Roblox

Roblox Parental Controls (2026): Setup, Roblox Kids & Select Accounts

✅ Last verified: Oct 14, 2026 — Roblox Help Center "Parental Controls Overview" and Roblox newsroom posts (Nov 2025, Apr 2026, May 2026), checked Oct 14, 2026.
Quick answer: Roblox controls live on your child's page under Settings → Parental controls. You manage them either from your own linked parent account (recommended — it also sends you emails and spending alerts) or with Parent mode on your child's device.

📣 Communication controls (start here)

Who can talk to your child is the most important setting. Controls stack in layers: console/device → platform account → in-game. Set every layer, because one layer doesn't always control another. Communication Safety Hub →

Roblox: In-game (Roblox account), plus console/device settings

Text chatExperience chat (under 9 needs parent consent). Direct chat (under 13 needs consent). Friends chat: All friends / Trusted friends / No one
Voice chatNot available under 13. Ages 13–17: only with same-age-group trusted friends
DMs / whispersDirect chat On/Off
Friend requestsUnder 13 need parent permission for trusted friends
Parties / joiningNot confirmed
Online status / locationNot confirmed
Images, links, giftsNot confirmed
Parents can seeFriends list (All or Trusted) in Parental controls
Parents can't seeNot confirmed
Block / reportFriends list → ⋯ → Block (removes them and stops direct chat) or Report
Defaults by ageUnder 9: experience chat needs consent. Under 13: direct chat needs consent, no voice. 13–17: voice only with trusted friends

Turn it fully off:

  1. Parental controls → your child → Communication → Experience chat Off and Direct chat Off.
  2. Friends chat: No one.

Limit to approved friends:

  1. Friends chat: Trusted friends.
  2. Approve trusted-friend requests by email or Pending requests.

How it layers: PlayStation says Roblox chat is independent of PS4/PS5 communication settings, so set Roblox controls too.

⚠ We didn't confirm online-status visibility, image/link sharing, or exactly what parents can and can't read in chats.

Sources: [1] [2] [3] · "Not confirmed" means we couldn't verify it in official sources yet.

Xbox (Microsoft family): system-level communication

  1. Xbox: Settings → Account → Family settings → Manage family members → child → Privacy & online safety → Xbox privacy → View details & customize → Communication & multiplayer.
  2. "Others can communicate with voice, text, or invites": Everyone / Friends / Block.
  3. "You can communicate outside of Xbox with voice & text": Block.
  4. "You can add friends": set so you approve friends.

Even on Block, members of a club can still talk to your child if Clubs is set to Allow. Mute stops a player speaking to you; Block stops their messages and invites, removes them as a friend, and hides your online activity from them.

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PlayStation (PS5/PS4): system-level communication

  1. PS5: Settings → Family and Parental Controls → Family Management → child → Parental Controls → Communication and User-Generated Content → Restrict. Also in the PlayStation Family app.

Restrict turns off text messages and voice chat (pre-written in-game messages still allowed), sharing and viewing user-generated content, and linking some third-party communication apps. Kids can request a per-game exception, which you approve in the Family app. Roblox chat is NOT controlled by this setting.

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iPhone / iPad: system-level communication

  1. Settings → Family → child → Allowed Contacts: choose who they can call, message and FaceTime, and require approval for new contacts.
  2. Settings → Family → child → Communication Safety On.

Covers Messages, FaceTime and Phone only, not chat inside games or other apps. Communication Safety blurs detected nudity, gore or violence. Under 13s need the Screen Time passcode to view it. Apple doesn't see the images.

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In this guide
  1. What changed in 2026: Roblox Kids and Roblox Select
  2. Step 1: Link your parent account to your child's
  3. Step 2: Open your child's Parental controls page
  4. Step 3: Set a daily screen time limit
  5. Step 4: Set spending limits and alerts
  6. Step 5: Choose which games they can join
  7. Step 6: Chat and friends
  8. Settings by age
  9. Troubleshooting
  10. Official sources

What changed in 2026: Roblox Kids and Roblox Select

Roblox announced two age-based account types: Roblox Kids for ages 5–8 and Roblox Select for ages 9–15. They bring age checks, account-level defaults, content ratings and parental controls into one framework, and give under-16s access to a curated set of games.

Parents can now block specific games and manage direct chat through age 15, and can approve individual games that aren't available by default for their child's account type (these show up under Allowed games).

If your child's age is wrong, a linked parent can correct it once via Parental controls after the initial age check.

⚠️ Couldn't fully confirm: Roblox said these accounts would roll out "in early June" 2026, and its May post names Australia, Indonesia, the Netherlands and New Zealand first. We could not confirm the exact date they reached every country (including the US). Check your child's account to see which type it shows.

Source: about.roblox.com

Step 2: Open your child's Parental controls page

  1. Go to Settings (desktop: gear icon at the top right; mobile: More at the bottom right, then the gear icon).
  2. Select Parental controls.
  3. Select your child's account. Scroll to Settings you manage to change settings.

Source: en.help.roblox.com

Step 3: Set a daily screen time limit

  1. On your child's page, scroll down to Screen time.
  2. Select Manage.
  3. Choose a time in the Daily limit dropdown (No limit, or 15-minute increments).

💡 From age 13 your child manages their own screen time limit; you can still view their screen time and top games. Turn on Activity updates (under Settings you manage) for a weekly email.

Source: en.help.roblox.com

Step 4: Set spending limits and alerts

  1. Under Settings you manage, select Spending restrictions.
  2. Select Monthly spending limit, enter an amount between 0 and 10,000 (your local currency), and select Update. The default is No limit.
  3. Under Spending notifications, choose All transactions, High spend alerts, or None.

💡 The limit resets each calendar month, does not affect gift card redemption, and "may not apply on certain console devices." Spending limits stop applying at 13. High spend alerts are on by default for linked parents.

Source: en.help.roblox.com

Step 5: Choose which games they can join

  1. Under Settings you manage, select Content restrictions.
  2. Select Content maturity and move the slider to Minimal, Mild, Moderate, or Restricted.
  3. To block a specific game: Blocked games → + → search the game → Block → Block again to confirm.
  4. Review approved games anytime in Allowed games (three-dot menu → Don't allow to revoke).

💡 Per Roblox: "Restricted" games are only available to age-checked users 18+, and "Content May Vary" games aren't available to children under 9. A block takes effect the next time your child enters the game.

Source: en.help.roblox.com

Step 6: Chat and friends

  1. Under Settings you manage, select Communication.
  2. Set Experience chat and Direct chat On or Off.
  3. Under Chat and party with friends, choose who they can chat with: All friends, Trusted friends, or No one.

💡 Roblox requires parental consent for experience chat under 9 and direct chat under 13. Many chat options need your child to complete an age check first. Children under 13 need your permission to add a trusted friend.

Source: en.help.roblox.com

Settings by age

SettingAges 5–8Ages 9–12Ages 13–15
Who controls screen timeYouYouYour teen (you can view it)
Monthly spending limitAvailableAvailableNo longer applies (alerts still available)
Experience chatNeeds your consentAvailableAvailable
Direct chatNeeds your consentNeeds your consentAvailable
Our suggested start*Content: Minimal; daily limit set; chat off; spending limit $0Content: Minimal or Mild; daily limit; Trusted friends chat only; low spending limitTalk through settings together; keep spending notifications on

*Rows 1–4 come from Roblox's help center. The last row is KidSafeSetup's editorial suggestion for a starting point, not an official Roblox recommendation — adjust for your child.

Troubleshooting

My child hit the limit but is still playing a blocked game

Roblox says a block "will only take effect the next time they enter the game."

I can't change some settings

Settings depend on age: from 13 your child controls screen time and blocking; at 16+ you only see notification settings. Many chat settings show "Age check needed".

I don't get spending emails

Spending notifications require a linked parent account — they don't work in Parent mode.

The spending limit didn't stop a purchase on console

Roblox notes the limit "may not apply on certain console devices." Also set console-level purchase restrictions.

Official sources

Menus change with app and system updates. If a step doesn't match what you see, the official page above is the authority — and please tell us so we can update this guide.

📬 Monthly "what changed" email for parents: coming soon. Game and app settings move constantly; we'll summarize changes once a month. Parents only, no kids' data, ever. Meanwhile, follow updates via RSS.