How to Set Up Roblox Parental Controls
Roblox has more controls than most parents realise, and they're spread across several menus. Here's all of them, in the order worth doing them.
Do this on your child's account, not yours.Every setting below lives on the account being protected. You'll need to be signed in as them, which means knowing their password — worth settling before you start.
Check the birthday on the account first
This is the single most important setting, and it's the one most likely to be wrong. Roblox applies significantly stronger protections to accounts registered as under 13 — stricter chat filtering, limited contact, and restricted experience access.
Kids routinely enter a fake older birthday at signup, either to get around limits or just by guessing. Go to Settings → Account Infoand check what it says. If it's wrong, fix it — Roblox lets you lower a birthday, and doing so tightens everything else automatically.
Set a Parent PIN
Settings → Parental Controls → Account PIN.Turn it on and set a 4-digit PIN your child doesn't know.
Without this, every other setting on this page can be undone in about ten seconds. With it, changing any protected setting requires the PIN. This is the step that makes the rest stick.
Restrict which experiences they can open
Under Parental Controls → Content Maturity, pick the maturity level allowed on the account — Minimal, Mild, Moderate, or Restricted. Anything above the level you set won't open.
There's also an Allowed Experiencestoggle that limits the account to Roblox-curated content only. It's blunt, and older kids will find it frustrating, but for younger children it's the strongest single control available.
Turn on spending controls
Parental Controls → Spending. You can set a monthly Robux spend limit and switch on notifications so you get an email whenever the account spends.
If a card is saved to the account, remove it and buy gift cards instead. It converts an invisible recurring drip into a decision someone has to make on purpose.
Set daily screen time limits
Parental Controls → Screen Time. Roblox lets you set a daily playtime allowance per day of the week. When it runs out, the account is logged out.
Set it slightly higher than you think you need at first. A limit that triggers mid-session on the first day tends to end with the whole idea being abandoned.
Link your own email as the parent contact
Under Parental Controls, add your email address as the parent contact. Roblox then sends you notifications about the account and, importantly, sends changes to these settings to yourinbox rather than your child's.
Lock down chat and privacy
These live in a different menu — Settings → Privacy— and they're the ones that decide who can reach your child at all.
We wrote a separate walkthrough for these, because there are eight of them and the right answer differs by age: the Roblox privacy & chat settings checklist.
What these controls don't do
Worth being straight about the gaps, because the settings above can create a false sense of completeness.
They don't show you what happened. Roblox has no activity log for parents. There's no built-in way to see which games your child played yesterday, for how long, who they added, or what changed on their profile. The controls decide what's allowed; nothing reports back.
They don't cover a second account. Every control here is per-account. A new account takes under a minute to make, and it'll have none of these settings. If a child wants around the limits, this is how they do it — so it's worth knowing the username they actually play on.
Chat filtering catches words, not intent. The filter is genuinely good at blocking phone numbers and slurs. It cannot detect someone being patient and friendly for three weeks before suggesting they talk somewhere else.
Roblox reorganises its settings menus fairly often, so a label here may sit somewhere slightly different in the app by the time you read this. The controls themselves have all been stable — if you can't find one, it's almost always moved rather than gone.
The gap these settings leave is visibility.
RoGuard fills the part Roblox doesn't: a log of every game your child plays, how long they played, every new friend, and every profile change — with an email when something looks off.