Block Spreadex 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 Spreadex in Apple’s picker.
What Fold’em covers, layer by layer
One site for Spreadex, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spreadex | If you pick it | · | · |
| spreadex. | · |
In Safari, and in the app
On 1 September 2026 the web shield’s resolver, dns.foldem.app, answered spreadex.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 spreadex.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 Spreadex domain is on it, so that layer adds nothing here. In a browser Spreadex 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
Spreadex keeps its fixed odds controls under a Safer Gambling tab inside My Account. A timeout there stops the fixed odds and virtual sports services for a length you choose, from one day up to six weeks. Self exclusion starts at a minimum of six months, extends in further periods of at least six months to a total of five years, and then stands for a minimum of seven years until you confirm you want to resume, after which a phone call and 24 hours of cooling off come first. They also take the request on 01727 895000 or by email, and the page names GAMSTOP as the free service that covers British licensed online fixed odds companies. Gross and net deposit limits run daily, weekly or monthly.
That whole set is bound to the Spreadex account. Fold’em is bound to the handset, so the two run side by side and neither one can start or end the other.
Source: spreadex.com/sports/terms-agreements/safer-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. This page says nothing about any Spreadex 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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