Block TAB NZ 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 tab.co.nz 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 TAB NZ 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 TAB NZ 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

The TAB NZ betting site would not open from this machine, outside New Zealand, on 2 September 2026, so the account screens could not be read here. Its own App Store listing states that TAB is committed to safer gambling and names deposit limits, time outs and self exclusion as the tools for staying in control. On its corporate site TAB NZ publishes a harm minimisation page instead: a fund of one million dollars committed to research into gambling harm, facial recognition technology funded across all its standalone venues, and a share of betting profits retained under the Racing Industry Act 2020 for harm prevention.

None of that reaches a phone. Fold'em is only the phone part: it shuts the app and the address on this handset, and it can neither set nor lift a TAB NZ limit.

Sources: the TAB app listing on the New Zealand App Store, accessed 2 September 2026; tabnz.org/social-responsibility, 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 TAB NZ 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.