Block Betfred 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 app. Tap the pill on Lock, then Apps, then Add apps, and pick Betfred in Apple’s picker.
What Fold’em covers, layer by layer
One site for Betfred, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Betfred | If you pick it | · | · |
| betfred. | · |
In Safari, and in the app
On 1 September 2026 the web shield’s resolver, dns.foldem.app, answered betfred.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 betfred.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 Betfred domain is on it, so that layer adds nothing here. In a browser Betfred 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
GAMSTOP's list of participating companies names Betfred inside the entry for Petfre (Gibraltar) Limited, beside OddsKing, so the licensee behind the brand is registered with the scheme.
That scheme is Great Britain's national online self exclusion register. It costs nothing to join, one registration blocks access to accounts held with every company on the list, and the exclusion runs for a length chosen between 6 months and 5 years and cannot be called off once it has started.
Betfred's own limits and break settings are not stated here. Its site sends this machine to a host that does not resolve, so the safer gambling page could not be read on 2 September 2026.
The scheme works from a person's identity and shuts accounts. Fold’em works from the device and shuts what it will open, which is why someone can hold both at once.
Sources: gamstop.co.uk/participating-companies, accessed 2 September 2026; gamstop.co.uk/about, 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 Betfred 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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