Every app on your child's phone sits in one of three buckets. You decide which bucket each app belongs to from the parent app, and the change syncs to the kid phone within seconds.

Open the apps list, tap an app, and move it between Always Available, Entertainment Limit, and Always Blocked

The three buckets

Always Available — the default. The app runs freely and is not counted against any limit.
Entertainment Limit — the app stays usable but its time counts against the daily screen-time pool, with an optional per-app cap.
Always Blocked — the app cannot be opened at all.

Open the apps list

Parent app > tap your child's profile.
Tap Apps.
Use the tabs (All, Entertainment Limit, Always Available, Always Blocked) to find the app.

Move an app between buckets

Tap any app row and choose its new bucket. For example, move a game to Entertainment Limit to fold it into the daily allowance, or to Always Blocked to lock it completely.

What your child sees

When a blocked app is opened, the kid phone shows a full-screen block notice (BlockedAppActivity) and the app closes immediately. There is no way around it from the child's side.

A note on Premium

Moving an app to Always Blocked is a Premium feature. Unblocking is always free — you can move any app back to Always Available at any time, even without a subscription. Pricing for Premium is shown in the app.

Tip: don't see a newly installed app yet? Give the kid phone a moment to report it, then pull to refresh the list.

Next, pair this with Setting screen time and schedules to control total daily time, and Web filtering setup to block sites inside the browser.