Block Virgin Bet 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 Virgin Bet in Apple’s picker.
What Fold’em covers, layer by layer
One site for Virgin Bet, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virgin Bet | If you pick it | · | · |
| virginbet. | · |
In Safari, and in the app
On 1 September 2026 the web shield’s resolver, dns.foldem.app, answered virginbet.com 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 virginbet.com 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 Virgin Bet domain is on it, so that layer adds nothing here. In a browser Virgin Bet 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
Virgin Bet Limited is named on GAMSTOP's own list of participating companies, so a registration there reaches a Virgin Bet account. GAMSTOP describes itself as blocking you from signing up for or using accounts with online gambling companies licensed in Great Britain: the shortest block you can choose is six months, the longest is five years, and a block can be set to renew itself. Virgin Bet's own responsible gaming page returned no readable text to us on 2 September 2026, so nothing here describes the limits set inside the account.
Fold’em keeps no list of companies and registers you with nobody. It shuts the app and the address on one iPhone, which is a different lock from the one a national register turns.
Sources: gamstop.co.uk/participating-companies, accessed 2 September 2026; gamstop.co.uk/take-a-break, 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 Virgin Bet 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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