Temporary rules

The Control Center lets you quickly deny a process or allow a denied connection temporarily, for five minutes. This way, you can react right away to what you see, before you make a permanent decision:

Deny a process to stop suspicious traffic: The list shows a process that sends or receives megabytes of data, and you don’t know why. Click the process and choose Deny for 5 Minutes. This creates a temporary rule that denies all connections of the process and gives you time to find out what’s going on. If you don’t want this traffic, turn the temporary rule into a permanent rule in the Rules window.
Allow a denied connection to solve a connection problem: An app or a website doesn’t work correctly, and you find its connection in the Recently Denied list. Click the connection and choose Allow for 5 Minutes. This creates a temporary rule that allows only this connection. If it solves the problem, turn it into a permanent rule in the Rules window. If it doesn’t, click the connection again and choose Cancel Timer.

While the temporary rule is active, a badge next to the entry counts down the remaining time. A red badge means denied, and a green badge means allowed.

When the time is up, the temporary rule ends, and your other rules apply again. To end it earlier, click the entry and choose Cancel Timer.