Roblox will let parents block people on their child’s friends list

Roblox is introducing caller parental controls that springiness parents much tools to power the radical their children speech to and the experiences they tin access, according to a blog post from main information serviceman Matt Kaufman.

The updates physique connected changes introduced past year, which included a peculiar benignant of relationship parents and caregivers tin usage to remotely negociate immoderate aspects of however a kid uses the platform, that followed reports highlighting times erstwhile Roblox failed to support children.

As portion of the caller updates, parents who person linked their relationship with a child’s volition beryllium capable to artifact and study circumstantial radical connected that child’s friends list. Kaufman says successful the station that kids nether 13 can’t unblock users that person been blocked by their parents, but they volition beryllium capable to petition if those friends tin beryllium unblocked.

Parents volition besides present beryllium capable to artifact their children from being capable to entree circumstantial experiences and games. Previously, they could lone artifact their kids from accessing experiences astatine a definite contented maturity level. As with blocked friends, children nether 13 won’t beryllium capable to unblock experiences until they are 13 oregon older, though they tin petition to entree them.

In addition, Kaufman says the institution volition present fto parents spot the 20 experiences their children person spent the astir clip successful implicit “the past week.”