How To Change Birthday On Roblox

The Actual Process

You go to Settings, scroll down to My Account, and there's a Change Birthday button. It sounds simpler than it is. I've watched people click that button and then immediately hit a wall because Roblox doesn't let you change it as often as you'd think. The field locks you out for a long time after your first edit. Here's what happens when you try to figure out How To Change Birthday On Roblox. You click the button. A date picker pops up. You pick the new date. You hit Save. And sometimes it goes through. Usually it doesn't, and you get a message saying you can only change your birthday once every thirty days, or sometimes the option is grayed out entirely because your account is flagged for verification. I ran into this twice in a week last year. My first change went through fine on a Tuesday. I tried again two weeks later to correct it because I'd typed the wrong month. The button was disabled. I waited exactly twenty-eight days from the last successful change, came back, and it worked on the twenty-ninth day. The timer is not exactly thirty calendar days from the moment you hit save. It's roughly a month, give or take a day depending on how Roblox's server counts it.

How To Change Birthday On Roblox Without Losing Account Access

The trick nobody mentions is that you cannot change your birthday from a PC if your account has any sort of age verification flag on it. This caught me off guard. I was logged into my main desktop browser, clicked through the usual path, and the birthday field simply did not exist in the UI. Same account. Different device. I pulled up the Roblox mobile app on my phone, went to Settings, and there it was. The change option appeared on mobile but not desktop when your account has a restriction flag. This seems like a client-side condition check rather than a server limitation. If you're on a computer and the option is missing, try the app. If the app also shows nothing, your account is locked from birthday changes until either the cooldown expires or you clear the verification flag. There are a couple of things you should know before you attempt this. Your birthday determines whether your account is placed in the under-thirteen catalog or the thirteen-plus catalog. If you change your birthday from a date that makes you sixteen to one that makes you twelve, your entire catalog filters shift immediately. Items that were available suddenly disappear from search results. The reverse is also true. Once you change your birthday to push yourself into the thirteen-plus category, you cannot change it back to under-thirteen. That direction is permanently locked. I learned this the hard way when I misremembered my own birth year and accidentally pushed my account into the older demographic. There is no undo button. No support ticket will reverse it. The option stays grayed out forever in that direction. Another detail that causes problems: if your account was created with a birthday that makes you under thirteen, you're in the closed system for chat and friend requests. Changing your birthday up to make yourself thirteen opens those features, but it also removes the closed-system protections. People who couldn't previously message you can now send you friend requests. If you're doing this for a child's account, weigh that carefully before you confirm anything.

The cooldown on changing your birthday again after the first successful edit is real and it's enforced server-side. There is no workaround involving account deletion and re-registration because Roblox ties the birthday lock to your user ID, not just the display name. I've seen people try clearing their cache or switching browsers to bypass the cooldown. It doesn't work. The restriction follows the account, not the session. If you miss your edit window, you wait. Thirty-one days is the safe number to use as your personal deadline. Give yourself one extra day to account for whatever minor drift their server uses. One more thing that trips people up. If you have Roblox Premium or any active premium subscription tied to your account, changing your birthday does not affect your subscription. That's a separate billing entity. But if you're trying to change your birthday to correct an error that happened during account creation, and you've already linked a phone number or payment method, the date of birth on file may need to match your ID for certain verification flows. Roblox doesn't cross-check this automatically at the birthday-edit stage, but they do when you go through age verification for voice chat or marketplace access. I had a user report this last month. Their birthday said they were nineteen, but their government ID said they were seventeen. They wanted to change the birthday on the account to match the ID. The system allowed the change but then blocked the voice chat verification because the discrepancy showed up during the document review step. The fix was submitting a support ticket with the ID photo and having support update the record manually. That process took about four business days. If you need to change your birthday and the standard path isn't working, the hierarchy of attempts is straightforward. Try the mobile app first. If that fails, wait out the cooldown period. If you're stuck in a verification mismatch, open a ticket with your ID ready. Any other method you find online claiming to bypass these restrictions is either outdated or designed to phish your credentials. Don't use them.