Opal: Screen Time Control

New in 4.9 • More reliable blocking, including Focus filters and allow-only rules • Improved some screens for users in Japanese and Chinese • More performance work, plus fixes and polish across the app New in 4.8 Speed and performance • An across-the-board speed pass: faster cold launch, smoother Home and Stats scrolling, and broad work to cut lag and battery use Blocking reliability • Optimised Time Limits to be more reliable • Saving a Rule no longer fails for small time periods • Fixed a rare case where, just after you reached a time limit, you could briefly see the "recovery" screen instead of the normal block screen • Starting a timer while an emergency pass is active now explains what will happen Fixes and polish • Improvements to home insight cards (more on the way!) • Fixed an issue that could cause the gemstone to go missing on the Live Activity • Fixed the editing sheet getting partly hidden while renaming a Session What's next, in priority order • A stunning home screen — a better score (including screen time), gems, and recommendations • Keep hardening background blocking so every Rule applies on time, every time, without opening Opal • Making time limits clearer when you reach one, so the unblock option is never misleading • Clearer setup so it's obvious what Opal does, what a Rule is, and how unblocking works After this, we're excited to build much more — Family and School modes, Autofocus for intelligent, timely recommendations and interventions, more incredible timers, and more. We read everything you send us, and it shaped this list directly. Thank you.