Block TAB 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 in Apple’s picker.
What Fold’em covers, layer by layer
One site for TAB, 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 | 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.com.au 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.com.au 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 domain is on it, so that layer adds nothing here. In a browser TAB 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
TAB sets its account controls from the Responsible Gambling section of My Account, in the app or on the site. A Deposit Limit runs over 1, 7, 14 or 28 days, and a decrease applies at once while an increase waits seven days. A Spend Limit runs over 1, 7 or 28 days. Take A Break suspends the account for 1, 2, 3, 7, 14, 30, 90 or 180 days, and the account unlocks by itself at the next login. A Debit Card Limit is set by calling 131 802. TAB Support carries the online and venue self exclusion, and the page's footer names BetStop, the national register that covers Australian online wagering services at once.
Every one of those sits on the TAB account. Fold’em holds the app and the address on the handset, so a break taken at TAB and protection in Fold’em run on separate clocks.
Source: safergambling.tab.com.au/tab-tools, TAB Tools, 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 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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