New Tools for Parents to Personalize Their Child’s Experience on Roblox

• We’re launching three additional parental controls to empower families to get the most out of Roblox.
• These include controls that empower parents to limit who their child can connect with, see which experiences their child plays the most, and limit which experiences their child can access.
• Parents can find updated safety guides in our refreshed Safety Center, along with other resources, tools, and how-to instructions.

Safety underpins everything we do at Roblox, particularly the safety of our youngest users. We are continually investing in our safety systems, and in 2024, we rolled out more than 40 safety updates. These included built-in protections for our youngest users, new content labels, and limits on how users younger than 13 can communicate. Today, we’re launching three additional tools for parents, including the ability to block specific experiences or people on their child’s friends list and the ability to see which experiences their kid is spending the most time in.

This launch follows several major updates we made to our parental controls several months ago, when we shared our goal to provide parents with granular controls to monitor how their child spends their time on Roblox. We know children develop on different timelines and parents have different comfort levels regarding how much time their kid spends online, where they spend it, and who they spend it with. In developing parental controls, we prioritize transparency and ease of use to make it as simple as possible for parents to implement them. It’s also important to note that, regardless of whether parents use these controls, we consider the safety of our youngest users paramount to the Roblox experience.

These changes have been supported by many of our key partners in the online safety space. One of those partners, Larry Magid, CEO of ConnectSafely, said “Providing tools blocking specific friends and Roblox experiences, along with visibility into how long their child is playing Roblox games, enables parents to better support their children’s safe use of the platform. Roblox has consistently provided parents with tools that enable their children to enjoy the platform, while helping protect them against online risks. These new friend- and experience-blocking tools provide parents with even more ways to help ensure their children are using it safely. Safety, fun, and adventure are not mutually exclusive.”

In addition to these new controls, we’re updating our Safety Center to serve as a hub for safety resources, tools, and policies for users and parents alike. Here, users can find our latest Community Standards, reporting tools, and transparency reports, as well as information about the global safety experts and organizations we partner with to share knowledge and best practices as the industry evolves. This work reinforces our commitment to transparency, civility, and user protection across all experiences.

We’re also launching our updated open-source voice safety classifier. This model allows us to moderate millions of minutes of voice chat per day, across eight languages, more accurately than human moderators. We know safety transcends Roblox, which is why we open-source our AI safety models and recently joined ROOST, a nonprofit that’s tackling digital safety, as a founding member.

Parents or caregivers who want to start using these new controls or become more involved in monitoring their child’s activity can link their Roblox account to their child’s account after verifying themselves with an ID or credit card. After linking accounts, parents can manage their child’s experience from Parental Controls.

Click here to learn how to link your account to your child’s.

Our last update enabled parents to view their child’s friends list. With friend blocking, parents can now block anyone on that friends list with whom they do not want their child direct messaging. Parents also have the option to report anyone on that friends list if they believe that person is violating Roblox policies. Should a parent want to unblock someone, they can easily do so from Parental Controls. 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.

Parents already have a setting to review or change the content maturity level for their child’s account, which determines the type of experiences their child can access. Today, we’re releasing experience-level blocking for parents who want more granular control over the experiences their child can join. For example, they may want their child to have access to Moderate content in general, but not to a specific experience that appears in the Moderate category. Experience-level blocking empowers parents to block any specific experiences that they don’t want their child to access.

Parents will now find a section titled Blocked experiences within the Content restrictions section of Parental Controls. Here, parents can search for specific experiences and choose the ones they’d like to block. When they hit the block button, a pop-up will ask them to confirm that they want to block this experience. The list of all Blocked experiences will appear in the same Blocked experiences section. Children will see this list in the Blocked experiences section of their settings and will be able to request parental consent to unblock a specific experience. However, they will not be able to remove items from the blocked list themselves until they are 13.

Parents can already view and set limits on their child’s daily screen time. With these new updates, parents gain more granular insights into how their child spends their time on Roblox. Now, parents can see the 20 experiences in which their child has spent the most time over the last week, sorted by total time. If parents spot any experiences they don’t want their child to access, they can block the experience, either from this list or from the Blocked experiences section described above.

Our revamped Safety Center and these new parental controls are just part of our work to offer our users the best, most age-appropriate tools to confidently navigate online safety on Roblox and beyond. We regularly update our tools, policies, and systems to help keep children safe on Roblox—whether or not parents choose to use our parental controls—because it is the right thing for children, their parents, our investors, and our company. Roblox is dedicated to providing people with the tools and education to navigate the online world with confidence and create positive experiences.