Block BetRivers on iPhone

What Fold'em covers, layer by layer

Two apps 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 betrivers.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 BetRivers 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 BetRivers Sportsbook and BetRivers Casino apps are not on the guided checklist, so Fold'em does not name them 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

BetRivers publishes its responsible gaming policy through Rivers Casino, and that policy keeps its own account tools apart from the state register. On the account you can set deposit limits, spending limits and time limits, and you can suspend your own play for a designated period of at least 72 hours, which the policy names a Cool-Off Period.

Separate from the account sits the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board self exclusion program, joined for one year, five years or lifetime. That one bars internet gambling anywhere in the Commonwealth rather than at BetRivers alone, and the policy states the election is irreversible and cannot be ended early. Coming off the list afterwards means booking an appointment on (717) 346-8300 and handing in a removal form in person.

Fold'em is neither the account tool nor the register. A cool off period decides what one account will accept; the block here decides what this phone will open.

Source: riverscasino.com/philadelphia/online-responsible-gaming-policy, 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 BetRivers 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.