Block ESPN BET 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 espnbet.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.

Screen Time is handed a ten site list of its own, and espnbet.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 ESPN BET 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.

Their own self exclusion tools

ESPN BET builds its controls into the account. A daily time limit logs you out for the rest of the day once it is reached, and deposit, spend and loss limits each run over a day, a week or a month. Lowering any of those takes effect at once, and a limit can only be raised once per period.

A cool off runs from 72 hours to one year and bars every bet and every deposit until it ends. Disable Casino is a separate switch that shuts the Hollywood Casino inside the ESPN BET app, from three days up to permanently, while sports wagering carries on. Self exclusion is longer again and its lengths vary by state.

Each of those closes one account and leaves the phone open. Fold'em does the opposite, so a cool off and a Fold'em seal can run at once and neither ends the other.

Source: ESPN BET Help Center, How To Play Responsibly, 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 ESPN BET 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.