Block FanDuel 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 FanDuel, FanDuel Casino and FanDuel Fantasy in Apple’s picker.
What Fold’em covers, layer by layer
Two sites for FanDuel, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FanDuel | If you pick it | · | · |
| FanDuel Casino | If you pick it | · | · |
| FanDuel Fantasy | If you pick it | · | · |
| fanduel. | · | ||
| sportsbook. | · |
In Safari, and in the app
On 1 September 2026 the web shield’s resolver, dns.foldem.app, answered fanduel.com and sportsbook.fanduel.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 fanduel.com and sportsbook.fanduel.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 fanduel.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.
Their own self exclusion tools
FanDuel keeps its responsible play tools behind the login, and the pages outside it give the names without the numbers. The menu lists a deposit threshold, player tools, a timeout, self exclusion, a reality check, a player activity statement, a limits history and parental controls.
Timeout is described as telling FanDuel how much time you need away, after which you can log in only once it has ended. Self exclusion is described as taking an indefinite amount of time off from all products. Both pages say you must be logged in to set them, so the exact lengths on offer are not published to a reader who is not signed in.
That login is the whole difference. Fold’em never signs in to your FanDuel account, so it blocks the FanDuel apps and fanduel.com on this iPhone without knowing whether a timeout is running, and it cannot request one for you.
Closing the account is called deactivating, and FanDuel's own two articles on it disagree about what that means. Both were read on 3 September 2026 as the support portal serves them to a search crawler, because a browser without its scripts is handed an empty shell. The closing article says Deactivation is the same as permanently closing your account and that To reactivate your account, you'll need to contact our Customer Support team. The reactivation article, on the same portal the same day, says Most people who deactivate their own account can reactivate it in seconds by logging in, and reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to impose a minimum deactivation period on any user's account. The closing article adds the useful one: Returning players must reactivate their original account, because a second account is not allowed. A closed FanDuel account is a paused one.
The shorter breaks are published in the same place. A timeout runs up to 365 days in most jurisdictions and your account will automatically be re-enabled when it ends. Neither article mentions the phone: the app appears only as the place to tap, so it is still on the home screen when the account is closed, and none of it reaches the handset. Fold’em holds the phone and holds no view of any of it.
Sources: FanDuel Sportsbook, responsible play, self exclusion, accessed 2 September 2026; FanDuel Sportsbook, responsible play, timeout, accessed 2 September 2026; support.fanduel.com, How to Close (Deactivate) Your FanDuel Account, read as served to a crawler, accessed 3 September 2026; support.fanduel.com, Reactivate your FanDuel account, read as served to a crawler, accessed 3 September 2026; support.fanduel.com, How to Take a Timeout on FanDuel, read as served to a crawler, accessed 3 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 FanDuel 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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