Lock your own iPhone: step-by-step guides
Almost every guide to blocking adult sites on an iPhone is written for a parent locking a child's phone. These are written for a man locking his own.
Each guide gives the exact taps, our own screenshots, and a plain list of what the setup can't do. Where we haven't tested something ourselves, the page says so.
The guides
- How to Stop Watching Porn: A Plan for Tonight and the Next 90 Days
Close the doors tonight, an urge plan for this week, and keeping going past a slip. Every step with its evidence level.
- Slipped After a Good Run? Why One Night Doesn't Send You Back to Zero
The "I blew it" spiral, what to do in the next hour, and the one thing to change.
- Is "Porn Addiction" Real? What the Diagnosis Manuals Say
What ICD-11 and DSM-5-TR say, where researchers agree and argue, and why feeling out of control matters more than a label.
- How to Block Adult Websites on iPhone (iOS 26): Every Step, With Screenshots
The built-in filter, all eight taps, with a screenshot of each screen and a plain list of what it can't do.
- “Limit Adult Websites” Not Working on iPhone? 7 Causes and the Fix for Each
A one-minute test that tells you whether the filter is off or just has a gap, then the fix for each cause.
- How to Set a Screen Time Passcode You Can't Use Against Yourself
Four ways to keep the code out of your own head, and the truth about the Forgot Passcode reset.
- How to Block Porn on X and Reddit on iPhone
Why the website filter misses apps, and the three things that do work: block the sites, remove the apps, cap the age rating.
- How to Stop Private Browsing and New App Installs on iPhone
What the filter really does to private tabs on iOS 26, and how to put the App Store behind a passcode.
Where to start
If you've set nothing up yet, start with the first guide and finish with the third. The filter takes about three minutes. The passcode is the part worth doing slowly.