Block TAB NZ 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 TAB NZ in Apple’s picker.
What Fold’em covers, layer by layer
One site for TAB NZ, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAB NZ | If you pick it | · | · |
| tab. | · |
In Safari, and in the app
On 1 September 2026 the web shield’s resolver, dns.foldem.app, 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 for tab.co.nz 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 TAB NZ domain is on it, so that layer adds nothing here. In a browser TAB NZ 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
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. This page says nothing about any TAB NZ 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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