Confirmation before actually launching some addictive apps

[vatbub]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

I have recently heard from a friend who uses iOS that there's an app that adds a confirmation dialog before launching some addictive apps (like Instagram or Twitter) to confirm that the user really wants to open this app. The idea is that users usually open these apps out of boredom and sometimes even unconsciously, making users spend lots of useless time in those apps. Introducing such a confirmation forces the user to take a conscious decision to open the app or decide to use his time productively after all.

Describe the solution you'd like

The feature is entirely controlled by the user. The user can therefore specify a list of apps where the feature shall be enabled. For apps with the feature enabled, the launcher shows a confirmation dialog whenever the user wants to open the app, asking the user whether he really wants to open the app.

If the user confirms, the app opens as usual. If he aborts or declines the confirmation, the user returns to the home screen.

In addition to that, some statistics would be nice, but optional:

• The number of times the confirmation dialog was confirmed (and thus the app was opened)
• The number of times the confirmation was aborted
• The approximate time saved by not opening those apps (average time spent in the app per use * times the confirmation dialog was declined)

Feature Request Procedure

• I have read the knowledge base article on feature requests and followed the steps mentioned

[NiagaraSupport]

Hey there, and thank you for your suggestion.
Something very similar is already planned for the future (see #2407), so I'll go ahead and close this one as a duplicate.