Roblox has been continually adding new features to their platform in the aims of helping protect its youngest users. Today they announced remote management, which allows parents and caregivers to adjust controls and review their child’s activity even if they aren’t physically together. It also means parents have to have the app downloaded. (Something that Snapchat is trying to push as well as they encourage parents to track their kid’s location via the app).
To link their accounts, parents will have to prove that they’re an adult by uploading a picture of their ID or a credit card. The ID will be hard to fake, but so many kids have cards these days — we wonder if Roblox will be able to tell the difference.
Once accounts are linked, parents can see their child’s average screen time over the past week, as well as their child’s friends list. They can also set daily screen-time limits that prevent access once they’ve been reached.
Roblox is also updating their content labels to keep kids and parents informed about the kind of thing they’ll see in games — from “minimal” to “restricted.”
Want more help with Roblox? Check out our app review, our blog post discussing its various threats, and our tech guide.
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