Toggle for iPhone

Toggle (toggle.social) is an iPhone app that opens Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, X, Threads, Reddit, LinkedIn, Facebook and Snapchat inside one app, with the parts built to keep you scrolling switched off: Reels, Shorts, For You feeds, Explore, suggested posts, like counts and more, chosen app by app. Messages, posting, profiles, search and notifications keep working. It can also block the real apps with Apple's Screen Time, so the clean version is the one you open. It is made by one person, Josh Wolk, and sold on the App Store as "Toggle: Block Reels".

What Toggle looks like

Toggle opens on a launcher with a tile for each app. Tap one and that service opens as its own mobile website inside Toggle, signed in with your own account, restyled to look and feel like an app: a native tab bar and header, and comments in a native sheet where supported. A Toggle switch sits at the bottom of every app. Tap it to go back to the launcher; hold it for a moment to open the options sheet for that app.

What Toggle hides in each app

Switches apply per app, at once. Three kinds exist. "Always off" switches are locked: on from the first load, and showable for five minutes at a time. "Off by default" switches are on when you start and can be turned off. "Your choice" switches are off when you start.

A few notes on the table. YouTube opens on your Subscriptions feed. TikTok and Threads open on Following. LinkedIn opens on Messaging, and its Jobs, network and notifications pages stay. Facebook opens on the most recent (chronological) feed. Snapchat in Toggle is Snapchat for Web, which is chats and calls only, so Spotlight, Stories and the Map never show. Each app has its own page on this site with the full map of what goes and what stays: Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, X, Threads, Reddit, LinkedIn, Facebook and Snapchat.

What keeps working

Direct messages work on every app. Posting works on every app. Profiles, search, Stories (unless hidden) and notifications stay. Comments open in a native sheet on Instagram, Threads, LinkedIn and YouTube; TikTok's comments stay in its own drawer, restyled as a sheet; Facebook's comments open in the page; X's reply opens its composer. YouTube videos play in their own player with a mini player.

Why the short-video feeds are locked

Reels, Shorts, For You and the other recommendation feeds are the parts most built to keep you scrolling, so Toggle treats them differently. Each is on from the first load and can't be turned off for good. From the options sheet (hold the Toggle switch) or from Settings, a locked switch can be shown for five minutes at a time; it turns itself back on at the deadline. Onboarding explains this before you start.

Onboarding also asks how much time you want back each day and shows what that adds up to in years. Settings keeps it under "Set a goal". Nothing greys out or locks when you pass it.

Notifications

Notifications are optional and set per app: all notifications, messages only (direct messages, replies, comments, mentions), or off. They arrive through the sites' own web push, passed through Toggle's relay to Apple's push service, and are encrypted end to end to your iPhone, so the relay can't read them. LinkedIn has no web push, so Toggle checks LinkedIn's notification count in the background and notifies on a rise. If a real app is installed and not blocked, Toggle holds back that app's notifications so you don't get two. The setup is on the notifications help page.

Blocking the real apps

Toggle can block the real apps with Apple's Screen Time (Family Controls). In Settings, choose apps from Social and Entertainment; a blocked app then shows a shield with "Open in Toggle". "Unblock for 5 minutes" drops the shields and brings them back after five minutes, and turning blocking off asks first and offers that five-minute break instead. It is self-control, not parental control: the person who set it up can turn it off. Apple gives Toggle only opaque tokens for the chosen apps, so Toggle can't see which apps they are or how you use them. Steps are on Block the real apps.

Home Screen icons, the share sheet and a browser

Three optional extras. Settings → Add to Home Screen puts an icon on your Home Screen for each app, through a configuration profile made on the iPhone, so Instagram's icon opens Instagram in Toggle. Links shared to Toggle from the share sheet open in the right app. And Settings → Browser turns on a plain built-in browser.

Two things happen on their own. Many ad and tracking requests are blocked inside Toggle. On a slow connection Toggle loads smaller images and fewer videos ahead.

Price

Toggle is free to download, paid after the 7-day trial: $6.99 a week or $99 a year in the US, checked on October 24, 2026. Local prices vary. Apple handles the billing, and you cancel in iPhone Settings or in Toggle's Settings. The pricing page has the details. The Chrome and Safari extensions are free.

What Toggle is not

• Not for Android. Toggle runs on iPhone with iOS 17 or later, and on iPad in iPhone compatibility mode. There is no Android app and no Mac app; the Mac gets the Chrome extension now and the Safari extension once Apple lists it.
• Not free after the trial. The iPhone app can't be used without a subscription once the 7 days are up.
• Not parental control. Blocking is for the person holding the phone, who can turn it off.
• Not a change to the real apps. Toggle replaces them with its own version of each site; the real apps are untouched unless you choose to block them.
• Not the full native app. Toggle uses each service's mobile website (TikTok and Snapchat use the desktop site), so a few app-only features may be missing.
• Not permanent. Sites change, and a switch can stop working until Toggle updates.

Privacy, briefly

Toggle has no accounts. You sign in to each service directly and your logins stay on your iPhone. Toggle doesn't sell data, doesn't track you across other companies' apps or sites and uses no advertising identifier. Anonymous usage analytics can be turned off in Settings → Share usage data. The longer version, including what the platforms themselves see, is on Is Toggle safe?, and the mechanics are on How Toggle works.