One tap to lock. The tag to unlock.

The Anchor is a second list, locked in one tap from anywhere and released only by a physical NFC tag you paired. Leave the tag at home and the phone stays anchored until you are back.

It is separate from your rules and it does not use the delay. Anchoring only ever takes things away, so it needs no waiting; the walk back to the tag is the whole of the friction.

Using it

1. Choose apps. The first time, the anchor offers what you already block, every one checked. Keep what it should hold, or go on to the picker for anything else. After that, Change apps opens the picker with the list filled in.
2. Pair a tag. Hold the phone to any NTAG sticker, or the tag that came with another blocking product if you already own one. Furlough reads its hardware identifier and writes nothing to it. Up to three can be paired, so a key can live at each place you do — name each one for its place.
3. Anchor. Everything on the list is shielded immediately. No tag is needed to lock and no delay applies.
4. Unanchor. Opens the reader. Only a tag you paired lifts the anchor, and any of them does, at once. This is the one unblock in Furlough, and it exists only here.

Which tag to buy, what you may already own, and where to keep it: NFC tags.

While anchored

• Nothing can loosen. The list and the tags cannot be changed until the anchor is off, so no key can be cut from under the lock. Pair every tag you want before you anchor.
• Rules still stand. An app can be anchored and have windows too. With the anchor off it falls back to its rule, or to nothing if it has none.
• Forget tag unpairs one after a confirmation, and only while the anchor is off. Anchoring is refused once the last one is gone, so there is always a way back.

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