Block Betfair 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 Betfair Exchange and Betfair Sportsbook in Apple’s picker.
What Fold’em covers, layer by layer
One site for Betfair, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Betfair Exchange | If you pick it | · | · |
| Betfair Sportsbook | If you pick it | · | · |
| betfair. | · |
In Safari, and in the app
On 1 September 2026 the web shield’s resolver, dns.foldem.app, answered betfair.com with 0.0.0.0, the address for nowhere, so that page never loads in Safari, in Chrome, in Firefox or inside any other app on this phone. Switch the DNS setting off and every answer for betfair.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 Betfair domain is on it, so that layer adds nothing here. In a browser Betfair 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
As their responsible gambling page read on 25 April 2024, Betfair offered a break that blocked the account for 24 hours, 48 hours, 7 days or 30 days, could not be cancelled once it had started, and lifted itself when the chosen time ran out. A personal exclusion sat above it: the account stayed shut for at least six months and was not reopened during that time under any circumstances, which the page set against an ordinary account closure.
The same page offered deposit limits by day, week or month and loss limits by day, week, month or year, set at registration or afterwards in the account's player protection section. It advised contacting every gambling company you hold an account with, and installing software that blocks gambling sites. Fold’em is that second piece of advice, built for a phone instead of a computer. Their exclusion holds one account shut; this holds the app and the address shut on the device.
Source: betfair.com/aboutUs/Responsible.Gambling, Finnish language page archived 25 April 2024, 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 Betfair 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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