Block Spreadex on iPhone

What Fold'em covers, layer by layer

One app and one site, 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 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 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 Spreadex 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 Spreadex 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.

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. It does not cover any Spreadex 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 resolver's list is compiled from public gambling lists that change, so 1 September 2026 is the bound on every answer on this page.