Porn blocker for dads: one setup for your phone and your kids' devices
If you are a dad trying to quit porn, you have two jobs, and they tend to get mixed up. Your kids' devices need Apple's parental controls. Your own phone needs something that holds on your worst night, when the kids are asleep and nobody is watching. Here is how to do both in one evening.
Your phone: how Escape works for you
Escape is built for an adult blocking his own phone. The Safari blocker is free and covers 40,000+ adult sites on your iPhone, iPad and Mac. Deep Block, part of Premium, extends it to every browser and to private tabs. Strict Mode adds a wait of 30, 60 or 120 minutes before protection can be turned off, and the Late-Night window locks the apps where it starts from 10pm to 6am, when the house is quiet and the hours are hardest for a lot of dads.
Escape needs no account and sends no reports. There is no dashboard, no email, nothing with your name on it.
Your kids' devices: Apple's tools, free
For a young child's iPhone or iPad, use the parental settings built into the device. Set the device up under Family Sharing, turn on Screen Time's limit on adult websites, and lock it with a passcode your child does not know. The Family Sharing walkthrough covers the steps, and our page for parents covers the rest.
The shared family iPad
Shared devices are where the two jobs collide. If the iPad really belongs to your child, set it up as theirs, with Screen Time. If it is your iPad and the kids borrow it, Escape's free Safari blocker covers it too, and blocking porn on iPad walks through the rest.
The man your kids see
Willpower runs out. A reason lasts longer. For a lot of fathers, the reason is the version of them their kids will remember. The man your kids see is a seven-day course for fathers and future fathers on legacy and what you want to model. You can read it free on this site.
A setup for tonight
- Kids' devices first. Screen Time, the adult-website limit, and a passcode only you know.
- Your phone next. Turn on Escape's Safari blocker, then Deep Block for every browser.
- Add the wait. Strict Mode at 60 minutes.
- Lock the late hours with the Late-Night window, 10pm to 6am.
Then stop tinkering. A quiet setup you forget about beats a perfect one you keep adjusting.
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 28 short courses on identity and the long arc of recovery. No account, no personal tracking.
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