New parental controls and insights are coming quickly
Expensive mother or father,
We’ve been engaged on a collection of essential modifications that we’ll be making to your youngster’s account, ____________, subsequent month.
About Roblox accounts with mother or father privileges
Subsequent month, we’re altering the way in which mother and father handle their youngster’s expertise on Roblox by introducing Roblox accounts with mother or father privileges. After linking your account to your youngster’s, mother and father can view and replace parental controls for his or her youngster all from their very own machine. Dad and mom additionally get entry to insights about their youngster’s Roblox utilization, equivalent to their every day display screen time and on-platform associates.
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 a substitute, you will want to make use of an account with mother or father privileges. Current verified parental emails on youngster accounts will proceed for use for account restoration. Any settings beforehand set utilizing a mother or father PIN won’t change, however you will want an account with mother or father privileges to make updates going ahead.
As at all times, if customers are occupied with 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 neighborhood 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 shall be renamed Content material Labels, and also you’ll have the ability to set limits on the kind of content material accessible to your youngster 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 “Reasonable,” which can include issues like average violence or average crude humor.
Your youngster’s settings shall be up to date once they attain sure ages, should you and your youngster haven’t beforehand made modifications to them. You and your youngster shall be notified of those updates upfront.
We are going to share extra data on these setting updates when the modifications go into impact subsequent month.
Subsequent steps
To proceed receiving notifications about your youngster’s account associated to spending or different essential exercise, you’ll must arrange a Roblox account with mother or father privileges and hyperlink to your youngster’s account. When these modifications take impact, your youngster 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 are going to at all times proceed to discover alternative ways to replace our parental controls to make them much more helpful for fogeys.
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