What Screen Time's app limit actually is
Set a daily limit on Facebook or Reddit, and the app goes gray with a lock screen once you hit it. That's the entire mechanism. The screen that appears has a button on it: Ignore Limit for one more minute, or for the rest of the day. Tap it, and the limit is gone until tomorrow.
That button isn't a bug. Apple's own documentation states plainly that Screen Time limits can be ignored once reached by default.[1] The restriction exists, and so does the way around it, built into the same screen.
Why this article is still about the full block
Facebook and Reddit now get the same kind of named-feature toggles as everywhere else in this library: Facebook hides Reels and Stories individually, and Reddit switches to a Following feed sorted by New and hides ads. Those toggles solve the recommendation-surface problem the same way hiding Shorts or Explore does elsewhere.
What they don't solve is the case where you want the site gone entirely, not trimmed down. That's still a real option on both platforms, block the whole site instead of the pieces of it, and it's the one this article is actually about: the gap between deciding to block a site and Screen Time's own Ignore Limit button undoing that decision in one tap.
What actually holds a block
The difference between Screen Time's block and DoomOff's block isn't strictness, it's where the decision happens. Screen Time asks you, in the moment, whether to keep the limit, which is the exact moment willpower is weakest. A site-level block through DoomOff's built-in browser has no Ignore Limit button on the same screen. Getting past it means turning the block off deliberately, in Settings, which is a different, slower decision than a single tap on a lock screen.
What this looks like in DoomOff
Facebook and Reddit both get the same option: block the site entirely, replacing it with a plain screen instead of the app. There's a break-glass unlock built in for the rare case you actually need in, fifteen minutes, once a day, so the block isn't absolute. It's just not one tap away, which turns out to be most of the difference.