The full answer
There is no date for protection to reach, so protection never switches off because a day arrived. A request to end protection that was granted is an offer sitting on a phone whose shields are all still applied, and the apps open when you end protection. What comes off without you is a lapsed subscription, which opens a 72 hour window and then releases the block, and a Lockdown run, which ends at the time it was set for and takes off only what it added.
There is no date to reach
Protection has no end date, nothing counts toward one, and nothing in the product marks it complete.
It is worth being blunt about who decides. Your phone never decides that your protection ends. It applies what the server says and re applies it after a restart, a reinstall or a new phone, and no timer on it can end your protection.
The two things that do end it
Protection you asked to end, then ended. You ask, and either your keyholder agrees or, with nobody holding your key, the wait runs on its own. When the wait is over the server marks the request ready and stops there. Nothing is loosened at that moment: every app you sealed is still sealed and every site is still blocked, and they stay that way until you end protection yourself. Leave it and it closes after seven days, and your protection carries on as though you had never asked.
A subscription that lapsed. This is the one end that arrives without you. When the entitlement stops, the server opens a 72 hour window and then releases the block, because the service you were paying for has stopped rather than because you chose anything or a clock ran out. It is still a server decision: the phone does not drop a shield because a receipt expired, and if someone holds your key, they are told.
The waits your phone runs itself
There are exactly three releases your own phone runs, and naming them is the honest way to say the rule holds everywhere else. Switching off the Games layer starts a 72 hour wait counted on the phone's own clock, and when it runs out that category opens. A Lockdown run ends at the time it was set for: the phone takes off the layers the run added and goes back to the protection you already had, never below it. And with no keyholder, you can end a Lockdown run sooner once a 3 hour wait on the phone is over, which takes off the same layers and nothing more. All three work that way because the server never owned those switches. None of them ends your protection, and none touches anything else: not the apps you picked, not the sites, not the deletion delay and not a request to end protection.
What this does not do
None of this makes the block permanent. Asking to end protection is in the app and is meant to be findable, and what stands in front of it is a wait rather than a wall. Equally, your protection never opens by itself on a schedule you set in advance, because there is no such schedule to set: a Lockdown schedule only ever adds layers for a while and then takes those same layers off. Deleting the app does not end protection, because protection is not stored in the app, and signing back in brings it back exactly as it was rather than weaker.
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