Trusted Friends and Connections on Roblox: How the Approval System Works

Roblox uses a handful of overlapping terms for the people your child interacts with: friends, connections, trusted friends. They aren’t interchangeable, and the differences decide which chat features actually turn on for a younger account.

The Terms Roblox Uses

Connections is the current umbrella term for people your child is linked to on Roblox. Within that broader list, a smaller circle can be marked as Trusted Friends, a tier that unlocks additional chat options, particularly for accounts under 13, that an ordinary connection doesn’t get.

How a Child Gets a Trusted Friend (Under 13)

For younger accounts, adding someone as a trusted friend isn’t a one-click decision the child makes alone. The request routes to the parent account linked through parental controls for approval. If a parent doesn’t act on it within the window Roblox gives, the request doesn’t quietly get approved by default, it simply needs to be sent again. Nothing is trusted until a parent actually says yes.

What Each Chat Type Unlocks

• ✓Experience chat, the public in-game chat visible to others in that session, can be switched on or off independent of everything else.
• ✓Direct chat, one-on-one messaging, is its own separate toggle.
• ✓Party chat (available from roughly age 9) can be limited to all friends, trusted friends only, or no one.
• ✓Party voice chat (available from roughly age 13) can be limited to trusted friends only or no one.

Age thresholds and labels like these are the kind of detail Roblox adjusts over time, so treat the roughly above literally and check the current settings screen for your child’s exact account before assuming a number is still accurate.

What Parents Should Actually Do With This

• ✓Treat every trusted-friend approval request as a real decision, not a notification to clear quickly.
• ✓Ask your child who the person is in real life before approving, the same way you would ask about a new friend showing up at the house.
• ✓Check the connections and trusted-friends list periodically. It only grows if someone keeps approving requests.
• ✓Remember you can remove or block anyone from either list at any time, it isn’t a one-way decision.