clap your hands.)
• Removes the super easy way to disable the Force Me Off Over My Limit feature. If you need to make an emergency call, tap the home button then swipe to the right, then tap "Emergency."
• Makes the about screen more useful for debugging problems. Also, made it prettier.

Little bug fixes here and there.


If you've found Moment helpful for you or your family, you can help support it by rating it in the App Store. Enjoy the moment :-D