Block Stake 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 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 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 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 an app you sealed and over a website you added yourself in the picker, and over nothing else. The Stake 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

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. It does not cover any Stake 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.