JILICC How to Block Gambling Sites on iPhone and Android

Knowing how to block gambling sites turns a late-night urge into a closed door. Apple and Google both document website controls, and you can pair them with exclusion from PAGCOR’s list. This page follows the steps as their support pages give them, read on 2 October 2026, and sits next to the wider gambling disorder help page.

How to block gambling sites: the five steps

1. Choose who manages the settings. Ask a partner, relative or friend you trust to manage the restrictions and keep the passcode.
2. Set the Apple filter on iPhone.
3. Set the Google filter in Family Link.
4. Add the sites you want blocked by name.
5. Add a router or DNS filter at home.

Do the steps when you are calm. A filter you set during an urge is easy to undo during the next one.

Step 1: the passcode holder

Both vendors write their steps for a parent managing a child’s device: Apple through Family, Google through the Family Link app. They share one idea, which is that the person who manages the settings holds the passcode. Where someone you trust agrees to take that role for you, the same screens give you a barrier you cannot remove alone.

Steps 2 and 4: Apple Screen Time on iPhone

Apple’s support page gives these steps for limiting adult websites.

1. Open the Settings app, tap Family, then tap the name.
2. Tap Apps & Websites. If asked, enter your Screen Time passcode.
3. Tap Restrictions, then tap Filtering under Websites.
4. Choose a browsing setting: Limit Adult Websites or Ask to Browse. To use Ask to Browse, set it to Approved Websites Only.

Apple describes the first option as a filter for adult websites, so the stronger choice for gambling is Approved Websites Only, which allows just the sites you list.

Steps 3 and 4: Google Family Link

Google’s Family Link page gives these steps for Chrome and the web.

1. Open the Family Link app.
2. Select the person.
3. Tap Controls, then Google Chrome and Web.
4. Choose a filter: Allow all sites, Try to block explicit sites, or Only allow approved sites.
5. To block sites by name, open Manage sites and tap Approved sites and Blocked sites.

Google says no filter is perfect, so the blocked list and the approved-only option are the ones to rely on for betting sites.

Step 5: router or DNS filtering

A router or DNS filter covers every device on your home network. The steps depend on the maker, so read your router maker’s or DNS provider’s own support page and follow its filtering steps as written.

1. Find the filtering or parental-control page on your router maker’s support site.
2. Follow its steps exactly as the maker writes them.
3. Ask the person managing your settings to hold the router password.

After you block: the next layers

Blocking removes the quickest path, not the urge. When the urge comes, the page on what tilt means and how to cool down gives a five-minute routine. For licensed venues and platforms in the Philippines, the NDRP exclusion list is the matching barrier at the casino end.