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How are my days counted?

Fold’em keeps one count: the days since your last bet, and only your own admission that you gambled moves it.

Updated October 2026

Nothing counts toward an end

There is no date for a count to run to. Protection has no end date, so nothing counts down to an end you chose. The clocks you can see, a Lockdown run's, a release wait's or a lapse window's, are readings of a deadline the server or the run holds, and none of them is a term. How long does protection run? is the answer to the question this page used to be asked for.

The one count that is left

What Today shows is the time since your last bet. It belongs to you rather than to the block: turning protection off, starting it again, a lapsed payment and a revoked Screen Time permission all leave it running, and the only thing that moves it is your own admission that you gambled. What is the gambling free count? works through it in full, including the goal, the milestone days and the admission sheet.

Where to read it

  1. Today, under Gambling free

    Days, hours and minutes. Tapping it opens Your goal, with the days left to your goal in large type, how many you have done, the date of your last bet and the date of your goal.

    Today: Gambling free over a count of 53 days, 14 hours and 08 minutes under an arc, three people walking a path toward a signpost reading 90 days, How are you today? with Rough, Shaky, Steady and Good, a money card reading $1,510 of $3,000, Need help right now? Open SOS, and the tabs Today, Lock, People and Settings.

    The count on Today

What this does not do

The count gates nothing, and neither does any clock you can read: what ends a wait is the deadline behind it, never the number drawn on the screen. And the count is not evidence about the world. Fold’em can see that this phone was blocked; it cannot see a second phone, a desktop, a betting shop or cash.

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