Beyond Alarm on iPhone

Beyond Alarm on iPhone does the two things an iPhone alarm doesn't. It makes you get out of bed with a mission, and it keeps the apps you'd scroll shut afterwards. It rings through Apple's AlarmKit, blocks through Screen Time, and gives you Strict mode, a block with no stop button, free with one short ad.

What it does

How it works

Alarms that are hard to dismiss

Beyond Alarm schedules its alarms with AlarmKit, so they ring the way an iPhone alarm does: through silent mode, a Focus or Do Not Disturb, and on the lock screen. It re-registers its alarms after a restart, a force quit or an update, with nothing to switch on.

When an alarm with a mission rings:

1. Slide to stop on the lock screen. On an iPhone that doesn't end it. It opens Beyond Alarm's own ring screen, and the sound carries on while you unlock.
2. Tap Start mission. Do your push-ups for the front camera, scan a barcode, photograph a place or solve the maths.
3. Slid it away without opening the app? The full alarm comes back shortly, and only finishing the mission stops it for good.
4. Finish the mission and the alarm stops.

Blocking through Screen Time

Phone Block and Morning Lockout use Apple's Screen Time, the same system behind iOS's own app limits. You give Beyond Alarm Screen Time access once. After that, Pick apps opens Apple's picker, where you choose individual apps or whole categories. Blocked apps show Apple's shield until the time is up.

• Phone Block: 5 minutes to 8 hours, Regular mode or Strict mode, with saved block lists. While it runs you can Add Time or More Apps, but never shorten it.
• Strict mode: no stop button until the timer ends, and no app can be deleted while it runs.
• Morning Lockout: the apps you pick stay shut for a set time, starting the moment you finish your alarm.

Beyond Alarm

Beyond Alarm does this part for you: the alarm will not switch off until you have actually moved, and the apps you pick stay locked afterwards.

What's Android only

Some features depend on things iOS doesn't allow any app to do, so they're on Android only: locking the whole phone, Wake-up Check, and prevent power-off (iOS doesn't let an app close the power menu). The reliability screen is also shorter on iPhone. It checks the Alarms permission, notifications and Screen Time access, because iOS handles battery and background settings itself.

When to use it

• You sleep through iPhone alarms, or turn them off without waking up.
• Your morning starts in Instagram or TikTok, and you want it to start in the kitchen instead.
• You want a phone block you can't cancel without paying for one.

Set it up

1. Install Beyond Alarm from the App Store on an iPhone running iOS 26.1 or later.
2. On the Alarm tab, tap +, set a time and add a wake-up mission. Tap Save and allow Alarms when iOS asks.
3. Tap Morning lockout on the same screen to pick the apps that stay shut after you're up. Allow Screen Time access when asked.
4. For a block any time of day, open Phone Block, tap Block now, pick your apps and a length, and choose Regular mode or Strict mode.
5. Check Settings → Alarm reliability to confirm everything is allowed.

Related

• Free Strict mode
• Phone Block
• Push-up alarm
• Morning Lockout
• The best app blockers for iPhone
• iPhone app time limits