If no break appears when you manually start one, or as scheduled, there are a few possibilities. Try each of these until the issue is resolved.
- Firstly, look in the sidebar; it should indicate why a break didn’t occur.
- Go to the Break Info page, expand the Overview and ask Apple Intelligence why the break didn't occur; it may be able to help.
- Go to the Advanced page and choose Time Out instead of Separate Helper for the break.
- Restart your Mac. That often fixes wackiness.
- If that doesn’t help, make sure you don’t have more than one copy of Time Out.
- If still no luck, there may be a permissions issue.
To fix a permissions issue, try this:
Make sure Time Out is in your Applications folder.
Paste the following command into Terminal:
xattr -d -r -s com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Time\ Out.app
If this gives a permissions error (e.g. "xattr: [Errno 13] Permission denied"), try it again with sudo before the command, to elevate the privileges. You'll need to enter your Administrator password. This command is safe to use with sudo:
sudo xattr -d -r -s com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Time\ Out.app