Block Winamax 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 Winamax in Apple’s picker.
What Fold’em covers, layer by layer
One site for Winamax, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winamax | If you pick it | · | · |
| winamax. | · |
In Safari, and in the app
On 1 September 2026 the web shield’s resolver, dns.foldem.app, answered winamax.fr 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 winamax.fr 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 Winamax domain is on it, so that layer adds nothing here. In a browser Winamax 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
Winamax splits its moderators into the ones French law requires and the ones it adds. The required set is a total deposit amount per week, cumulative stakes per week across poker and sports betting, and a playing time limit measured on time actually spent at the table. The set it adds covers deposits by day or by month, a maximum per single deposit, a number of deposits per day, week or month, a loss limit that counts winnings against it, and cumulative stakes by day or month. Raising any of them waits 48 hours. Self exclusion runs for a length you choose between 24 hours and 12 months, cannot be shortened once it starts, and the account reopens by itself when it ends.
Winamax states that its exclusion is effective on Winamax alone. Fold’em is aimed at the handset instead of the account, so it stays in force across the gap between one site and the next.
Source: winamax.fr, Protection des joueurs, 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 Winamax 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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