Blindfold

Changelog

Everything new in Blindfold, newest first.

1.1.1: Block gambling apps

Turn on Block gambling apps in Everywhere and known sportsbook, casino, prediction market and sweepstakes apps won’t open. You can add any other app too. It uses Screen Time, so blocked apps stay installed and come back when you turn it off.

1.1: Block gambling sites

Blindfold Everywhere can now block gambling too. Choose Ads and trackers, Gambling, or Ads, trackers and gambling, and turn on Strict mode if you want sites to stay blocked when they can’t be checked.

On iOS 27, blocking covers the subdomains of listed sites again, so the servers behind an app are caught along with its main site.

Also new: a refreshed design, a clearer Blindfold Helper setup, and fixes for sites that broke with blocking on, including Cloudflare-protected pages and weather.com.

1.0.2: Blindfold Everywhere

Blindfold Everywhere now blocks ads and trackers system-wide, across every app, not just Safari. Turn it on once and it keeps working quietly in the background, checking requests privately on your device.

We also made the app faster to launch, lighter on memory, and gentler on your battery, with the in-page helper scripts now loading only on the sites that actually need them.

1.0: Initial release

The first version of Blindfold for Safari on iPhone and iPad.

  • Native ad, tracker, and annoyance blocking across Safari using three curated filter lists.
  • Blindfold Everywhere: optional, on-device DNS filtering that blocks ads and trackers system-wide, in every app, not just Safari.
  • On-device intelligence that learns new ads after pages load and writes precise hiding rules, entirely on your device.
  • Automatic cookie-consent rejection, and hiding of promoted posts in Reddit and YouTube feeds viewed in Safari.
  • Defense against “turn off your ad blocker” detection walls.
  • A live dashboard for ads blocked, trackers stopped, annoyances hidden, and bandwidth saved.
  • Every filter list visible, with every AI-written and custom rule editable, plus a one-tap allowlist.
  • Filter lists that update over the air, so new rules arrive without an App Store update.
  • Affiliate-link marking.
  • iCloud sync for your settings and rules, Family Sharing, and 1 month free on the yearly plan.