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Does protection end on a date?

No.

Updated October 2026

The full answer

Protection has no end date, so there is no instant to reach, nothing to extend and nothing that completes. It runs until it is ended, and there are two ways that happens: protection you asked to end and then ended, or a subscription that lapsed, which opens a 72 hour window and then releases the block.

There is no end instant

Protection has no scheduled end, nothing counts toward one, and there is no screen for adding time to a date that does not exist. How long does protection run? is the page this question now belongs to.

What replaced it is not a longer date but no date at all. Protection holds until it is ended, and ending it is an act rather than an appointment.

The two ends

Protection you asked to end, then ended. You ask, your keyholder decides or, with nobody holding your key, the wait runs on its own, and at the end of it the request is ready. Nothing opens until you end protection, and if you never do the request closes after seven days.

A subscription that lapsed. When the entitlement stops the server opens a 72 hour window and then releases the block. It is the one end that arrives without you.

A lapse: protection needs the subscription and the lock together Two inputs feed one gate. The top input is the subscription, the bottom is the lock, and protection is on only while both hold. The subscription lapses, so its input goes out. A 72 hour lapse window counts down on the server, and when it ends the release follows: the shields come off. The people in your circle who use the app are told, unless they turned that notice off, that your protection ends in 72 hours unless it is restored; a keyholder who joined by email gets a letter. A LAPSE Subscription Subscription renewal off The lock still holding AND Protection Protection needs both 72 h Lapse window on the server Released the shields come off Protection ending It ends in 72 hours unless it is restored.
Protection needs the subscription and the lock together. When the subscription lapses, a 72 hour window counts down on the server and then the shields are released. Anyone in your circle sees Protection at risk for you, then Protection ended.

What this does not do

Nothing on your phone marks protection finished, and no phone timer ends it. Your gambling free count is untouched by either end: it runs from your last bet, and only your own admission moves it.

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