Roblox announces new safety features including facial age verification to protect children from adult predators amid federal and state investigations.

Amid growing concerns about child safety, Roblox is rolling out age verification checks to prevent children from speaking with adults online.

Roblox is the first online gaming or communication platform to require facial age checks to access chat, establishing a new industry standard.  The rollo

If Roblox users want to chat on the online gaming platform, they’ll soon have to verify their age by providing a government ID or by letting an artificial intelligence age estimation tool photograph their face.

Roblox introduced an update to its player safety that included a tool that estimates a player’s age after taking a scan of their face.

An Oklahoma mother is suing Roblox, alleging the app puts kids in danger and enables predators. A news release from the Dolman Law Group said the lawsuit was filed on November 20, 2025, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, where Roblox Corporation is headquartered.