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Hacker News has a feature they call “<a target="" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=814695">noprocrast</a>”, which works like this:<ol><li>The first time you visit the site, it starts a timer. The duration of this timer is configurable (the setting is called “maxvisit”). You’re allowed to use the site unrestricted until this timer is up. The timer keeps ticking even when you’re not using the site.</li><li>After that hour is up, it locks you out of the site and starts another timer. The duration of this timer is also configurable (called “minaway”). It only unlocks the site after this second timer is up.</li></ol>It’s simple, but I’ve found it’s the most effective tool I’ve ever found for controlling usage of this kind of site. It is so useful that I deliberately created a custom iOS Shortcut (using the Global Variables feature from <a target="" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://toolboxpro.app/">Toolbox Pro</a>) that mimics its behaviour, and haven’t yet bought one sec pro largely because one sec will conflict with it.<h1>Why is it so useful?</h1><h2>Makes you think before you open</h2>Because the timer starts right when you first access the site, it forces you to think hard before you access it: “I’ve budgeted only an hour per day for this, am I sure I want to blow that hour now, or am I just opening this out of habit/impulse?”This strikes me as exactly the kind of response one sec is aiming for.<h2>“Defragmenting” of time</h2>The fact that the timer keeps going even when you’re not using the app/site makes you use those apps/sites differently. If you open the app and then go off to do something else, too bad, your time limit is going to be over anyway.This shifts your usage pattern of the app. It goes from something you might check semi-randomly for 5 minutes at a time, to something that you intentionally choose to access and spend dedicated time on.And if it’s not worth spending dedicated time on? Then why are you using it in the first place?<h2>Flexibility</h2>Lastly, it’s flexible. If you want to limit it so that you’re accessing the site an hour a day, set “maxvisit” to an hour and “minaway” to 12-20 hours. If you want to allow yourself to have a longer period twice a day, set “maxvisit” to 2-3 hours, and “minaway” to something like 8 hours. This is a lot more flexible than blocking sites/apps at specific times of the day. It lets you adapt your usage to whatever you need that day, and still lets you be somewhat spontaneous, but in a less-damaging way.<h1>How might this feature look like within one sec?</h1>I picture this as an app/site-specific setting that lets you define a “session length” and “gap between sessions”. The intervention would then have a “start session” button that starts the timer. Once the session timer is up, the app would be blocked until the “gap” timer runs out, either by graying it out or by presenting you with an intervention that cannot be bypassed.This would also pair really well with one sec pro’s existing features like re-interventions. Re-interventions could help enforce the session timer, kicking in when it’s over.I think this could be a really great addition to the app overall, and would likely push me over the edge towards buying a lifetime subscription.

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Add an option for "session length" enforcement (inspired by Hacker News)

Kronopath

DONT READ IF YOU DONT WANT TO ABUSE THIS BUGI’ve been loving one sec and have saved myself a lot of time off of Instagram, but I’ve discovered a bug and have been abusing it for quite a while.If you slide down the control center in the app switcher, close it, open Instagram quickly, then quickly open the control center again, you completely bypass the interruption from one sec closing the control center; you are free to scroll without interruption or anything. I was hoping there’d be a fix, but if not, I would love recommendations to fix the settings in a way to avoid this habit I’ve developed abusing this.**A video recreating the bug is below**

Fix Bug Bypassing Interruption with the Control Center

Quinn

From Customer Support perspective, I noticed over the time that several users want the Healthy Alternatives addable to all Intervention types. Up to now they are not addable to Interventions like Breathwork (Paced Breathing, Box Breathing, etc.), more Interactive ones (like Follow the Dot) or the Lengo Intervention. For example, this could be done by making the Healthy Alternatives an (optional) Extra Shield like the Intention Picker or the Re-Intervention Time Wheel, that opens before the Initial Intervention or after it. See also this post: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://feedback.one-sec.app/p/healthy-alternatives-after-box-breathing">https://feedback.one-sec.app/p/healthy-alternatives-after-box-breathing</a>

Add Healthy Alternatives to all Interventions

Lucas 

I love this app, but the manual app adding is such a pain in the butt. It’s too bad you can’t just auto-import all apps (is there a technical reason why not?) on iOSI need the following added:Freeform (built in iOS drawing app)The following games: Doodle Jump, Cut the Rope, Magic Tiles 3

Apps to add

rwajkkejsaklr;

Most of the time, I find myself stuck doom-scrolling through YouTube Shorts. However, when I watch a full YouTube video, the intervention ends up being more annoying than helpful.One way I find this issue resolvable is by detecting whether the phone’s orientation is horizontal or vertical, since Shorts are always viewed vertically.Current solution is shown below, but it has its limitations:<img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0194eb47-9a5f-7ed7-b241-d1cccbb04404.jpg" data-width="100%" data-align="left">

Intervention only triggers when phone is vertical

Henrik Klemetti (Henrik klemetti)

When I am selecting how long I want to use an app for, it would be great if the UI showed me what time it would be when I leave the app. When I am doing multiple re-interventions 10 more minutes seems meaningless to me, but if I am forced to see how time is getting away from me or how late it is I think that would help. So when I move the slider to “10 minutes”, the UI would say:“By the time you leave this app, it will be 9:46 PM”, etc

Show what time it will be when you leave the app

Moomin

I use different intervention strategies depending on the Focus Mode (e.g. blocking Instagram during Work Focus, short interventions during Do Not Disturb), but I find it too easy and quick to simply switch Focus Modes and bypass the blocks. It would be helpful to extend the concept of the Morning Countdown (but shorter, like 5–10 minutes) to account this kind of situation.

Add a time buffer after changing Full immersion

Sometimes when I choose my intention, I realize that it was the wrong one (for example “search info” when I’m really on the “toilet”. In order to change this, I need to reject it and try again, loading the intervention all over again and showing an additional block. Could you add a back button on all those pages? Mostly I need to be able to choose a different intention, but it might be nice as well to go back to healthy alternatives.

Change Intention During Intervention

Josh Nelson

OneSec is currently only available for IOS through Safari and (presumably due to the workarounds required for Apple software) it takes time to set up each blocked website.I have needed to switch my iPhone browser from Chrome to Safari, but would love for OneSec to be available on IOS Chrome so that I could access my bookmarks and history from Chrome on my laptop :)

OneSecは現在、iOS版ではSafari経由でのみ利用可能であり、（おそらくAppleのソフトウェアに対応するための回避策が必要なため）、ブロック対象のウェブサイトを1つずつ設定するのに時間がかかります。iPhoneのブラウザをChromeからSafariに切り替える必要がありましたが、OneSecがiOS版のChromeでも利用できるようになれば、ノートパソコンのChromeからブックマークや閲覧履歴にアクセスできるようになるので、とても嬉しいです :)

iOS版 OneSec Chrome アプリ

OneSec for IOS Chrome App

aurelius

Hey there have been barely any improvements from 2023-2025 in Screentime API 1. we need Mac expansion 2. we need all bugs that are highlighted to be fixedA lot of people come to apps like yours seeking for help but get disappointed of missing capabilitys.The only way to get change is to speak up more vocal about this! Speak up before wwdc 2025

Speak up on Screentime API not improving before wwdc!

Lars van Dorp

I sometimes find myself doing re-intervention after re-intervention. It would be great if users could set a daily app budget, limiting how many times an app can be opened per day. This would encourage more mindful app usage, making users think twice before opening an app to avoid wasting their limited sessions on mindless scrolling.

Daily App Budget / Daily Limit for App Opens

CallMeLucky

Love the app, it’s super annoying but I can already see the value it’s adding to my day and headspace.I quite like the LENGO integration and thought some sort of flash card for re enforcement learning would be a neat feature I would use.

Ich liebe die App – sie ist zwar super nervig, aber ich merke schon jetzt, wie sehr sie meinen Alltag bereichert und mir den Kopf frei macht.Die LENGO-Integration gefällt mir sehr gut, und ich dachte, eine Art Lernkarte zur Vertiefung des Gelernten wäre eine tolle Funktion, die ich gerne nutzen würde.

Maßgeschneiderte Intervention mit Lernkarten

Custom Flash Card intervention

peter coroneo

Like maybe a message at the end of the day that says, you clipped Instagram this many times, but after pausing you realized you only had to use it __- many times. Maybe have a leaderboard or highscore that is based off of overall percentage. idk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Some sort of reward or incentive to not clicking continue

Aaron Woods

I noticed that the “increase usage within 24 hours” for the breathing exercises applies the same time increase to every single app, and it would be nice if it was customizable for each app (the same way the breathing duration is customizable in each app’s settings on one sec) because I don’t use all apps with equal frequency, and some apps are quite important for me to access quickly, so having them be customizable would be great.

Make “increase usage within 24 hours” customizable for each app

Sally

I use onesec a lot and have a webpage with all my books. It would be really nice to choose that webpage as the intervention. I know you have specific apps already but showing a webpage of interest would be great too.

Show a specific site when intervening

oyvindbs

An option to go into a strict block after using an app for a set amount of time. When one-sec intervenes and asks me how long i want to use the app, i would like an option where i can not just ask for a re-intervention after (lets say) ten minutes, but the option to full block the app after those ten minutes.

Eine Option, die App nach einer festgelegten Nutzungsdauer vollständig zu sperren. Wenn „One-Sec“ eingreift und mich fragt, wie lange ich die App nutzen möchte, hätte ich gerne eine Option, bei der ich nicht nur nach (sagen wir) zehn Minuten um eine erneute Abfrage bitten kann, sondern auch die Möglichkeit, die App nach diesen zehn Minuten vollständig zu sperren.

Nach X Minuten sperren.

Block after X minutes.

Isabel Louise

I think it would be great that if I enter an app too often in a short period of time, that I get completely locked out for a moment. So for example if I check instagram 5 times in 5 minutes, I’d get strictly locked out for 30 minutes. Maybe the suggestion “Daily App Budget / Daily Limit for App Opens” would achieve a similar effect in an easier to understand fashion. But wanted to post the idea anyway.

短期間にアプリを頻繁に開くと、しばらくの間完全に利用できなくなる仕組みがあれば素晴らしいと思います。例えば、5分間に5回インスタグラムをチェックすると、30分間厳格に利用できなくなるといった具合です。 「1日のアプリ利用枠／1日のアプリ起動回数制限」という提案なら、より分かりやすく同じような効果が得られるかもしれません。とはいえ、とにかくこのアイデアを投稿しておきたかったのです。

所定の時間が経過してから再度入力してください

Re-enter only after a given time

Many-sun

As seen on Hacker News: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://touchgrass.now/">https://touchgrass.now/</a>Would be cool to add something like this to one sec as well! Don’t unlock the apps unless you take a photo of yourself touching grass (or dirt, depending on the season).Seems to be popular! I saw this on the chyron of a waiting room TV:<img data-width="100%" data-align="left" data-featurebase-content-key="67a2a5955e92fab9e3aa313b/post/67cdfbff5b76f92f195e140c/01957ca0-3b0d-7e53-9031-50252e8c285e/b64u-MjAyNS0wMy0wNyAyMS40OS4yNi5qcGc.jpeg" data-featurebase-content-filename="2025-03-07 21.49.26.jpg" src="https://67a2a5955e92fab9e3aa313b.featurebase-attachments.com/c/post/67cdfbff5b76f92f195e140c/01957ca0-3b0d-7e53-9031-50252e8c285e/b64u-MjAyNS0wMy0wNyAyMS40OS4yNi5qcGc.jpeg?X-Amz-Expires=3600&amp;X-Amz-Date=20260906T050000Z&amp;X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&amp;X-Amz-Credential=DO801TYC4FCVNNEKURKM%2F20260906%2Ffra1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&amp;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&amp;X-Amz-Signature=6905362ab1873ef535b6198f23ffa83563bc56bb28e58a6fe68f3e2761d336ba">

"Touch Grass" as an intervention

strident-grass

<h3>Issue</h3><ul><li>The current <a target="" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://www.lengo.io/">Lengo</a> integration is mostly manual</li><li>Words/phrases in the intervention are hard-coded or manually imported</li><li>Progress made in the intervention does not sync back to Lengo</li><li>Lengo statistics and learning progress are therefore incomplete</li><li>The intervention does not use Lengo’s spaced-repetition algorithm</li></ul><div data-type="horizontalRule"><hr></div><h3>Goal</h3><ul><li>A seamless, automatic integration with Lengo</li><li>One shared learning progress and statistics</li><li>Consistent spaced repetition across Lengo and the intervention</li></ul><div data-type="horizontalRule"><hr></div><h3>Suggested Direction</h3><ul><li>Treat Lengo as the single source of truth for:<ul><li>Vocabulary</li><li>Progress</li><li>Spaced-repetition logic</li></ul></li><li>Automatically sync:<ul><li>Words and phrases</li><li>Progress in both directions</li></ul></li></ul><div data-type="horizontalRule"><hr></div><h3>Question</h3>Are there plans to support full auto-sync, shared progress tracking, and reuse of Lengo’s spaced-repetition algorithm in the intervention?

Deeper, Bi-Directional Lengo Integration count Progress

patrick

^ intervention to set x amount of steps before opening app

Intervention idea: set x amount of steps

Wessel Endtz

Whenever I activate the manual block using the lock screen toggle, it’s always displayed with a wrong background. I sometimes get it to correctly use the dark version, but I have yet to figure out why it works some of the time. See attached screenshot. <img data-width="100%" data-align="left" data-featurebase-content-key="67a2a5955e92fab9e3aa313b/post/68e4daf0cfebf9213662f067/0199bdf6-da17-79c1-8700-2dda52b292d0/b64u-U2NyZWVuc2hvdCAyMDI1LTEwLTA3IGF0IDExLjE0LjE5LnBuZw.png" data-featurebase-content-filename="Screenshot 2025-10-07 at 11.14.19.png" src="https://67a2a5955e92fab9e3aa313b.featurebase-attachments.com/c/post/68e4daf0cfebf9213662f067/0199bdf6-da17-79c1-8700-2dda52b292d0/b64u-U2NyZWVuc2hvdCAyMDI1LTEwLTA3IGF0IDExLjE0LjE5LnBuZw.png?X-Amz-Expires=3600&amp;X-Amz-Date=20260906T050000Z&amp;X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&amp;X-Amz-Credential=DO801TYC4FCVNNEKURKM%2F20260906%2Ffra1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&amp;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&amp;X-Amz-Signature=c51fbebb002fa8861c727d2f41ca6dd272027d18a9584a8e8c8a998f27067285">

Live activity broken UI

kris

Note: My “Don’t Get Lost” Reminder notifications come at the 3 minutes interval. Sometimes, when I set a 3 minute time to use an app with one sec, right when my 3 minutes end, I get the “You need an intervention” screen AND a “Don’t Get Lost” notification at the same time, and I feel like this is a bug because you are already being taken off of the app, and the notification should not come.Let me know if you need clarification.

Don’t Get Lost Notification Coming When Not Needed

When connecting to an app the categories screen pops up. But unlike the iPhone there is no search button. This keeps me from connecting Safari as it is in the System category which is not in the list of categories. This is still in the version released about two days ago <img data-width="100%" data-align="left" alt="" data-featurebase-content-key="67a2a5955e92fab9e3aa313b/post/6a6c64e75a49391867863966/019fb768-b964-7edf-8429-78ea89cb2b8c/b64u-aW1hZ2UucG5n.png" src="https://67a2a5955e92fab9e3aa313b.featurebase-attachments.com/c/post/6a6c64e75a49391867863966/019fb768-b964-7edf-8429-78ea89cb2b8c/b64u-aW1hZ2UucG5n.png?X-Amz-Expires=3600&amp;X-Amz-Date=20260906T050000Z&amp;X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&amp;X-Amz-Credential=DO801TYC4FCVNNEKURKM%2F20260906%2Ffra1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&amp;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&amp;X-Amz-Signature=3ffbdf971ac37ac6bba35f0b8a42997fb98f5a5f51611cbbf06a21f476134863" data-featurebase-content-filename="image.png">

Error on iPad - can’t search for app

I love this app, and I feel like it would be even more compelling for me if it showed me how much time I spent on whatever app I’m trying to access over the course of that specific day. Like I would love to log onto Instagram and have it tell me I that I’ve spent 42mins on Instagram already that day during the intervention. Thanks for considering and thanks for doing what you do!

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Daily usage visible during intervention

katherine

You can only add Apps to the re-intervention feature, not websites. It would be so useful to be able to add websites to the re-intervention feature too.

再介入機能に追加できるのはアプリだけで、ウェブサイトは追加できません。再干渉機能にウェブサイトも追加できるととても便利です。

ウェブサイトへの再インタビューをお願いします！

Please Re-Interventions possible for websites!

klausklaus

Use Re-Intervention without initial intervention

frederik

A certain time (customisable) after sharing your intent and entering the app, you get a reminder of your intent. E.g. “Your initial intent was to post something, is this still true?” Could be accompanied with a breathing moment as a pause.

Reminder of intent

Simke O

I know this isn’t really a one sec issue, but since a feature page was created titled “Making one sec truly bullet-proof with iOS 26.4” and it stated y’all worked with Apple on the feature, I figured I post here and maybe y’all can work with them again.While the toggle for Apps with Screen Time Access is locked behind the Screen Time passcode in Settings &gt; Screen Time, if you go to Settings &gt; Apps &gt; one sec, you can just turn off Screen Time Restrictions which just needs your iPhone passcode/Face ID (not the Screen Time passcode). I hate that I found it but hopefully y’all can work with Apple and they can fix soon.

one sec isn’t really bullet-proof w/ iOS 26.4

CuriousDumbo

Idea:Expand the irreversible Adult Content Detox feature by integrating an optional block for online web proxy services (excluding VPNs). This aims to close one of the most accessible loopholes users might use to bypass content filters.Why:Web proxies are often the easiest workaround, especially for less tech-savvy users. Blocking them strengthens the integrity of the irreversible detox feature and helps users stay committed to their goals without easily falling back.How:Start by collecting and maintaining a list of the most popular free and paid online web proxy domains (e.g. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="http://Hide.me">Hide.me</a>, CroxyProxy, KProxy, etc.). These domains can be included in the blocklist applied during detox mode. Ideally, this list would be updated regularly — e.g. manually, via user suggestions.

Block Web Proxy/ VPN with Adult Content Detox

I’m proposing another option to the ‘don’t get lost’ notification setting, to allow a notification X minutes before the app will be blocked (aka before intervention or whatever else). This could be nice as a ‘You have X minutes left in APP, wrap things up!’

X Minutes Left Notification

Silk3724

I would love to add my individual prompts to the journal feature. So that I can also choose my own prompts as pre-configured prompts as journaling questions in the morning and evening.

Option to create personal journaling prompts

fraumilla

When adding additional websites to the Adult Content Detox, an easy bypass is simply removing the website from the list, so maybe make added websites unremovable?

Additional Websites in Adult Content Detox

MajiBoy

Although the settings description of ‘Customization Lock’ within ‘Cheat Lock’ claims to put us “through and extra-long breathing exercise to unlock one sec’s settings,” I find that the duration is fixed and very short. Right now, it is too easy to change or even disable interventions on a per-app basis from the “Overview” page. It would be nice if we were able to change the duration of the ‘Customization Lock’ or adjust other options of that intervention. To clarify: I am not talking about how to change any specific app intervention from the overview page, nor am I asking how to enable the Cheat Lock. I am asking for the option to adjust the Cheat Lock qualities, such as the duration, exercise type, etc.

Allow for adjustable intervention settings of the "Customization Lock"

sbrick00

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