{"id":811488,"date":"2026-10-23T14:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T14:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/811488\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T14:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T14:42:09","slug":"bricks-new-app-blocker-is-designed-for-bedtime-doomscrolling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/811488\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick\u2019s new app blocker is designed for bedtime doomscrolling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Brick, the company behind the $59 gadget that blocks you from using apps on your phone, has launched a new device that\u2019s designed to help you cut back on doomscrolling in bed. The <a href=\"https:\/\/getbrick.com\/products\/brick-night\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$129 Brick Night<\/a> introduces a location-based element: instead of requiring you to tap your phone against the device, like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/column\/717498\/brick-phone-screen-time-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OG Brick<\/a>, this version uses Bluetooth to automatically kick in when you enter your bedroom (or any other room you put it in).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The Brick Night uses two CR2477 batteries, and you can set a location zone of up to 25 feet x 25 feet. Both this and the Brick allow you to select specific apps to block instead of rendering your entire phone inaccessible, but the pitch with the Night version is that the blocking happens automatically in the background when you enter the room, and so won\u2019t interrupt or add new steps to your usual bedtime routine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Brick\u2019s night version also supports multiple users, and each can independently configure their own settings, modes, blocked app selection, time windows, and spaces. Still, the Brick Night is more than twice the price, and because it doesn\u2019t include NFC capabilities, it can\u2019t be used for both location-based and tap-based blocking \u2014 which would allow it to replace the original Brick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brick, the company behind the $59 gadget that blocks you from using apps on your phone, has launched&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[786,2306,50,227,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-811488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-gadgets","tag-mobile","tag-news","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}