New parental controls and insights are coming quickly
Pricey father or mother,
We’ve been engaged on a sequence of essential modifications that we’ll be making to your youngster’s account, ____________, subsequent month.
About Roblox accounts with father or mother privileges
Subsequent month, we’re altering the way in which dad and mom handle their youngster’s expertise on Roblox by introducing Roblox accounts with father or mother privileges. After linking your account to your youngster’s, dad and mom can view and replace parental controls for his or her youngster all from their very own system. Mother and father additionally get entry to insights about their youngster’s Roblox utilization, similar to their each day display screen time and on-platform associates.
Given these modifications, beginning subsequent month, dad and mom will now not be capable of set a father or mother PIN, use Account Restrictions, or obtain account-related notifications to their parental e-mail. As an alternative, you’ll need to make use of an account with father or mother privileges. Present verified parental emails on youngster accounts will proceed for use for account restoration. Any settings beforehand set utilizing a father or mother PIN won’t change, however you’ll need an account with father or mother privileges to make updates going ahead.
As at all times, if customers are curious 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 dad and mom 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 anticipate in an expertise, relatively than by age. Expertise Pointers will likely be renamed Content material Labels, and also you’ll be capable of set limits on the kind of content material accessible to your youngster by 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 father or mother permission to entry sure chat options. Customers below the age of 9 can even want father or mother permission to entry experiences with content material maturity “Average,” which can comprise issues like average violence or average crude humor.
Your youngster’s settings will likely be up to date after they attain sure ages, for those who and your youngster haven’t beforehand made modifications to them. You and your youngster will likely be notified of those updates prematurely.
We are going to share extra info 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 father or mother 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 father or mother 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 other ways to replace our parental controls to make them much more helpful for folks.
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