Roblox has rebuilt how parental controls work. The old approach, where you signed into your child's account and locked the settings behind a four-digit Account PIN, has been replaced. In the current model, you create or use a Roblox account of your own, verify that you are an adult, and link it to your child's account. From then on you manage their settings remotely from your own device: content limits, screen time, spending, and who can contact them. If you set a PIN years ago, treat it as legacy; the linked parent account is the system Roblox maintains now.
Roblox moves menu items around fairly often, so rather than memorizing an exact click path, check the sections: the pieces below all live under Parental Controls in Settings, on both the website and the app, under one arrangement or another. The controls themselves have stayed consistent even when the labels shift.
Link your account to your child's
The setup takes a few minutes and involves both accounts:
- On the child's account, open Settings and find the Parental Controls section, then choose the option to add a parent. It asks for your email address.
- Roblox emails you a link to create a parent account, or to use an existing account of your own.
- Verify that you are an adult. As of this writing, Roblox asks for a government-issued ID or a credit card for this step.
- Confirm the link on both sides.
Once linked, you can view and change your child's settings from your own phone or computer without touching theirs, and you can see basic activity insights such as daily screen time and their friends list.
The account's age still matters
The birth date on the child's account remains the foundation, because Roblox uses age to apply defaults and to decide which controls apply. Enter the real age when the account is created. As of this writing, most settings can be managed by a parent through age 12, and a smaller set of controls, such as chat oversight, extends into the teen years; once a child turns 13, Roblox hands most day-to-day settings to them while the parent keeps some oversight. Roblox has also been rolling out age-banded account types for younger players, with stricter defaults for children under 9, though exactly what applies varies by region.
Choose content and communication limits
From your linked account you can set:
- Content maturity. Roblox labels experiences by maturity (the current scale runs from Minimal through Restricted), and you choose the highest level your child's account can open. You can also block specific experiences by name.
- Communication. You can restrict or turn off chat, and control who is allowed to contact the account, from approved friends only down to nobody. Voice chat is a separate, age-gated feature; our guide on voice chat and age verification covers what unlocks at which age.
- Friends. You can review the friends list from your own device and remove or block contacts.
For a younger child, the safest starting point is the most restrictive option, loosened deliberately later if it makes sense.
Set screen time and spending limits
Two controls that did not exist in the old PIN system are worth switching on:
- Screen time. You can set a daily play limit, and the parent dashboard shows how much time the account has actually spent on the platform.
- Spending. You can set a monthly spending limit and get notifications about purchases. As of this writing the limit covers Robux and subscription purchases but not gift card redemptions, so Roblox gift cards remain a good way to give a fixed balance instead of a card on file. If you subscribe to Roblox Plus for the child, remember it renews on its own.
Talking through purchases in advance helps as much as any setting. Game passes and other in-experience items are final once bought, as we cover in what is a game pass.
Keep the account itself in your hands
Controls only help if the account stays yours to manage. Make sure the child's account is tied to an email address a parent controls, so password resets and security alerts come to you, and turn on two-step verification; the steps are in our guide to setting up 2FA.
Check it holds
After setup, open your parent dashboard and confirm the child's account appears with the limits you chose, then have the child try to change a restricted setting from their side to confirm it is actually locked. Revisit the controls every few months: children's needs change, and Roblox has been adding new options at a steady pace.
Parental controls are not a substitute for the occasional conversation, and they cannot vet every person your child meets in a game. What they do well is narrow the room for surprises: what can be opened, who can make contact, and what can be spent. For the fuller picture, including reporting, blocking, and privacy, read the Roblox safety guide for parents and browse the rest of the Safety guides.