Comment by Cider9986

The truth is that none of these apps can really make your distracting phone into a smart dumb phone because of Apple's limitations on their power. And yet, Apple's own tool, screentime, also can be easily bypassed.

The solution is Mobile device management (MDM) using Apple Configurator. All you need is a Mac and your iPhone and you can make it impossible to install distracting apps, create un-bypassable limits, and disable Safari. It's all very customizable and is the only solution that worked for me.

One sec is the second best to this in my opinion, but would be greatly improved if you could make it un-bypassable.

Something really rubs me the wrong way about apps that are supposed to make you healthier like One sec or meditation apps that are filled with trackers or ads.

That's another win for one sec as they only collect a bit of telemetry, no insane tracking.

There's also a way to do this on Android if someone is curious I can link my explanation of it.