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New parental controls and insights are coming quickly
Expensive mother or father,
We’ve been engaged on a collection of necessary modifications that we’ll be making to your baby’s account, ____________, subsequent month.
About Roblox accounts with mother or father privileges
Subsequent month, we’re altering the best way mother and father handle their baby’s expertise on Roblox by introducing Roblox accounts with mother or father privileges. After linking your account to your baby’s, mother and father can view and replace parental controls for his or her baby all from their very own machine. Dad and mom additionally get entry to insights about their baby’s Roblox utilization, comparable to their day by day display time and on-platform pals.
Given these modifications, beginning subsequent month, mother and father will now not have the ability to set a mother or father PIN, use Account Restrictions, or obtain account-related notifications to their parental e-mail. As an alternative, you have to to make use of an account with mother or father privileges. Present verified parental emails on baby accounts will proceed for use for account restoration. Any settings beforehand set utilizing a mother or father PIN won’t change, however you have to an account with mother or father privileges to make updates going ahead.
As all the time, if customers are concerned about an added layer of safety on their account, you possibly can arrange 2-factor authentication.
Up to date content material maturity settings
As we shared with the group in July, to assist present mother and father and customers extra readability into the kinds of content material accessible on Roblox, we’ll quickly start labeling experiences primarily based on the kind of content material customers can count on in an expertise, reasonably than by age. Expertise Tips might be renamed Content material Labels, and also you’ll have the ability to set limits on the kind of content material accessible to your baby by way of the content material maturity setting in parental controls.
New default settings for customers below the age of 13
As a part of Roblox’s dedication to security, we’re additionally updating sure default settings for our youngest customers. Beginning subsequent month, customers below the age of 13 will want mother or father permission to entry sure chat options. Customers below the age of 9 will even want mother or father permission to entry experiences with content material maturity “Average,” which can include issues like reasonable violence or reasonable crude humor.
Your baby’s settings might be up to date after they attain sure ages, in the event you and your baby haven’t beforehand made modifications to them. You and your baby might be notified of those updates upfront.
We’ll share extra data on these setting updates when the modifications go into impact subsequent month.
Subsequent steps
To proceed receiving notifications about your baby’s account associated to spending or different necessary exercise, you’ll have to arrange a Roblox account with mother or father privileges and hyperlink to your baby’s account. When these modifications take impact, your baby will obtain a notification inviting them so as to add a linked mother or father account, and we’ll ship you an e-mail with directions.
Since day one, Roblox has been dedicated to constructing security options and instruments into the design of our merchandise. We’ll all the time proceed to discover other ways to replace our parental controls to make them much more helpful for folks.
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