Which widgets does Fold'em have?
Updated September 2026
Three kinds: a run widget that counts how long you have been gambling free, a support widget carrying up to four people from your circle, and a small SOS pad. Between them they offer nine faces across the home screen and the lock screen. Every number on every face comes from the app's own count, read out of a file the app writes, so a widget never works one out for itself. The three lock screen faces deliberately never name the category, because a lock screen can be read without unlocking the phone.
Three kinds, nine faces
In the widget gallery Fold'em offers three rows. Gambling free is the run, and it has the most sizes: small, medium, large and all three lock screen accessories, with the large size drawn in two styles you choose between, a photograph or a flap board. Support is one medium face carrying up to four people from your circle. SOS is one small face, the pad. Six run sizes plus the run's second large style, plus one Support face and one pad, is the nine.
The run faces on the home screen name what is being counted. The three lock screen faces do not: they read HELD above the number, or "1 year held" on the inline line, and nothing on them says gambling. HELD is also true of every unit the count can reach, which is why the eyebrow does not say days: after a year the number on it is not days.
Where the numbers come from
The app writes a small file with the moment your run started and the people in your circle, and the widget reads it. It is rewritten when a term is sealed or ends, every time you open or leave the app, and whenever your circle changes. Nothing is computed inside the widget, which is what stops a home screen and the app disagreeing about the same day.
Before the first hour has passed the home faces say your run is counting and to come back soon, rather than drawing a row of zeros. With nothing armed they say Nothing armed yet and stop there.
iOS redraws a widget on a schedule rather than continuously, so a lock screen face showing minutes can sit a few minutes behind the app. The app's own screen is the one to check a number against.
Adding one, and choosing its face
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Add it the way you add any widget
Fold'em writes no instructions of its own for this, because Apple maintains them. Open Settings in the app, then Help, then Widget guide, and it opens Apple's own page on adding and editing widgets.
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Choose the large run style
The large run widget ships two designs for the same numbers, a photograph and a flap board. Both are the same kind, so the choice is made in the widget's own settings after you have placed it, not by adding a second widget.
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Choose what the pad shows
The SOS pad draws the Fold'em mark on its own, or the mark with the word SOS under it. Tapping it opens the app at the SOS hub. On the medium Support face, a tap on a person opens their call and message row inside the widget, and either of those opens the app.
What this does not do
No face says whether the block is holding. That is on purpose: the moments that refresh a widget are an arm, an end, an app launch and a circle change, and none of them fires when Screen Time is switched off or the web shield drops, so a status word on a widget would go stale on exactly the faults it claimed to report. The Shield tab in the app is where protection is reported. No widget can release, pause, shorten or extend anything, and removing one changes nothing about your block. And a widget shows nothing until the app has run at least once on this phone, because every number on it comes out of a file the app writes.
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