Block BetMGM 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 BetMGM, BetMGM Casino and BetMGM Poker in Apple’s picker.
What Fold’em covers, layer by layer
Four sites, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BetMGM | If you pick it | · | · |
| BetMGM Casino | If you pick it | · | · |
| BetMGM Poker | If you pick it | · | · |
| Borgata Casino | If you pick it | · | · |
| bwin | If you pick it | · | · |
| betmgm. | · | ||
| casino. | · | ||
| borgataonline. | · | ||
| bwin. | · |
In Safari, and in the app
On 1 September 2026 the web shield’s resolver, dns.foldem.app, answered betmgm.com and casino.betmgm.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 betmgm.com and casino.betmgm.com is a real address again, so the setting is half of what makes this true.
Screen Time is handed a ten site list of its own, and betmgm.com is on it. That is a different layer with a different picture: it reaches Safari and no other browser, and what Safari puts on the screen is Apple's own restricted site page rather than Fold’em’s block screen.
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.
This page also covers Borgata Online and bwin, part of the same brand. Their apps and their sites are rows in the table above, measured the same day and by the same three layers.
Their own self exclusion tools
BetMGM's own controls act on a BetMGM account, which is not the phone it is opened on. Its responsible gambling guide says you can set personal limits on both deposits and spending, and that either can be scoped to a day, a week or a month. Asking to lower one of those limits can be done at any time. Asking to raise one takes effect only after a wait, which the page gives as one day for a daily limit, seven days for a weekly limit and 30 days for a monthly one.
The same page says you can take a timeout for any period between three and 180 days, and it prints the national problem gambling helpline as 1-800-522-4700. Fold’em sets none of that, and cannot start a timeout or cut one short. The two stack: a timeout locks one login for up to 180 days, while the layers here decide what this handset opens at all.
Source: sports.betmgm.com/en/blog/responsible-gambling-guide, 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 BetMGM 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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