One
You choose the end before anything begins.
At least one month, with no maximum, set while you are thinking clearly. It does not move later because you want it to.
Gambling self exclusion for iPhone
The decision you made in daylight, kept through the night.
Block gambling apps and betting sites for a term you choose, held by Apple Screen Time and a person you trust.
- Enforced By Screen Time, not willpower
- Held by Someone who holds the key
- Ends On a date, not on a whim
Sportsbooks, casinos, poker, and the sites behind them.
You pick what goes on the list. Anything you add lands the moment you save it.
- Sportsbooks DraftKings, FanDuel, BetMGM, bet365, Caesars, Fanatics, and the rest you name.
- Casino and slots The apps, and the web versions that open when the app will not.
- Poker and exchanges Added by site as well as by app, so a browser is not the way around it.
- Lottery and scratch The quiet ones that do not feel like gambling until they are on the list.
Three things happen, in this order.
Two
Apple does the holding, not your willpower.
Screen Time enforces it at the operating system level. Not a VPN, and not a profile you can quietly remove at 1 AM.
Three
Someone you trust holds the key.
You name one person. Leaving early goes through them, face to face, and nothing opens for at least 72 hours after that.
Two locks, and neither one is a VPN.
No app can make gambling impossible on an iPhone, and what this one makes impossible is taking the block off quietly, because the way out runs through the person holding your key.
Apps are held by Screen Time
The same Apple system a parent uses. It sits below the apps, so an app cannot talk its way past it, and deleting Fold'em does not lift it.
Sites are held by an encrypted DNS shield
Names on your list stop resolving. No traffic is routed through us, and nothing you browse is sent anywhere. It is a resolver, not a tunnel.
You can switch the sites shield off
It lives in iOS Settings, and Apple gives that switch to you, not to us. Flipping it sends nobody an email. The apps lock is different: withdraw Screen Time and your keyholder hears about it. We would rather say so than pretend otherwise.
The way out is a road, not a button.
You can always ask. What you cannot do is answer for yourself, and neither can anyone at a distance.
- You ask The request goes to your keyholder. Nothing unlocks yet, and your list does not change.
- They can say no From anywhere, in one tap. It is the easy answer on purpose. You can ask again after two days.
- Yes happens in person They scan the code on their Wallet pass, standing with you. No page, pass or email can stand in for that.
- Then 72 hours The wait starts after the yes, not before it. Nobody can shorten it, including us.
- It opens Only then. With no keyholder named, the same road takes fourteen days on your own.
Who can do what, including us.
| You | Your keyholder | Fold'em | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start a term | |||
| Add a site or an app | |||
| Take one off the list | When the term ends | ||
| Keep the lock on | |||
| Unlock early, remotely | |||
| Unlock early, in person | Together, both | Together, both | |
| Shorten the 72 hour wait | |||
| See your money figure | |||
| See which apps or sites |
Your keyholder sees your first name, whether protection is on, how far through the term you are, the end date, and a count of blocked attempts. That is the whole list. What a keyholder sees.
What you keep
The money is the part you can count.
$0
An example. Someone who set their own figure at $100 a week, 210 days into a term. Yours is whatever you say it is.
Fold'em works out what a term is worth to you from a figure you set yourself, and it counts up while the lock holds. That number is worked out on your phone and never leaves it. Not to us, and not to your keyholder.
People who tried everything else.
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I have deleted every other blocker I have tried, usually inside a week. This is the first one where deleting it did not actually fix anything for me.
Ben K. -
Knowing my brother gets told before I have even put the phone down is what stops me at 2am.
Hanna T. -
No lectures and no guilt trip. It just quietly does not let me, and somehow that turned out to be the part that worked.
Sara V. -
Day 96. I still test it every couple of weeks and the sites still will not load. One day at a time.
Tom E.
Honest by design
Fold'em is a commitment device, not a cage. No blocker is absolute, and anyone telling you otherwise is overselling. Breaking this one has a cost worth keeping: someone you trust finds out. That is the point, and it was your point first.