Block Ladbrokes on iPhone

What Fold'em covers, layer by layer

Two apps and four 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 ladbrokes.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. It did not cover ladbrokes.co.uk that day: that name answered with a real address. 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 Ladbrokes 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 Ladbrokes app is not on the guided checklist, so Fold'em does not name it for you. Search by name in Apple's picker, tick, and seal: the app shield covers the apps you picked and nothing else.

This page also covers Coral and Ladbrokes Australia, 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

Ladbrokes is on the Gamstop register, listed under LC International Limited beside Coral and the other brands that company runs. Gamstop's own pages state what that means: registering blocks you from signing up for or using an online account with any gambling company licensed in Great Britain, for a length you choose from 6 months up to 5 years, and the registration cannot be cancelled while it runs.

Ladbrokes' own safer gambling page refused every connection from this machine on 2 September 2026, so nothing about the limits inside a Ladbrokes account is claimed here.

The shape can still be stated, and it is the point. Gamstop works from a register of people and asks operators to check it. Fold'em works from one iPhone and asks nobody, so a Gamstop registration and a Fold'em seal cover different ground and neither ends the other.

Sources: Gamstop, participating companies, accessed 2 September 2026; gamstop.co.uk/about, 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 Ladbrokes 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 web shield does not cover ladbrokes.co.uk, which answered with a real address on 1 September 2026. 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.