BLOCK PRIZEPICKS.
Untilt blocks PrizePicks on your iPhone with Apple's Screen Time technology — app and site stop loading while a wall is up. Here's the part almost nobody tells you: because PrizePicks operates as daily fantasy in most states, casino and sportsbook self-exclusion programs often don't apply to it at all. The device wall doesn't care about the legal category.
What PrizePicks' own tools do
PrizePicks offers deposit limits and self-exclusion within its own responsible gaming settings.
But understand the boundary: state self-exclusion lists you may have joined for sportsbooks or casinos frequently do not extend to DFS pick'em operators. Excluding yourself from every sportsbook in your state can leave PrizePicks completely untouched.
Account tools close the account. Not the phone.
This is the gap that catches people after they've done everything right: accounts closed, state list joined — and the pick'em app still opens, still takes deposits, still feels like the same action because it is the same action wearing a different legal category.
Untilt doesn't parse legal categories. PrizePicks' domains are in the default blocklist next to the sportsbooks, so the wall treats a parlay and a pick'em slip as the same thing: blocked.
| Screen Time | Delete the app | PrizePicks account tools | Untilt wall | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blocks the app | Limit only | Until reinstall | No | Yes, while up |
| Blocks the website | Partially | No | No | Yes, while up |
| You hold the override | Your passcode | Reinstall | Locked for the term | Not mid-wall |
| Covers other books too | Per-app setup | No | No | Every covered book at once |
| Requires an account | No | No | Yes | No |
Three ways to block PrizePicks on iPhone
1 · DIY Screen Time. Free and built in: set an app limit or block the website under Settings → Screen Time. The honest part: you know your own passcode, "Ignore Limit" is one tap, and web workarounds are endless. It's a speed bump you own the keys to. Full walkthrough in why Screen Time alone isn't enough.
2 · Delete the app + restrict downloads. Deleting PrizePicks helps for a night — until a two-minute reinstall. Pairing it with Screen Time's purchase restrictions is stronger, but the website still loads, and the restriction shares that same passcode problem.
3 · A timed, maintained wall (Untilt). Untilt uses the same Apple Screen Time technology — without handing you the keys. One hold walls off a maintained set of 50 wagering apps and 50 gambling sites on this iPhone — PrizePicks's app and website together, alongside every other covered operator — until the end time you chose. Walls are timed: free 1-hour walls forever, longer with Pro, and mid-wall there is nothing to toggle off. No account, no card, and everything runs on the device.
60-second setup
Install Untilt, allow Screen Time when iOS asks (one permission, one time — blocking is applied on-device, and Untilt cannot read your activity), then press and hold for two seconds. The wall goes up and PrizePicks stops loading until the end time on the readout. When it matters most — mid-tilt, before the game, the moment the deposit urge hits — the whole ritual is one hold.
Questions
I self-excluded from sportsbooks in my state. Why can I still use PrizePicks?
Most state exclusion programs cover licensed sportsbooks and casinos. DFS pick'em operators are usually licensed under different rules, so the exclusion doesn't reach them. That's a legal boundary, not a technical one — a device-level wall covers both.
Is PrizePicks gambling?
Legally it's daily fantasy in most states. Functionally, you stake money on sports outcomes. Untilt blocks it by default because the reflex doesn't check the statute.
Does this block the website too, or just the app?
Both. A wall blocks the covered apps and the covered websites together — PrizePicks's app and its domain are each in the maintained catalog, and Apple's Screen Time technology enforces both on this iPhone.
Does it work on cellular, or only Wi-Fi?
Both. The block is applied on the iPhone itself, so it holds on 5G, LTE, and any Wi-Fi network without router changes.
Can I take the wall down early?
Free walls run one hour and then come down on their own. Ending a long wall early is deliberately slow — a 24-hour wait, then a 15-second hold. Untilt never claims to be impossible to bypass; iOS gives the phone's owner final control. It claims to make the next bet slower than the urge.
Related
WALL OFF PRIZEPICKS.
Hold once. Covered sportsbooks, DFS apps, and prediction markets stop loading on this iPhone. One-hour walls are free; Pro holds longer.
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COVERAGE UPDATED JULY 2026 · 50 APPS + 50 SITES · METHODOLOGY