Roblox offers a variety of parental controls to help parents and caregivers manage their child’s experience on the platform. You will need a Roblox account linked to your child’s account to manage parental controls on behalf of your child. Learn more in the Parents: How to Link Your Child’s Account help article.
Content Controls
The content maturity settings allow you to control the types of content your child has access to in Roblox experiences. To adjust your child’s setting:
- Go to Settings
- Go to Parental Controls
- Go to Settings You Manage
- Scroll down and select Content Maturity
- Adjust the slider bar to the right or left to select the content maturity level that you are comfortable with. A brief description of the type of content will appear below the selected setting. Note that Restricted experiences are only available to 17+ verified users.
Content Labels
Our content maturity labels help users and their parents understand what types of content to expect in Roblox experiences. These labels are grounded in child development research and informed by industry standards. Parents can use the content maturity setting in parental controls to restrict their child’s access to content based on what makes sense for their family.
Content Label Descriptions
Minimal: May contain occasional mild violence, light unrealistic blood, and/or occasional mild fear.
Mild: May contain repeated mild violence, heavy unrealistic blood, mild crude humor, and/or repeated mild fear.
Moderate: May contain moderate violence, light realistic blood, moderate crude humor, unplayable gambling content, and/or moderate fear.
Restricted: May contain strong violence, heavy realistic blood, moderate crude humor, romantic themes, unplayable gambling content, the presence of alcohol, strong language, and/or moderate fear. We allow access to Restricted content only for users who are 17+ age-verified.
Communication Controls
Communication controls allow you to determine who your child can chat with on Roblox.
To set these controls for Experience chat
- Go to Settings
- Go to Parental Controls
- Go to Settings You Manage
- Go to Communication
- Select Experience Chat. Experience chat allows your child to chat with others within a specific experience.
- Select values for each of the settings to determine who can message and text chat with your child. There are two settings to select:
- Experience chat - This determines who can text chat with your child inside of an experience. You can find more info on experience chat here. This setting does not apply to chat features developed independently by developers. Choose between Everyone or No one. Users under the age of 13 are automatically set to Everyone.
- Experience direct chat - This determines who your child can chat with directly when using the ‘/w’ command inside of an experience server. This setting does not apply to chat features developed independently by developers. Choose between Everyone or No One. Users under the age of 13 are set to No one by default. They can update it with parent permission
Note: These settings do not apply to chat features developed independently by developers.
To set these controls for Party:
- Go to Settings
- Go to Parental Controls
- Go to Settings You Manage
- Go to Communication
- Select Party. A Party allows you to group up to join experiences together.
- Select values for each of the settings to determine who can message and text chat with your child. There are two settings available:
- You have the option to change the Party, Who Can One on One Party with Me setting default from Friends to No one. Selecting Friends limits you to a 1:1 Party (up to two members) and if you select No one you will be unable to participate in any Party.
- You also have the option to change the Group Party, Who Can Group Party With Me setting default from Friends to No one. The Friends setting indicates that you can be in a Party with up to six members.
Note: If settings for Party are defaulted to No one then Group Party will also be defaulted to No one.
Private Servers
A private server is a Roblox experience with limits on who can join. To limit who can join your child’s private servers, and whose servers they can join:
- Go to Settings
- Go to Parental Controls
- Go to Settings You Manage
- Go to Private Servers
- Choose between Friends or Off
Friends List
You can see a list of your child’s Roblox friends from within your parent dashboard. Friends are people your child has accepted a friend request from through Roblox. To view this list:
- Go to Settings
- Go to Parental Controls
- Go to Friends
- Your child’s friends will be displayed as usernames alongside their avatar. You can click on an avatar to see the user’s profile.
Spending Controls
You can set a monthly spending limit on how much money your child can spend on Roblox, including Robux or subscriptions to individual experiences. This limit does not impact gift card redemption. You can also choose to enable or disable notifications about your child’s spending.
To set spending controls:
- Go to Settings
- Go to Parental Controls
- Go to Settings You Manage
- Scroll down to select Spending restrictions
- You can set a monthly spending limit. Regardless of whether the allowed monthly limit is reached, it will reset at the end of the calendar month and not roll over.
- You can also determine if you want to receive spending notifications. You can choose if you want to be notified for every transaction, for only very high monthly spending, or both. High spend notifications are on by default for all linked parents. This means that you should receive purchase notifications after $100, $250, and $500 of spend in a given month (or the equivalent in local currency). After reaching $500, you should receive purchase notifications for every ten transactions by default.
Learn more in the Monthly Spending Limits help article.
Screen time controls
Screen time controls allow you to restrict the amount of time that your child is allowed to spend on Roblox each day. Once they reach their limit, your child will see a message explaining that they have hit their limit, and they will no longer be able to use Roblox for the rest of the day. To set screen time controls:
- Go to Settings
- Go to Parental Controls
- Click Manage next to the chart at the top of the screen, which shows a seven-day average for screen time
- From there, you can see the existing daily limit or update it to a new value
Learn more in the Managing Screen Time help article.