Block Betfred on iPhone

What Fold'em covers, layer by layer

One app and one site, measured on 1 September 2026 against Fold'em's guided checklist, the curated list it hands to Screen Time, and the live resolver at dns.foldem.app.

In Safari, and in the app

Every name this phone looks up goes to dns.foldem.app for as long as the web shield's DNS setting is on, and that answer reaches every app on the phone rather than Safari alone. On 1 September 2026 it 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 here is a real address again, so the setting is half of what makes this true. The Shield tab's web tile reads On while it is on.

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 this operator 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 an app you sealed and over a website you added yourself in the picker, and over nothing else. The Betfred app is not on the guided checklist, so Fold'em does not name it for you. Search by name in Apple's picker, tick, and seal: the app shield covers the apps you picked and nothing else.

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. It does not cover any Betfred domain this measurement never asked about, and it does not seal an app you never picked: an app filed outside the Games category is covered only by being on your own list. 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.