Block McLuck 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 app. Tap the pill on Lock, then Apps, then Add apps, and pick McLuck in Apple’s picker.
What Fold’em covers, layer by layer
One site for McLuck, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| McLuck | If you pick it | · | · |
| mcluck. | · |
In Safari, and in the app
On 1 September 2026 the web shield’s resolver, dns.foldem.app, answered mcluck.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 for mcluck.com is a real address again, so the setting is half of what makes this true.
The list Fold’em hands to Screen Time is ten domains long and no McLuck domain is on it, so that layer adds nothing here. In a browser McLuck 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 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
McLuck runs a sweepstakes casino, so its limits are written around Gold Coin purchases rather than deposits. The controls live under Player Trust and Safety Controls in the account menu, and the page says you set them yourself without contacting support. A spend limit caps purchases over a day, a week or a month, and a session limit logs you out for the rest of the day once the time is used, resetting at midnight in your own timezone.
A time out runs from 1 day to 30 days and cannot be cancelled once it starts, though you can still log in to look at the account. Self exclusion runs from 1 month to 1 year and blocks the login outright. Lowering a limit is immediate; raising one waits 24 hours.
Fold’em has no coin to count and no McLuck account to close. It shuts the McLuck app and mcluck.com on this iPhone, where a purchase would otherwise be made.
Source: mcluck.com/player-safety, 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. This page says nothing about any McLuck 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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