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Roblox parental controls

Linking a parent account, then setting chat, content, spending and screen time.
Roblox, October 2026, 8 steps, about 30 minutes, not yet verified on a device

Draft. These steps are written from Roblox's own documentation but have not yet been walked through by hand on Roblox, October 2026. Menu names may differ. We will mark this guide verified, with the date, once every step has been checked on a real device.

Their device Roblox calls this: Age check

1. Get the age check done on their account

Nothing else behaves predictably until this is done. Roblox uses the result to decide which games your child can reach and whether they can chat at all.

  1. On your child's account, open Settings and follow the age check prompt
  2. Choose either ID verification or facial age estimation through the device camera
  3. Roblox sorts the account into Roblox Kids (5 to 8), Roblox Select (9 to 15) or the standard experience (16+)

What your child will notice. Without a completed age check, chat is switched off entirely whatever age they say they are. With one, they get the chat their age band allows and the game catalogue that goes with it.

What this won't stop

Facial age estimation is accurate to within about 1.4 years on average, by Roblox's own published figure. A 15 or 16 year old can land in the wrong band. You can correct it through Parental Controls once accounts are linked, but you have to notice first.

Both devices Roblox calls this: Parental Controls

2. Link your account as the parent

This is the Roblox equivalent of Family Sharing. Without it you have no spending limits, no screen time, and no approval requests.

  1. On your child's device: Settings › Parental Controls › Add parent
  2. Enter your email address, then confirm from your inbox
  3. Verify your own age with a government ID or a credit card
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Parental Controls. Everything in the rest of this guide sits under your child's name here.

What your child will notice. You can now change their settings from your own account, and requests to play a blocked game arrive for you to allow or decline.

What this won't stop

A child can unlink the accounts, which removes your ability to approve anything, set limits or see requests. Roblox tells you when it happens, so do not ignore that email.

Your device Roblox calls this: Content maturity

3. Set what they are allowed to play

The single widest control. It governs the whole catalogue rather than one game at a time.

  1. Settings › Parental Controls › select your child
  2. Content maturity › move the slider to the level you want
  3. To block one specific game, use Blocked games › + › search › Block

What your child will notice. Games above the level stop loading. Expect a request about one specific game within days, and it comes to you to allow or decline.

What this won't stop

Maturity labels are declared by the developer and reviewed at scale, not play-tested one by one. A Moderate label does not mean a 10 year old will be fine in it. And a blocked game still appears in search results, it just will not open.

Your device Roblox calls this: Experience chat, Direct chat, Voice chat

4. Turn chat down to what you are comfortable with

Chat with strangers is the risk most parents are actually worried about, and Roblox splits it across four separate settings.

  1. Parental Controls › your child › Experience chat — public chat inside a game
  2. Direct chat — one to one messages
  3. Chat and party with friends › All friends, Trusted friends or No one
  4. Voice chat with friends › Trusted friends or No one

What your child will notice. With chat off they can still play everything. They just cannot type to people. Expect real pushback from anyone over about ten, because for most children the talking is the point.

What this won't stop

This covers chat inside Roblox only. A great deal of Roblox friendship moves to Discord, Snapchat or WhatsApp, where none of these settings reach. If your child plays regularly with someone they met on Roblox, that conversation is very likely happening somewhere else already.

Your device Roblox calls this: Visibility and trading

5. Close private servers, inventory and trading

Three quiet settings that are open by default and that almost nobody changes.

  1. Parental Controls › your child › Private servers › Connections or No one
  2. Inventory visibility › Connections or No one
  3. Trading › Friends or No one (Premium and Plus accounts only)

What your child will notice. Nothing changes day to day. This is a quiet tightening they will probably not notice.

What this won't stop

Set to Connections, a private server can still be joined by anyone on their connections list, and children accept connection requests very readily. If that matters to you, choose No one.

Your device Roblox calls this: Spending restrictions

6. Cap what they can spend

Robux is designed to be bought in small amounts repeatedly, which is exactly how a bill gets away from you.

  1. Parental Controls › your child › spending limit
  2. Set a monthly figure
  3. Set notifications to all transactions rather than high spend alerts only

What your child will notice. Purchases stop once the limit is reached. It resets at the end of the calendar month and anything unused does not roll over.

What this won't stop

It does not cover Robux redeemed from a gift card. A gift card at Christmas sits entirely outside the limit you set.

Your device Roblox calls this: Screen time

7. Set a daily time limit

Roblox has no natural stopping point, which is deliberate.

  1. Parental Controls › your child › screen time
  2. Set a daily limit

What your child will notice. Once the limit is reached Roblox closes for the rest of the day. There is no extension button to argue over.

What this won't stop

Screen time only exists for Roblox Kids accounts and Roblox Select users aged 9 to 12. If your child is 13 or over there is no time limit inside Roblox at all, and you have to use the device's own screen time controls instead.

Their device Roblox calls this: Parent PIN

8. Set a Parent PIN

Without it, every approval means logging in. With it, approvals take seconds, which means you will actually do them.

  1. On your child's device, when a request prompts you, choose to take over the device
  2. Create a Parent PIN
  3. Choose something they have not watched you type, and not a birthday

What your child will notice. Future requests can be approved or declined on the spot.

What this won't stop

The same failure as every other control in this guide. A PIN your child knows is not a PIN.

Check it actually worked

Five minutes with their device in your hand. If any of these fail, the setting did not save. Go back to the step it came from and check it again.

  • Open a game above the maturity level you set. It should not load.
  • Send a chat message in a game. It should match what you allowed, not more.
  • Check Parental Controls on their account. You should be listed as the parent.
  • Try to buy Robux above the monthly limit. It should be refused.
  • Check your email. You should have the parent link confirmation.