Block 888 with Fold’em
- Get Fold’em and finish setup. Setup asks you to turn on site blocking and to check your phone for gambling apps, and you can do either later in the Lock tab.
- Turn on site blocking. If you skipped it in setup, tap the pill on Lock, then Sites, then Set up, and Fold’em walks you through the four taps in Settings. While it is on, the Sites page counts the gambling sites blocked in every browser and app.
- Add the apps. Tap the pill on Lock, then Apps, then Add apps, and pick 888sport, 888casino and 888poker in Apple’s picker.
What Fold’em covers, layer by layer
Three sites for 888, measured on 1 September 2026 against the list Fold’em hands to Screen Time and the live resolver at dns.foldem.app.
| App or site | Blocked as an appAs an app | Safari, through Screen TimeSafari | The web shieldWeb shield |
|---|---|---|---|
| 888sport | If you pick it | · | · |
| 888casino | If you pick it | · | · |
| 888poker | If you pick it | · | · |
| 888sport. | · | ||
| 888casino. | · | ||
| 888poker. | · |
In Safari, and in the app
On 1 September 2026 the web shield’s resolver, dns.foldem.app, answered 888sport.com, 888casino.com and 888poker.com with 0.0.0.0, the address for nowhere, so those pages never load in Safari, in Chrome, in Firefox or inside any other app on this phone. Switch the DNS setting off and every answer for 888sport.com, 888casino.com and 888poker.com is a real address again, so the setting is half of what makes this true.
The list Fold’em hands to Screen Time is ten domains long and no 888 domain is on it, so that layer adds nothing here. In a browser 888 is covered by the web shield above, and by nothing else.
Fold’em’s own block screen is a third thing and it is neither of the first two: it lands over the apps you chose, over a website you added in Apple’s picker and over the Games category if you turned Games on, and a Lockdown run you start can close every app except Phone and the ones you keep.
Their own self exclusion tools
888 sets deposit limits through the cashier or through its Member Support team on live chat, and a limit set on one of its sites covers that account alone unless you ask for it across all of them. A Take a Break suspends an account for one day, two days, seven days, fourteen days, one month or six weeks, and it too applies to the one brand you asked about.
Self exclusion is offered from six months upward, is irrevocable once running, and the page warns the request itself can take up to 72 hours to apply. The same page states that if you have installed one of its apps and accepted push notifications, self exclusion will not stop those notifications reaching you, and that the only way to prevent them is to change the settings on the device itself. That names the boundary in the operator's own words. Fold’em works on the side of it they say they cannot reach.
Source: 888.com/responsible-gaming, accessed 2 September 2026.
What this does not do
Fold’em runs on this iPhone and nowhere else: it does not reach a second phone, a laptop, a shop or cash, and it cannot stop an account being opened. This page says nothing about any 888 domain it did not measure. The resolver's list is compiled from public gambling lists that change, so 1 September 2026 is the bound on every answer on this page.
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