Support

Contact Us

Email support@getbonnet.app. A person reads every message, usually replying within a few days.

If you're reporting something going wrong, it helps to include your iPhone model, your iOS version, and roughly what time of night it happened.

Requirements

Bonnet runs on iPhone with iOS 16.1 or later. It locks apps through Apple's Screen Time framework, so there is no Android version, and no iPad or Mac version.

My apps aren't being shielded

Bonnet needs Screen Time permission to shield anything. If you declined it during setup, nothing will lock. iOS has no per-app switch for this in its own Settings, so the place to grant it is inside Bonnet: Settings → Screen Time Access, or the Grant Screen Time access button on the locked-apps screen. If tapping it brings up no prompt at all, read the next section.

Also check that you've actually chosen apps to shield. Bonnet shields only the apps you pick — it never picks them for you.

Nothing is being blocked, and you declined the Screen Time prompt

Screen Time is the one permission Bonnet cannot work without. Without it there is no Protocol and nothing will be shielded, however the rest of the app looks.

First, reopen Bonnet and try again. If you dismissed our own screen with "Not now", iOS never saw the request and the prompt comes straight back.

If the prompt doesn't come back — which is what we see when iOS itself was the one that refused — there is no switch for it anywhere in Settings. Not under Screen Time, not under Privacy & Security, not on Bonnet's own page in Settings. That is not something we left out; iOS does not expose the control once the answer has been given.

What works from there is deleting Bonnet and installing it again from the App Store. A fresh install asks for permission the way it did the first time. You will set up again from scratch — your phrase, your apps, your hours — which takes a couple of minutes.

One thing can block the delete: while a night is running, Bonnet tells iOS to refuse app deletion, and iOS answers "Uninstall prohibited". That is current behaviour, not a bug. It lifts at your wake hour and during any re-entry break — say your phrase to earn a break, or wait for the morning, and the delete goes through.

Only the apps you chose are affected

Phone, Messages, Maps and everything else you didn't select keep working normally all night. Bonnet never shields your whole device, and emergency calling is never restricted. Notifications still arrive too — iOS gives no app the power to silence another.

The one thing that is phone-wide is the deletion lock: while a night runs, no app can be deleted, Bonnet included. iOS offers no narrower form of that restriction. It lifts at your wake hour and during any re-entry break.

Getting back into an app at night

During the Protocol, opening a shielded app sends you to Bonnet to say your phrase aloud. Once it's accepted, your apps open for a set number of minutes.

Each break that night is shorter than the last: 10 minutes, then 8, 6, 4, and 2. After that every break is 2 minutes. It doesn't shrink to nothing, and it doesn't refuse you — but a spoken ceremony for two minutes of scrolling is a poor trade, which is the entire point.

The count starts fresh each night.

The app doesn't hear me

Speech recognition needs microphone access. Check Settings → Bonnet → Microphone and Speech Recognition.

A quiet room helps more than a loud voice. If it keeps failing, email us with the phrase you chose — some phrases are simply harder to recognise, and we'd like to know which.

You are not stuck either way. If the microphone or speech recognition isn't available, Bonnet switches you to typing the phrase instead, the same number of times. Pasting it is blocked, which is the point.

Setting up the red tint

The red tint uses an iOS accessibility setting. In Settings → Accessibility → Display & Text Size → Color Filters, turn on Color Filters and choose Color Tint, then drag Intensity and Hue toward red.

Bonnet walks you through this during setup and can't change the setting on your behalf — the Color Filters APIs are read-only and there is no permission to ask for. To have the red come and go on its own, Bonnet also walks you through building two Shortcuts automations, once, from the exact times it gives you. Skip that and Wind-Down still runs; it just runs without the red.

Changing your apps, phrase, or hours

All of it lives in Bonnet's own Settings, and all of it is meant to be changed while you're rested rather than at 2am. There's no picker at unlock time by design.

While a night is already running, the app picker is frozen until your wake hour, and a change to your hours is saved and dated for the following night rather than tonight. Bonnet tells you on screen which night an edit lands on.

Turning it off or deleting the app

You can turn Wind-Down off in Bonnet's Settings. If tonight's night is already running, that takes effect from the following night — it does not end tonight. What ends tonight is your wake hour, or a re-entry break.

Deleting the app removes its shields with it — if any shield ever seems stuck afterwards, it clears in Settings → Screen Time.

There is no account to delete and no copy of your data anywhere else. Bonnet has no server: your phrase, your hours, your night history and your voice notes are on your phone only, and deleting the app deletes all of them. If you did sign in with Apple or Google, Sign Out on Bonnet's Account screen removes the stored identifier from the device.

Privacy

How we handle your data is described in our Privacy Policy.