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Getting started

Grant Screen Time when asked. Without it, nothing can be blocked, including by this app.
Set Location to Always, not "While Using". A rule about where you are has to work while the app is closed.
Save the place you're in, then write a rule that points at it.

A rule didn't fire

Almost always one of these:

Location is set to "While Using". Settings ▸ MindFence ▸ Location ▸ Always.
Wi-Fi is off. Your position is far less precise without it, and boundaries get missed.
The fence is too small, or you didn't go far enough past it. A fence needs a little over a hundred metres, and you need to stay put for twenty seconds or so before the crossing counts.
The phone rebooted and hasn't been unlocked since. Boundary monitoring resumes at the first unlock.
Low Power Mode. It defers background work.

Arriving is noticed more reliably than leaving. That is also why a rule you can't end until you leave lets go on its own if we stop being sure where you are.

A place says "Never confirmed here"

The fence has never once contained your phone. Usually the pin is on the wrong side of a building, or the fence is too small. Open the place, move it, or make it bigger.

Pairing didn't work

Both phones need to be signed into iCloud. Invitations work once and are good for a day, so make a fresh one if in doubt. For a rule about being somewhere together, you both need a place saved under the same name. That is how the phones match, and it is why neither has to know where the other is. The symptom of a name mismatch: your friend shows as away even when you know they're there. Offering them your place from the app sidesteps the mismatch, because both phones then hold the same place.

Turning it off

Rules can be switched off or deleted, except one that's holding. That one ends when you leave. And said plainly: revoking MindFence's Screen Time permission in Settings ends all blocking in about twenty seconds. The strongest rule slows you down; it doesn't imprison you.

Leaving entirely

Unpair from your friends first, then delete the app. Unpairing removes the record your friends could see; deleting the app removes everything else it kept.