FokusHow do I unblock one website for five minutes on Mac?
In an active Fokus session, open Overview, expand the group and click Unblock beside reddit.com. Choose 5 min. Reddit opens for the lookup, X and Instagram stay blocked, and Fokus restores the Reddit rule when time runs out.
Fokus · · Tested with Fokus 0.4.0 for Mac
Start a session with three sites
In Groups, enable a group containing reddit.com, x.com and instagram.com. Turn on blocking and approve the local Mac helper. If you are outside working hours, choose Start session and allow at least ten minutes for this example.
Give Reddit five minutes
Expand the group in Overview. Click the lock beside reddit.com and choose 5 min. The count falls from three blocked sites to two. Reddit now shows the time its block will return.
Finish the lookup
Let the timer expire, or select the time beside Reddit and choose Block now to finish early. A site exception ends by the end of the session.
Which sites opened during the lookup?
We ran the packaged 0.4.0 Mac helper for ten minutes with a disposable hosts file. Both reddit.com and its old.reddit.com alias left the file during the exception. X and Instagram stayed on the list throughout. At expiry, both Reddit entries returned.
| Stage | reddit.com | x.com | instagram.com |
|---|---|---|---|
| Session starts | Blocked | Blocked | Blocked |
| Five-minute exception | Open | Blocked | Blocked |
| Timer ends | Blocked | Blocked | Blocked |
The helper changes how your Mac resolves hostnames. A cached page or an existing connection may stay open after a rule changes. Close and reopen the tab to check a fresh connection. Browsers that resolve names through a remote proxy can bypass hosts rules.
Try the five-minute example