How to enable parental controls on Roblox 13+ accounts

Go to https://www.roblox.com/login, enter the account’s username and password, and click Log In.

Click the gear icon at the top right of the screen.

Click the Settings option in the menu that appears and the Account Info page will open. You can also go directly to Roblox’ Settings at https://www.roblox.com/my/account#!/info if you’re already signed in.

Check the date of birth associated with the account. If the date of birth is that of an under-13, their account settings will automatically be locked to the safest options, and cannot be changed until they age up. If it’s set to an adult’s date of birth, as mine is, you’ll have to manually configure Privacy and Parental settings.

If you want to change the date of birth, use the drop-down boxes to enter the correct month, date and year for your user, then click Save. You can always change an adult date of birth to that of a child, but if you do, it cannot be changed back or access any age-locked content or features until the child ages up.

Scroll to the bottom of the page and see if any social networks are currently linked. 13+ accounts can add and make visible social networks. However, I recommend that everyone except streamers and developers with a PR or devlog account keep their socials entirely invisible.

At the bottom of the Social Networks section, click the pull-down tab marked “Visible to” select “No one”.

Click the Save button. A pop-up will inform you that your choice has been saved successfully.

Scroll back up the page and select the Privacy tab at the left of the settings page, or go to https://www.roblox.com/my/account#!/privacy

This is where you can see who is allowed to message and interact with your account. I’m going to encourage you to fully disable Roblox’s chat and messaging system, which is appropriate if you have a younger child using your account. Note that, if the age on your account is over 13, you cannot currently set content filtering to the under-13 mode when chat is enabled.

Click the pull-down menu beneath Contact Settings and select “Off”. This will be auto-saved, with a green “Saved Successfully” bar appearing at the top of the page to inform you of this.

Further down the page, under “Who can invite me to private servers?”, open the pull-down and select “No one”. If you play together as a family, you may wish to set this to “Friends”, instead.

Under “Who can join me?”, open the pull-down and select “No one”. If you play together as a family, you may wish to set this to “Friends”, instead.

Under “Who can see my inventory?”, open the pull-down and select “No one”.

In the tab bar to the left of this settings page, select Parental Controls.

Click the slider button next to where it says “Parent PIN is disabled”.

Set a four-digit number as your PIN and confirm it in the box below.

Click the Add button. With a PIN set, no one who doesn’t have the code number will be able to change the settings on this Roblox account. Save the PIN in a password manager so you don’t forget it.

A box will inform you of this. Click the OK button to clear it.

You can lock Roblox down to all-audiences content by clicking the slider next to Account Restrictions. This will disable direct messaging, which we already disabled in our Privacy settings, and also block a significant chunk of games in the system. It’s a viable choice if you absolutely must leave a younger child unsupervised for a short while, but I generally recommend setting looser restrictions and playing together instead.

Because this is a settings change, you’ll be prompted to enter the PIN you just set.

Click the Unlock button to change your settings.