How to set up Roblox parental controls

You can control your child’s content maturity level, who they can chat with, and how much they spend, and it takes about fifteen minutes once you know where to look. Roblox now manages all of this through a parent account linked to your child’s, not a PIN typed into their device. Here is exactly how to set it up, and where it stops.

Before you start: what changed

If you set up Roblox controls a few years ago and haven’t touched them since, the system has moved on. The old four digit Parent PIN typed on your child’s device is gone. In its place is a Roblox account with parent privileges, created and verified as an adult, then linked to your child’s account. Everything from there happens on your device, in your account, not theirs.

This matters because it means your child cannot see or quietly change the settings you set. It also means the first step is creating an account, not digging through your child’s settings menu.

Step 1: Create your account with parent privileges

Go to Roblox and create an account for yourself if you don’t already have one. When you set it up as a parent account, Roblox will ask you to enter your birthday and verify that you’re an adult, either through a government issued ID, a credit card, or facial age estimation. This age check is required. Roblox will not grant parent privileges to an unverified account, because the whole system depends on knowing there’s a real adult on the other end.

Budget a few extra minutes for the verification step itself. It’s the part most parents skip ahead of and then get stuck on.

Step 2: Link your child’s account

Once your account is verified, open Parental Controls in your account settings and choose to add a child. Roblox will either send a request to your child’s account for them to approve, or walk you through linking directly if you know their username. Follow the prompt through to confirmation.

After linking, you manage your child’s settings from your own account, on your own device, in the Parental Controls section. Your child does not need to hand you their device or type anything in.

Step 3: Set the content maturity level

Content maturity is the setting that decides which experiences your child can even open. Roblox rates individual games and experiences using four labels: Minimal, Mild, Moderate, and Restricted, based on things like violence, blood, crude humor, and fear themes.

For an account under 13, you can choose Minimal, Mild, or Moderate. Restricted is not available to you to select for a younger child, because Roblox already limits that tier to age verified adults regardless of what a parent chooses. Pick the level that matches what you’d be comfortable with them stumbling into unsupervised, not just the games you already know they play, since content maturity applies platform wide.

If your child has a Roblox Kids account (roughly ages 5 to 8) or a Roblox Select account (roughly ages 9 to 15), the account type itself already narrows what’s on offer. The maturity setting is a second, finer control on top of that.

Step 4: Set chat and contact settings

This is the setting worth spending the most time on, because who your child can talk to matters more than which game they’re playing. From Parental Controls, open the communication settings for your child’s account.

Chat is disabled by default for the youngest users, and access opens up gradually with age, with parental consent needed at several points along the way. You can control whether in-game chat with other players is on, whether direct chat outside a shared game is allowed, and which age ranges your child can be matched with in chat. Roblox also runs a Trusted Connections system for verified contacts, similar to how a phone contacts list works, so chat can be narrowed to people your child actually knows rather than opened to strangers by default.

Don’t assume the default is the safe choice for your specific child. Open the setting and confirm it matches what you actually want.

Step 5: Set a monthly spending limit

Robux purchases, gacha style chests, and limited time offers are built to make “just one more” hard to resist, so a spending cap is worth setting even if your child has never asked for Robux yet. From Parental Controls, set a monthly spending limit for your child’s account. Once they hit it, further purchases are blocked until the limit resets at the start of the next calendar month. It does not roll over, and it does not cover gift card redemption or purchases made through a games console rather than Roblox directly.

You can also choose how you’re notified about spending, either every transaction or only once spending crosses higher thresholds. Turning on notifications means you find out about a spending spike the same day, not at the end of the month.

This control applies while your child is under 13. Once they turn 13, the limit stops applying automatically and spending management shifts to your teen, so it’s worth having the money conversation directly around that birthday rather than assuming the app still has it covered.

Step 6: Check screen time, if you want it

Roblox also offers screen time monitoring and limits inside the same Parental Controls area, covering daily time on the platform. This one is optional depending on how your family already handles screen time. Some parents prefer to manage total device time at the operating system level instead, since a Roblox specific limit says nothing about what happens the moment your child closes the app and opens something else.

What Roblox parental controls cannot do

Everything above governs Roblox. None of it reaches outside the app.

A child who opens a browser and searches for a free Robux generator or an “undetected” executor has left Roblox entirely, and no Roblox setting sees that page load. That’s exactly the gap that cheat and executor sites live in, and it’s a well documented vector for malware dressed up as a script injector rather than an actual game hack. We cover how that scam works in Roblox executors and the malware risk.

There’s a second gap. Roblox’s controls rely on your child’s account staying inside the boundaries you set from your linked parent account. A child using an administrator Windows account can often find their way around app level restrictions, because the operating system itself hands them the keys to undo things quietly. Putting your child on a standard, non-administrator account closes that gap and makes every other layer, including Roblox’s own settings, much harder to reverse.

Where FamilyProtect fits

Set up Roblox’s own controls first. They’re free, they’re specific to Roblox, and this guide just walked you through the parts that matter most.

FamilyProtect is not a replacement for any of that, and it does not touch Roblox’s settings at all. It’s a separate layer underneath: per-device content filtering on Windows that covers every browser and app on the machine, not just Roblox, and blocks the malware laden cheat and executor sites before they ever load. It’s tamper resistant and self healing, so a changed browser setting or a cleared history doesn’t quietly turn it off, and it keeps working even when your child takes a laptop to a friend’s house, off your home Wi-Fi. It does not manage screen time, it does not read messages, and it does not touch anything inside Roblox itself. What it needs from you is a standard, non-admin account for your child, the same step that protects Roblox’s own settings above.

If you’re setting up a new PC or want the full picture of how the two layers sit together, see Windows parental controls. For the wider question of whether Roblox itself is safe for your child’s age, start with Is Roblox safe for kids?

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Last checked: August 2026.