Roblox Age Verification Adjustments Defined: How you can Get Round Them (and Why You Should not) – Gameplay, Leaks & Tech

In case you’re a Roblox participant below the age of 21, it received’t be information to you that issues have taken a flip in 2026. Whereas earlier than you possibly can chat to one and all, now your conversational choices are restricted within the excessive.

This new regime started in January, and doesn’t look more likely to finish any time quickly. 

Below strain from governments, mother and father, and litigious security advocates, Roblox has reluctantly agreed to drop its simply trickable birthday-based age verification obstacles in favor of technical strategies which you could’t circumvent with out taking an ill-advised stroll on the wild facet. 

How the New System Works

The brand new Roblox age verification system works by estimating your age primarily based on a selfie that you just submit. Utilizing intelligent AI wizardry, the platform appears at numerous facial markers to put you in one among six totally different age brackets: below 9, 9-12, 13-15, 16-17, 18-20, and 21+. 

Then, it solely allows you to talk with different folks in the identical bracket.

On the face of it, this looks like a reasonably good thought. Positive, it implies that 12-year-old Peter can not chat together with his IRL bestie, 13-year-old Frederick, however on the plus facet neither little one could be contacted by 57-year-old Raymond. 

Gamers below 9 can solely play with parental consent, which could be fiddly and irritating for gamers and guardians alike. In the meantime, gamers 13 and over can submit government-issued ID to override errors within the platform’s age-estimation. 

This similar group can make the most of Trusted Connections, a characteristic that enables them to speak with real-life contacts. 

The Issues

The principle difficulty for a lot of is that it’s a must to submit biometric knowledge. Whereas Roblox assures customers that their knowledge is protected, there’s no query that many younger gamers – and their guardians – shall be uncomfortable with the concept of Roblox snapping an image of their face. 

Superficially at the very least, asking youngsters to submit biometric knowledge appears like an odd technique to safeguard their privateness. 

And even when you resolve to make the leap, regardless of your reservations, you’ll solely be capable of chat with a really explicit group of pals in a slender age band, leaving others – or certainly you – out within the chilly.  

Plus, typically the AI will get it mistaken, figuring out you as older or youthful than you truly are and due to this fact locking you out of your peer group so far as chat is worried. In case you’re 13 or over you will get previous this by sharing much more personal info with Roblox, however youthful gamers haven’t any such recourse. 

How you can Get Round It

You received’t prefer it, however the reply is: don’t. 

For all that Roblox’s new age verification system is fiddly, unnerving, and altogether imperfect, it’s there for a motive. On-line security measures are vastly essential in precept, even when you don’t really feel like they’re benefiting you. They’re additionally the regulation. 

There are alternatives for gamers keen to step exterior the authorized pointers that maintain us all protected. You’ll be able to attempt submitting a selfie of any individual else, or getting maintain of an grownup’s id paperwork.

However these workarounds might effectively get you banned from Roblox altogether. 

And grounded. 

Worse nonetheless, undermining this coverage may simply make Roblox that little bit much less protected in future, exposing youngsters who’re youthful and extra weak than you to the chance of actual hurt.