888JILI Screen Time — Cap Your Hours and Sites on iPhone and Android

Screen time tools turn a good intention into a limit your phone enforces. Apple and Google both build one into the phone, and both can count the hours you spend and cap them before a session runs long. This page sets them up for play in your browser, and the habit sits beside the 888JILI browser steps for phones and the responsible gaming page. This site is for players 21+.

Pick the number before you pick the setting

A limit works best when you decide it while you are calm. Choose a daily total and a session length, then write both down. As an example only: two sessions of 45 minutes is 90 minutes a day, so the cap on your phone is 90 minutes.

Turn on Screen Time on iPhone

Apple’s page for setting up Screen Time for yourself says it shows how much time you spend on your devices, including which apps and websites and for how long. Menu names change between iOS versions, so read Apple’s page for your version if yours differs.

1. Open the Settings app.
2. Tap Screen Time.
3. Tap Screen Time Schedule, Time Allowances or Manage Screen Time.
4. Tap Turn On App & Website Activity.

To see the result later, tap Screen Time, then Daily Average, then Week or Day.

Set a Time Allowance on iPhone

Apple’s Time Allowances cap how long you use apps by category, such as Entertainment, Games and Social Media. Apple adds that if an app has an associated website it declares, the allowance applies to both.

1. Open the Settings app and tap Screen Time.
2. Tap Time Allowances.
3. Under Time Allowances, tap a category such as Games.
4. Drag the slider left or right, or tap the plus or minus, to set the time.
5. Tap Manage Categories to create a new category if you need one.

The category allowance is the control this step list covers. For a cap on one single website on iPhone, read Apple’s Screen Time pages for your iOS version.

Add a Screen Time Schedule on iPhone

A schedule decides when apps are available, so play can sit in an evening window and not in the middle of work.

1. Open the Settings app, tap Screen Time, then tap Screen Time Schedule.
2. Turn on Schedule.
3. Tap Add Schedule, then tap the days of the week.
4. Tap the Time Window and change its start or stop time.
5. Tap a Time Allowance category to choose what is available in that window.

Limit hours and sites on Android with Digital Wellbeing

Google’s help says that on some phones you can see how often you pick up the phone and how long you use each app, and use that to set app timers. Steps vary by device.

1. Open the Settings app and tap Digital Wellbeing.
2. Tap App timers, then tap Set timer next to the app you want to limit.
3. Choose how much time you can spend and tap OK.
4. For one website, tap the chart, then Chrome, and tap Show sites, then Show.
5. Next to the website, tap Set site timer, choose a time limit and tap OK.

Google says that when the time runs out, the app closes and its icon dims, and that timers reset at midnight.

Lock the limit so you keep it

A limit you can lift in one tap is a suggestion. Both phones let you protect it.

1. On iPhone, tap Settings, Screen Time, Manage Screen Time, then Lock Screen Time Settings, and enter a four-digit passcode twice.
2. On Android, tap Settings, Digital Wellbeing, App limits, then App limits PIN, and turn on PIN for app time limits.
3. Enter a unique 4-digit PIN, confirm it, and do not share it.
4. Ask someone you trust to hold the code if you want the limit to hold on a bad night.

Google adds that to block someone else’s access to an app, you set the PIN and give the app a time limit of zero.

Where limits stop

A timer counts time on the phone. It does not look at your balance, and it does not know whether you are winning. Pair it with the habits on the responsible gaming page. Then run this short list.

1. On a phone you share, set the passcode before you hand it over.
2. If you also use a private tab to hide history, read what private browsing in Safari leaves visible.
3. Keep the limit on when you play over public wifi too.