Block PointsBet on iPhone

What Fold'em covers, layer by layer

One app 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 pointsbet.com and pointsbet.com.au 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. It did not cover pointsbet.ca 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.

Screen Time is handed a ten site list of its own, and pointsbet.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 PointsBet 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

PointsBet calls its limits pre commitment limits. A deposit limit and a spend limit each run over a rolling 1, 7, 14 or 30 days, so the window moves with you rather than resetting on a calendar. A reduction takes effect at once and a request to raise or remove one carries a 7 day cooling off period. Take a Break shuts the site to you for 3, 7 or 30 days, after which the account reopens by itself, and a self exclusion cannot be undone at any point while it runs.

Their page is plain about the edge of all this. It states that a break or an exclusion set with PointsBet applies to PointsBet alone and not to other licensed operators, and it recommends installing software on the device to stop gambling sites being reached at all.

That last recommendation is the layer Fold'em is. Their tools end at their account and Fold'em ends at this iPhone.

Source: pointsbet.com.au/responsible-gambling, 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 PointsBet 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 pointsbet.ca, 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.