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Last updated 18 August 2026

Write to us

support@enfoq.co — a person reads every message, in English or Spanish. We aim to reply within two business days.

It helps enormously if you say which device and OS version you are on, which version of ENFOQ you are running (Settings → About), and what you expected to happen.

Protection

The pause is not appearing

Work through these in order — the first one is the answer nine times out of ten.

  1. Check the permission is still granted. On iPhone: Settings → Screen Time, and confirm ENFOQ still appears there. On Android: Settings → Accessibility → ENFOQ, and confirm the service is on. Android switches accessibility services off after a system update or a long period of disuse more often than people expect.
  2. Check protection is switched on in ENFOQ, not just permitted. Granting the permission and turning protection on are two separate things, and ENFOQ deliberately does not treat one as the other.
  3. Check you have chosen at least one application to protect, in Protected apps.
  4. Check today's schedule. If you set protection to weekdays only, nothing will happen on a Saturday.
  5. Check you are not inside a "Continue anyway" window. Choosing to continue gives you a short grace period on that application before the pause returns.

ENFOQ says protection is unavailable on my iPhone

Screen Time does not exist on the iOS Simulator, and Apple's Family Controls framework is unavailable on some managed or supervised devices. ENFOQ reports this as unavailable rather than as denied, because the two mean different things and only one of them is something you can fix.

Why does ENFOQ need such a powerful permission?

Because it is the only mechanism either platform offers for noticing that a chosen application has come to the front. ENFOQ uses it for exactly that and nothing else: on Android the service is declared so the system never delivers screen content to it, and on iPhone your selection is an opaque token ENFOQ cannot even resolve for itself. The Privacy Policy sets out precisely what that means.

Does ENFOQ know which apps I protect?

On iPhone, no — Apple keeps the selection opaque. On Android the list is stored only on your own device; our servers receive the number of applications you protect and never their names.

Reminders

My reminders are not arriving

Reminders are off until you switch them on, and ENFOQ asks for notification permission at that moment. If you declined it, turn notifications on for ENFOQ in your device settings and then switch the reminder off and on again so it is rescheduled.

ENFOQ uses inexact reminders on purpose, so a reminder may arrive a few minutes after the time you set. That is the right trade for a focus reminder and it keeps ENFOQ out of a battery-draining alarm permission it does not need.

Account

I did not receive the confirmation or password-reset email

Check the spam folder first. If it still has not arrived after a few minutes, request it again from the app. Note that a password-reset link must be opened on the same device that requested it — this is a security property of how the link is issued, and a link forwarded to another phone or opened on a computer will not sign you in.

Signing in with Apple or Google created a second account

Accounts are identified by email address. If you first signed up with an email and password and later used Apple's Hide My Email, Apple gave us a different, relayed address — so it is genuinely a different account. Write to us and we will help you consolidate them.

My focus history is missing on a new device

Sign in with the same account and give it a moment to sync. History recorded on a device is never overwritten by the server, so nothing is lost by signing in; if a day still looks wrong after syncing, tell us which day and we will look.

Purchases

I paid but ENFOQ Focus is not unlocked

Use Restore purchases on the subscription screen, and make sure you are signed in to ENFOQ with the same account and to the store with the same Apple Account or Google account you paid with. If ENFOQ cannot reach the network it keeps your last known status rather than treating you as unsubscribed. If it still does not appear, write to us with the date of purchase.

How do I cancel?

On iPhone: Settings → your name → Subscriptions → ENFOQ. On Android: Play Store → Payments and subscriptions → Subscriptions → ENFOQ. Cancelling stops the next renewal and you keep access until the period you paid for ends. Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription.

Refunds

Refunds are issued by Apple and Google under their own policies — we cannot issue one for a store purchase. Write to us anyway if something went wrong; we will point you to the right form and fix anything that was our error.

What is the Founding Lifetime offer?

A one-time purchase, limited to the first hundred customers, that gives permanent access with no renewal. The limit is enforced on our servers. If a payment happens to complete moments after the hundredth place is taken, the purchase is honoured in full — see the Terms.

Privacy and data

Privacy Policy — what is collected, what never leaves your device, and how long anything is kept.

Deleting your account — how to do it and what it removes.