Allow a website

Any blocker doing real work will occasionally stop a script a site depends on. A checkout that will not complete, a video that will not start, a login that hangs: these are the usual signs. The allowlist is the fix, and it is narrower than turning blocking off.

Adding a site

1. Open Blue Guard and go to Settings.
2. Under Exceptions, tap Allowed sites.
3. Under Allow a site, type the site, such as example.com, and tap Add.

You can paste a full address if that is what you have to hand. Blue Guard takes the host out of it, so https://example.com/checkout?step=2 is stored as example.com.

An entry covers the site and everything under it, so example.com also covers shop.example.com and www.example.com. Adding shop.example.com covers that subdomain and anything under it, but not the rest of example.com.

What an allowed site changes

The entry becomes an exception rule in the list Safari holds. When a page on that site loads, the exception tells Safari to ignore the blocking rules that came before it, so nothing on the page is blocked or hidden.

The same entry is published to app-wide blocking, where it is checked before the block list. A lookup for an allowed domain is forwarded rather than refused.

So an allowed site is allowed everywhere, in Safari and across apps, until you remove it.

Removing a site

Open Settings, then Exceptions, then Allowed sites, and either swipe the entry to delete it or tap Edit and remove it there. Blocking resumes on that site at the next page load.

Report the site as well

An entry fixes your device. It does not fix the rule that broke the site, and everyone else still hits it.

Sending the address to the support page gets the rule itself corrected, and corrections ship with the next update.