How to add a custom website to Escape's block list
Escape blocks known adult sites out of the box, but the sites that pull you in are not always adult ones. A social feed at midnight, a news site you doomscroll, a shopping app you lose an hour to. You can add any of those to Escape's block list yourself. Here is how.
Adding a custom block
On the Home tab, tap the option to block a site. Type the address, the domain on its own is enough, and confirm. The block takes effect in Safari right away, and you manage the list in the same place, so you can lift a block just as easily when you no longer need it. Adding your own sites is part of the paid upgrade, on top of the free adult-site blocking.
What to block besides adult sites
Think about where your evenings actually go. A social app that eats hours, a subreddit you spiral in, a news site, a shopping habit. The point is the same as the adult blocking. You put a small gap between the impulse and the site, and the impulse usually passes before you cross it. It is not about willpower in the moment, it is about not needing willpower in the moment.
It follows you across devices
If you also use Escape on a Mac, your custom blocks sync through your own iCloud, so a site you block on your phone is blocked on your computer too. You set it once. Nothing about that list leaves your own iCloud, so the sites you choose to block stay between you and your devices.
If it blocks something you did not mean to
Blocks are easy to undo, so if you add one and change your mind, just remove it from the list. And if a site you need is getting blocked and you are not sure why, the guide on what to do when Escape blocks a site you need sorts out whether it is even Escape doing it.
Escape blocks porn in Safari for free, extends to every browser with Deep Block, and adds a 90-second urge ritual, practice games that retrain how you meet an urge, and 27 short courses on identity and the long arc of recovery. No account, no personal tracking.
More on this topic in Blocking porn on iPhone and iPad, or go deeper with the You grew up on this course.