Block DraftKings on iPhone

What Fold'em covers, layer by layer

Four apps and three sites, 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 draftkings.com and pick6.draftkings.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 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.

Screen Time is handed a ten site list of its own, and draftkings.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 an app you sealed and over a website you added yourself in the picker, and over nothing else. The DraftKings app is on the guided checklist Fold'em's setup walks you through, so it is named for you: tick, seal, and the block screen is what opening it gets from then on. The other apps in the table, DraftKings Casino and DK Pick6, are not on that checklist, so search by name in Apple's picker and seal them too.

This page also covers Golden Nugget Online, part of the same brand. Its apps and its sites are rows in the table above, measured the same day and by the same three layers.

Their own self exclusion tools

DraftKings publishes its own limits, and they sit on the account rather than on the phone: they stop one login, wherever it is used, and they do not touch anything else on the device. As their responsible gaming page read on 18 March 2026, a Cool-off means you will not be allowed on the site for a length you choose, from three days to four weeks, and Self-exclusion means you can ban yourself from playing on DraftKings for one year or for five.

The same page names three limits you can set at any time. You can cap the amount you can lose in a day, a week or a month, and set that separately for sportsbook and for casino. You can cap the amount you can deposit in a day, a week or a month. You can cap the amount of time you spend on the site in a day. It also states that in Pennsylvania self exclusion cannot be done on the DraftKings site at all, and has to go to the Commonwealth's Gaming Control Board directly.

None of that is Fold'em, and Fold'em can neither start one of these nor end one early. The two stack rather than replace each other: a self exclusion closes one account for a year or five, and the layers above close the app and the address on this phone for whoever is holding it.

Source: casino.draftkings.com/responsible-gaming-on-draftkings, archived 18 March 2026, 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 DraftKings 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.