Roblox is one of the world’s most popular online gaming platforms. It is a community where you can play games or create one using the Roblox studio. That makes it special and probably why many people are on the platform. In addition, it is available for download on various platforms, including computers, smartphones, tablets, Xbox One, Oculus Rift, and others.
While Roblox is mainly for gaming, it has other features that suggest parents should monitor kids on the app. On the app, you can make friends, join groups, send messages, and much more. Although Roblox chat is filtered to prevent personal information and inappropriate words based on the user’s age, it is still advisable to monitor your kid’s account, as they can bypass the bot.
Roblox has an inbuilt parental control feature to ensure parents can monitor their kids on the platform. When enabled, you can customize protections on your child’s account, such as billing, account info, app permission, account information, and others.
How to set up parental control on Roblox
- Launch Roblox on your child’s phone and log in.
- Tap on more at the bottom-right corner.
- Scroll down and click on Settings.
- Tap Parental controls.
- On the drop-down menu, under My Settings, select Account info.
- Tap on “Add Email.”
- Add your email account on the box that appears on the screen, and tap Add Email.
- Open your email and verify using the link sent to you. Relaunch the Roblox app after the confirmation for the changes to reflect.
- Head to the Parental Control tab from Settings and the drop-down menu. You can control things like Account Info, Security, Privacy, Payment method, Parental Controls, Notification, and App permission.
Unfortunately, you might be unable to monitor your child’s messages on Roblox. The app has automatic filter for each age category. Players from 12 or younger have their chats filtered by inappropriate words and behaviour. You are likely to use more phrases as a 13-year-old, or older, but personal information or inappropriate content is restricted. Luckily, it doesn’t matter if the account is private or public, the restrictions work on all accounts.
Nevertheless, any account can enable Parental Control irrespective of the player’s age. That is important as it allows parents to restrict who can chat with their kids on the platform. In addition, you can disable some chat features, including who can invite them to VIP servers and who can follow them into games.
Of course, your kids can disable these changes, but to make sure that does not happen, you can lock the parental control after setting it up. You probably did while setting it up the first time, but if you did not, follow the steps below.
- Head to the app and navigate to Parental Control
- Toggle on “Parent PIN.”
- Enter a PIN code and save your changes.
- Now, your child needs this code before making any changes to the parental controls.
Who can message my child on Roblox?
Roblox allows parents to restrict certain people from messaging their kids. You can do this by following the steps below.
- Head to your child’s account and tap on the More button.
- Select Settings and Tap on Privacy.
- You can choose the best settings for who can message your child on the platform.
Spy apps for monitoring Roblox
There are not many spy apps that monitor Roblox. Since the app has an automatic filter depending on the player’s age, there are not much needs to monitor. However, some parental control apps promise to do a better job for parents who wish to monitor their child’s activities on the gaming platform.
Bark: One of the best parental control apps on the internet. They recently added support for Roblox, meaning you can now monitor your child’s inbox. The app has filters, and you can add words to it, and you will get an alert when your child uses those words.
Aside from monitoring messages, the app detects harmful searches. It allows the parents to see the games their children are playing on the app and the groups they interact with. We recommend the app as it is a great solution to track your child’s online activities from a single dashboard.
Conclusion
Enabling Parental Control on Roblox is the best way to ensure your kids use the platform properly. Using a third-party parental control app might not do a great job, as only a few supports monitoring the gaming platform. You can follow the steps above to restrict some actions on your children’s account. In addition, enable a PIN lock so your kids cannot reverse the changes you have made to their account.
