Ankr Focus

Ankr Focus is a voluntary classroom focus app for students using their personal iPhones. It helps students reduce distractions during class without requiring a student account or monitoring their activity. Students explicitly grant Screen Time access and privately choose the individual apps they need to keep available, such as learning or communication tools. When they scan their classroom’s room code, Ankr Focus uses Apple’s Family Controls and Managed Settings frameworks to shield the other apps. Students can scan the same room code again to end focus early, and every session automatically releases no later than 180 minutes. Ankr Focus solves the challenge of choosing attention in a classroom full of digital distractions. It provides a simple, student-led ritual for focus while preserving privacy: Ankr Focus does not collect selected apps, app usage, browsing history, messages,…