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Samsung: Set App Timers for Individual Apps

If one app on your phone keeps eating more of your day than planned, Samsung's App Timer can shut it down automatically once the daily budget runs out. The app closes itself and stays locked until midnight, then resets. Apps inside Secure Folder or dual-app clones are not affected by this limit at all.

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Set App Timers auf Samsung

App Timers sit inside Samsung's Digital Wellbeing tools and work per app, not per device. Once the daily allowance you set is used up, the app closes itself and stays greyed out until the clock passes midnight, when the counter resets.

This is different from Focus mode or a full screen-time schedule: only the apps you pick individually get a timer, everything else on the phone stays usable as normal. It fits well when one specific app, a game, a social feed, or a video app, eats more time than intended, but it will not help if the real issue is overall phone usage spread across many apps.

To set it up: Tap on SettingsTap on Digital Wellbeing and parental controlsTap on App timersTap on TimerSet the Timer and tap Done.

One limitation worth knowing before you rely on this: apps inside Secure Folder and dual-app clones are not affected by the timer, since the system treats them as separate copies. If you need to restrict those too, manage them separately or move them out of Secure Folder first.

Frequently asked questions

The app closes as soon as the set duration is reached, and its icon turns greyed out on the home screen. You can still tap it briefly, but it closes again within seconds until the timer resets at midnight.

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