Roblox parental controls

To use Roblox parental controls, you must set up a parent account. You can then link your child’s account to yours for access to a range of settings and insights.

To create a parent account:

Your Roblox parent account is now ready to link to your child’s for use of parental controls.

If your child is under the age of 13, you can set parental controls across their account. To do this, you must link your Roblox parent account to your child’s account.

To link to your child’s account:

Note: If you have not verified your age, you will be asked to do so before you can link to your child’s account.

Otherwise, you can return to your Roblox account to customise parental controls for your child.

Roblox has a lot of fun games and experiences that children enjoy. Unfortunately, children can struggle to switch off and take breaks, so Roblox has in-built screen time controls parents can use.

To set screen time limits:

Under Screen time, you can also view Top experiences to see which games your child plays the most on Roblox. This is a great tool to help you talk with them about their online life.

Now that you’ve linked your account to your child’s, you can set controls. Content Maturity level is the setting that controls the level of mature content your child can see while playing, such as blood, violence and crude humour.

To set Content Maturity Level:

Younger children should be kept to the lower end of the bar, with options like Minimal or Mild, while older children and teens might be able to use a moderate maturity level.

If parents want more control over the experiences their child can access on Roblox, they can use experience-level blocking. For example, if a parent wants their child to have a Moderate content maturity level but not access a specific experience that appears in the Moderate category, they can use this feature.

To block specific experiences:

You can view the content’s maturity level underneath the experience’s title.

You can customise who your child communicates with on Roblox through privacy settings. This can help you ensure they only communicate with Friends and that strangers cannot directly message them.

To manage communication settings:

Here, you can customise chat filters, who can message your child, who can chat with your child in the app and who can with them.

Roblox offers ways to help parents manage their children’s in-game spending.

Players must purchase in-game currency called Robux in order to buy items for avatars. Learn more about in-game purchases here.

To manage spending on Roblox:

Monthly Spending Limit: This option allows you to set an amount that your child can spend on Roblox each month. They will not be able to exceed this amount.

Spending notifications: Here you can set how often you receive notifications when your child spends money. You can choose to receive notifications whenever money is spent, only receive notifications for high spend amounts, or not receive notifications at all.

The Visibility and private server controls let you decide who can add your child to a private server to game with them. This allows you to prevent strangers from inviting your child to a private game.

To manage visibility and server controls on Roblox:

Visibility: This option allows you to control who can view your child’s profile, and who can see if they are currently online.

Private servers: This lets you control who can invite your child to play in private servers with them. For most children, this should be set to the Friends option, meaning only people your child knows and is already friends with can add them to private sessions.

You can control who can view your child’s inventory on Roblox. This is something that is used when trading, although only premium users have the ability to trade on Roblox.

To control who can view your child’s inventory:

To keep Roblox safe for all users, it’s important that your child knows the importance of reporting and blocking users or content that is inappropriate.

Show children how and when to use these functions on the platform.

To report users in-game:

To report friends on Roblox:

To report content on Roblox:

On the following page, explain why the content you’re reporting is inappropriate for Roblox.

Encourage your child to block other users who make them or other users uncomfortable or angry.

To block a user on Roblox:

You can also block a user from their profile.

Parents can block specific accounts in their child’s friends list with whom they do not want their child direct messaging.

To block your child’s friend:

The friend will now be blocked and unable to contact your child at all on Roblox. Parents have the option to unblock them at any time. Children under the age of 13 cannot unblock users their parents have blocked. They can, however, send a request to their parent or caregiver to ask them to do so.

2-step verification can add an additional layer of security to your child’s account. It also means that your child will need you to approve their use of Roblox, which you can discuss before they play.

You must have a verified email to enable this feature.

To turn on 2-step verification: