Guides

• Casino payment methods — how money reaches a betting account

  Why a deposit inside an iPhone app never goes through Apple, what each payment method actually costs you in fees and in withdrawal speed, and the one rule that decides whether you get paid out at all.

• Casino registration — what you are actually signing up to

  Opening a betting account takes two minutes and commits you to a specific company, in a specific country, under a specific regulator. Using 1xBet as the worked example, here is how to find out which one before you register.

• How to change your App Store country

  Apple's documented steps for moving your account to another storefront, the things you must give up first, and the reasons this may not get you what you came for.

• KYC verification at a casino — what is asked for, and which rule asks

  Why a betting account asks for your passport, what the operator is legally obliged to check, when the request is legitimate and when it is a stalling tactic on a withdrawal.

• Wagering requirements, worked out in numbers

  A wagering requirement turns a bonus into a turnover target. Here is the arithmetic that tells you what one is worth before you accept it, and the one regulator that has put a legal ceiling on how high it can go.

• Why your App Store has no casino app

  Apple requires real-money gambling apps to be licensed where they are used and geo-restricted to those places. That single rule explains almost everything about what you can and cannot find.