Roblox adds age-based accounts for kids, expands parental controls

The next time a 7-year-old opens Roblox, the platform will not treat that account like a teenager’s profile. Roblox is introducing age-based accounts for minors, with Roblox Kids for ages 5 to 8 and Roblox Select for ages 9 to 15, a shift that will change what children can play, who they can talk to and how much control parents get over the experience.

The rollout begins in early June and is built around age checks, content ratings, ongoing moderation and expanded parental controls. Roblox said Kids accounts will have all communication turned off by default, while Select accounts will allow access only to content rated up to Moderate. Children will automatically move from Kids to Select at age 9, then from Select to a standard Roblox account at 16. Users who have not completed an age check will be limited to Minimal or Mild content and will have no communication access at all.

For families, the practical impact is immediate. Roblox said parents will be able to control content ratings, communications, screen time, spending limits and game blocking, and can also approve specific games that would not otherwise be available under a child’s default account type. The company said the point is to give parents more visibility into what children are playing and who they are interacting with, while still keeping the vast majority of familiar games available to age-checked users under 16 at launch.

Roblox is pairing the new account structure with a broader age-verification push. The company said more than 50% of its global daily active users and 65% of its U.S. daily active users had already completed an age check. In February, Roblox said 45% of its 144 million daily active users worldwide had done so using facial age estimation or ID verification. Roblox also said it became the first online gaming platform to require facial age checks to access chat.

The company has been building toward this for a while. It launched new parental controls in April 2025 and a global parent council in February 2026, and it says it now works with more than 20 child-safety and internet-safety organizations. Roblox said the new Kids and Select accounts will have distinct visual treatments in the app and will sit alongside dynamically updated catalogs of thousands of select games.

The timing is hard to miss. Roblox, based in San Mateo, California, is facing intensifying child-safety scrutiny, including lawsuits from at least seven states and individual cases consolidated into multidistrict litigation in federal court in California. For a platform with more than 151 million daily active users, the change is less a cosmetic safety tweak than a new operating model for how younger players move through Roblox’s social world.