Support

Write to support@ahonui.app. A real person reads it, usually within two business days.

Reporting a bug? Include your iPhone model, your iOS version, and what you did just before it went wrong. If it involves a shield, say which protocol it was gating. That is almost always enough to reproduce it.

Common questions

Can I get past a shield if I really need to?

Yes, and how depends on one setting. Strict mode is on when you start, and a shield in strict mode offers no way through: you turn it off in Settings, under Enforcement. With strict mode off, every shield carries an “Open anyway” button that costs nothing and takes nothing away; each pass is simply recorded, so you can see the pattern later. Either way you can withdraw Screen Time access in iOS Settings, and every shield lifts at once. A shield is never a lock. It is friction you can see and undo, not a cage.

Ahonui cannot see my workouts or sleep.

Those come from Apple Health. Open the iOS Settings app, go to Health, then Data Access & Devices, then Ahonui, and confirm the categories are on. Health permissions are granted per category, so it is common to have water on and sleep off without noticing.

Shields are not appearing at all.

Screen Time has to be turned on for the iPhone itself before any app can use it. Check iOS Settings, then Screen Time. After that, confirm Ahonui still has Screen Time access in its own settings and that at least one app is selected for the protocol.

A shield stayed up after I met the protocol.

Enforcement runs on the phone and settles on its own, but iOS controls when a backgrounded app is allowed to wake. Opening Ahonui reconciles immediately. If it persists after opening the app, that is a bug worth an email.

Does any of this work without a connection?

Shields, yes. They are decided on the device from your day's facts and your rules, with no network and no sign-in required, so enforcement never stops working when the signal does. Logging is not offline yet. A meal or a fast logged with no connection will tell you it failed rather than saving quietly and catching up later. Water is the exception, because it is written to Apple Health first and picked up from there.

I cannot find a food, or the numbers look wrong.

Tap the meal and edit it. You can search again, change the serving size, or enter a food by hand with your own numbers. Whatever you save is what counts toward the day.

How do I delete my account?

In the app: Settings, then Delete account. It removes your meals and photos, fasts, water, weigh-ins, workouts, sleep, override history, goals and sign-in. It cannot be undone. Entries written into Apple Health stay in Health, where you can remove them yourself.

I got a new phone. Is my data there?

Sign in with the same account and your history and goals come back. Your shield selections do not travel between devices, because iOS keeps app selections local to the device by design, so pick them again on the new phone.

Which iPhones does it run on?

iPhone running iOS 26.5 or later. Screen Time must be enabled on the device for shields to work.

Privacy requests

For access, correction, deletion or any other data request, write to privacy@ahonui.app. Details are in the privacy policy.