Block Stake 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 Stake in Apple’s picker.
What Fold’em covers, layer by layer
Three sites for Stake, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stake | If you pick it | · | · |
| stake. | · | ||
| stake. | · | ||
| stake. | · |
In Safari, and in the app
On 1 September 2026 the web shield’s resolver, dns.foldem.app, answered stake.us, stake.com and stake.bet 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. Switch the DNS setting off and every answer for stake.us, stake.com and stake.bet is a real address again, so the setting is half of what makes this true.
Screen Time is handed a ten site list of its own, and stake.us 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 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
Stake keeps these under Stake Smart inside the account. A Break In Play suspends the account for 1 day, 2 days, 1 week or 1 month, and the account reopens on its own once the period ends. Self Exclusion has a single setting, indefinite, with a minimum of six months from the day it is applied; after those six months the account can be considered for reactivation, but only through a formal return to play review that starts with an email to support. Once an exclusion takes effect no further activity on the account is possible at all. Casino exclusion, poker exclusion, gambling limits, deposit limits and a page on help organisations and gambling blocks each have their own article beside it.
Fold’em belongs in that last category. It holds the app and the sites shut on one iPhone, and it touches no Stake account and no Stake balance.
Sources: help.stake.com, Self Exclusion, accessed 2 September 2026; help.stake.com, Break In Play, accessed 2 September 2026; help.stake.com, Stake Smart, 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 Stake 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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