Block distractions. Don't monitor employees.
Automatically create distraction-free shifts.
Your rota manages when your team works. We make sure their phones know they're working too.
For iPhone (iOS 16.4 or later), built on Apple Screen Time.
How it works
Three steps, then it runs itself
Set a Work Policy
Pick the app categories that should pause during shifts, such as social media, games and streaming, and how breaks relax them.
Employees connect their iPhone
They install Work Mode, enter your company code and approve Screen Time access. Their app choices stay on their phone.
Shifts do the rest
Work Mode switches on when a scheduled shift starts, eases off for breaks and switches off when the shift ends. Nobody has to remember.
Product
Everything a shift needs, nothing it doesn't
Policies, break rules, scheduling and live status, designed for teams on their feet.
Work Policies
Choose restricted categories once. Assign a policy to the whole organisation, a location, a team or one person; the most specific wins.
Break Rules that match your floor
How long, how many, how soon after the shift starts and what relaxes during a break. Breaks end on time without a manager watching the clock.
Scheduling and CSV import
Add shifts, repeat them, or upload the rota you already have. Every row is checked before anything is saved.
Live status, not surveillance
See who is in Work Mode, on a break or needs attention. Never what anyone does on their phone.
Locations and teams
Sites with their own time zones and teams within them, so policies and rotas land on the right people at once.
Manager overrides with a paper trail
End Work Mode early or exempt someone for a while, with a reason and a duration, recorded in the audit log.
Rota integrations (coming soon)
Planday, Deputy, 7shifts, When I Work, Rotaready and Homebase, following either the schedule or clock-in events.
Built on Apple Screen Time
Enforcement happens on the phone with Apple's own frameworks. No MDM, no company-owned device required.
Privacy
Operational status only. Never surveillance.
The same statements drive the dashboard, the employee app and the mobile API, so what we promise is what the software can do.
What managers can see
Operational status only.
- Whether the employee has joined and their device is connectedThe employee's setup stage (not invited, invited, joined, setup incomplete, connected or deactivated) and whether the Work Mode app is active on their phone.
- Whether Screen Time authorisation is grantedOnly the state of the authorisation: not determined, approved, denied or revoked. Managers see that permission needs attention, never anything the permission gives access to.
- Whether apps have been selected, and how manyWhether the employee has chosen what to shield and how many categories, apps and websites that choice contains. Never which ones: the choice is held on the phone as opaque Apple tokens that neither the employer nor Work Mode's servers can read.
- Whether Work Mode is active right nowThe on-device Work Mode state: off shift, starting soon, working, on break, shift ending, manager override, permission error or sync error. It confirms whether shields are applied, not what the employee is doing on the phone.
What managers can never see
Block distractions. Don't monitor employees.
- Messages and callsNo iMessage, SMS, WhatsApp, email or call content or history. The Screen Time frameworks Work Mode uses do not expose messaging or calls at all.
- Photos, videos, camera and filesThe app does not request access to Photos, the camera, the microphone or files, so it cannot read any media.
- Browsing history and searchesNo websites visited, search terms or other web activity. Websites an employee chooses to shield are opaque tokens on the phone: counted, never sent.
- App usage, screen time or which apps were openedWork Mode registers time-based schedules only and receives no usage reports. When a shielded app is opened, the shield and its buttons are handled on the phone; nothing about which app, how often or for how long is sent to the server.
Read the full privacy statementWhat employees are told
Work Mode blocks distracting apps during your shifts. Your employer sees operational status only: whether the app is set up and working, when you take breaks, when your phone last synced, and basics such as the app version and your timezone. They cannot see your messages, photos, browsing history, notifications, what you do on your phone, or which apps you chose to block. Your app choices stay on this device.
See it on your own rota
A 20-minute walkthrough with your shifts, your policies and your questions.
Block distractions. Don't monitor employees.