Roblox has a whole page of privacy settings, and most parents never open it. That’s a shame, because these toggles decide who can reach your child — and the safest defaults take about five minutes to set. Here’s what each one does and where to put it.
The Contact Settings (The Important Ones)
These control who can interact with your child. For each, the options are usually Everyone, Friends, Friends & Following, or No One.
- ✓Who can message me — set to Friends or No One for kids.
- ✓Who can chat with me in-app — Friends or No One for younger children.
- ✓Who can chat with me in games — Friends or No One for under-10s.
- ✓Who can join me — Friends, so strangers can’t drop into your child’s session.
- ✓Who can invite me to private servers — Friends or No One.
When in doubt, “Friends” is the sweet spot: your child can still play with people they’ve added, but strangers can’t initiate contact.
Voice Chat
Voice chat is age-gated and off by default for younger accounts. Keep it off unless your child is a teen and you’ve talked about it — voice is unfiltered, so it carries more risk than text.
Content Maturity
This isn’t contact, but it’s a privacy-adjacent gatekeeper: it decides which experiences load at all. Set it to Minimal or Mild for younger kids and higher-maturity games simply won’t open.
Activity and Visibility
- ✓Who can see my inventory — Friends or No One reduces what strangers learn about your child.
- ✓Who can see if I’m online / my join activity — Friends keeps their presence private.
Lock It With a Parent PIN
None of this sticks without the Parent PIN. Once your settings are where you want them, turn on the PIN so they can’t be changed back without your code.
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Safe defaults
Friends-only + PIN
For most kids: set every contact setting to Friends or No One, keep voice off, maturity at Minimal/Mild, and lock it with a Parent PIN. Five minutes closes almost every stranger-contact door.