Counting Sheep: Wind Down

Put your phone to bed before you do. Counting Sheep helps you step away from bedtime scrolling with a small evening ritual. Make a plan, put your phone in another room, and let Ollie, your capable border collie, keep you company as you wind down. MAKE ROOM FOR YOUR EVENING Choose your bedtime and the time you want your morning quiet to end. Build a routine around reading, stretching, preparing for tomorrow, or simply doing less. Your checklist is a gentle invitation, with optional ideas and sources to explore. GIVE SCROLLING A BEDTIME Choose the apps and categories you want Counting Sheep to shield during your session. Wind Down carries your selected-app protection through the night into your morning quiet. Screen-Free Morning has its own progress, and Offline Time offers a shorter break at other times of day. To start any of these sessions, allow Screen Time access and choose at least one app or category. Unselected apps and websites may still be available. Five-minute Brief Access and an emergency exit remain available when you need them. WIND DOWN. GROW YOUR FARM. Eligible timer progress helps Ollie search for missing sheep and grows their wool. Progress carries over when you end early; Brief Access time does not count. Tend your flock, visit The Barn and Search Journal, gather wool, and spend it on Farm decorations and Ollie's wardrobe. WIND DOWN TOGETHER Invite people you know to a private Slumber Party. Joining requires an account and acceptance of the party's sharing agreement. Choose what to share through the available visibility and consent controls. KEEP YOUR FARM WITH YOU Play with a local guest Farm, or sign in with Apple or a username or email and password. Account use includes automatic private Farm synchronization. Your detailed routine, reflection and Health history stays separate from that Farm save. OPTIONAL CONNECTIONS Pair an NFC tag as a physical cue for your phone-away ritual. Connect Apple Health for read-only sleep context, or use Apple Watch as a companion display for the phone's timer. An NFC tag, Health access and Apple Watch are not required for the core iPhone ritual. Your timer records progress, not proof of where your phone stayed, whether you slept, or whether every activity was completed. Counting Sheep is a bedtime-habit tool and does not diagnose or treat sleep conditions.