How to block xFree on iPhone, and sites that appear next
xFree is a newer name, and that is exactly the point of this post. The adult web does not hold still. Sites appear, move, and rotate mirrors faster than any hand-built blocklist can follow, so the real question is not how to block one new site. It is how to stop new sites from being a permanent loophole.
The quick answer
- Escape's free Safari blocker works from a maintained, curated list of 40,000+ known adult domains, updated as the landscape moves.
- Custom blocks let you add any site yourself in one tap, including anything too new for any list.
- Deep Block (premium) applies all of it to every browser and private tabs, with the toggle greyed out while it runs.
The new-site problem, honestly
Every blocker faces the same uncomfortable truth. A brand-new site is unknown to every list for some window of time. The difference between tools is how short that window is and what you can do inside it. A static blocklist you built by hand two years ago has a window that never closes. A maintained list narrows it, and a one-tap custom block closes it the moment you personally meet a gap.
Escape's curated list is audited domain by domain and updated as sites appear and move. When something new like xFree shows up in your life before it shows up on a list, you add it yourself in one tap, and it syncs across your devices over iCloud. The block does not depend on anyone else noticing the site exists.
The setup
Install Escape from the App Store and switch the Safari blocker on in Safari settings. That is the curated list, live, free forever, no account. Then open the app and add any site you want gone to your custom blocks. Apple's Screen Time filter is worth turning on underneath it all as a general layer, with the setup covered here.
Every browser, or it is a suggestion
Like every Safari tool, the free Safari blocker covers Safari. If Chrome or Firefox or an in-app browser is on the phone, the same site loads there untouched. Deep Block filters every browser, stays on in private and incognito tabs, and iOS greys out the Safari toggle while it runs, so the setup you built in a clear moment survives a weak one. The complete picture is in the five layers of protection.
Past the whack-a-mole
If you have been blocking sites one at a time as they appear, you already know it is not a strategy, it is a chore that the habit always wins eventually. Block the category, keep the custom list for stragglers, and put the energy into the actual work. The 90-second urge tool, the courses, and the private on-device insights are in the same app, with nothing about you leaving your phone. The honest checklist for choosing a blocker is the place to compare.
Escape blocks porn in Safari for free, extends to every browser with Deep Block, and adds a 90-second urge ritual, practice games that retrain how you meet an urge, and 27 short courses on identity and the long arc of recovery. No account, no personal tracking.
More on this topic in Blocking porn on iPhone and iPad, or go deeper with the You grew up on this course.
See how the five layers of protection fit together, from the free Safari blocker through Deep Block and Strict Mode.