The Problem With Age on Roblox
Roblox locks your displayed age at the moment you create the account. This is not something you can flip back and forth at will, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling you a broken solution. The reason is simple. When you put in a birthdate during sign-up, Roblox classifies your account as either a child under 13 or a teen/adult 13 and older, and that classification controls your chat filters, who can message you, what games appear in your feed, and whether your profile shows up in search results. Get it wrong on day one and you are stuck with it until you go through their support channel. I learned this the hard way back in 2019. I made a alt account for my younger cousin and accidentally typed the wrong year because I was half-asleep. Within an hour the account was locked behind the under-13 restrictions, no 10-digit PIN, no friend list, practically unusable. I spent three days chasing Roblox Support, filling out form after form, sending screenshots of his birth certificate, waiting for an email reply that finally came 11 business days later. They changed the date, but the whole process was a mess. That is the baseline reality of how this works.
How To Change Your Age Roblox
The official path runs through Account Settings, not through any game or third-party tool. Here is the exact sequence: Log into your account on the website, not the app. Navigate to Settings by clicking the gear icon in the upper right. Under the My Account tab, look for the section labeled with your current birthdate. There is a button that says Change Birthdate. Click it and enter the correct date. Hit confirm. That is the process for a basic change. It is simple, but there are two conditions that most people miss. First, if your current account is classified as under 13 and you are trying to move it to 13 or older, Roblox requires parental verification. You cannot just type in a new date and walk away. The system will ask your parent or guardian to provide their email and approve the change through their own Roblox account. If you do not have a parent who can do this, the change will not go through, plain and simple.
Second, if you are already 13 or older and want to change your age downward to under 13, the system often blocks the change outright. I tested this on my own account. I tried moving from 15 down to 11 and got an error message saying the change could not be completed. Roblox does not let adults masquerade as children to bypass their social filters. That is a firm line they enforce.
Why People Get Stuck
The biggest issue is the parental verification step. It sounds straightforward until you try it. Your parent needs to log into their own Roblox account, open their email inbox, click the verification link from Roblox, and approve the change. If your parent does not have a Roblox account, does not check email regularly, or lives in a different time zone where the approval window expires, you are sitting on hold for weeks. I have seen support tickets go 18 days without a reply because the parent never clicked the link within the 72-hour window. Another edge case involves accounts linked to school or group systems. If your account was created through a Roblox for Education program or is tied to a verified group, the age is locked by the administrator. You cannot change it yourself. The admin has to submit a modification request, and even then, it is not guaranteed. I ran into this with a student organization I moderated. Three members wanted to update their ages and all three hit the same wall. The admin panel had no age change option. We ended up creating new accounts and migrating their inventory manually.
What Does Not Work
Do not download any tool that claims to change your age. These are scams. You will hand over your password and receive nothing. Roblox does not expose an API for age modification. There is no cheat, no workaround through Discord, no secret menu in the app. Anyone selling a "Roblox age changer" is running a phishing operation. I watched a friend lose his main account to one of these in 2022. He entered his credentials on a fake site, got banned within hours for suspicious activity, and could not recover it. That is the risk of going outside the official path. You also cannot simply delete and recreate your account to reset the age. Roblox tracks device fingerprints, IP ranges, and payment history. If you make a new account with the same device and email, the system flags it. You will end up with a suspended account and a lost purchase history. It is not worth it.
The Realistic Timeline
If you are changing an under-13 account to 13+, plan for 3 to 10 business days. The parental verification email arrives quickly, usually within an hour, but the actual approval and database update takes time. If you are changing from teen to child, expect it to fail. If you are just correcting a typo and you are already over 13, the change often goes through instantly. That is the variance you are working with. Keep a screenshot of your original birthdate and any confirmation emails from support. I always save these. When the ticket comes back and they say they updated it, you have proof in case the display does not refresh on your end. Roblox's front end sometimes caches the old date for up to 48 hours after the backend change completes. Wait it out before submitting a second ticket.
One Detail Nobody Talks About
If you change your age and it moves you from child to teen, your existing friends who are still classified as children will not automatically see you in their friend list. The platform separates the two groups for privacy reasons. You will need to re-send friend requests or accept them again. It is a minor inconvenience but it catches people off guard. I lost about 40 friends across two accounts when I made that transition and did not understand why they disappeared from my list. Checking the requests tab took me five minutes to fix, but the confusion was real. The system is rigid because the regulations are rigid. Roblox operates under COPPA in the United States and similar laws internationally. They cannot give you a free pass to flip your classification whenever it suits you. The process exists, it just is not fast and it is not foolproof. Enter the correct date the first time if you can. If you must change it, go through the official settings, have your parent ready with their email, and allow at least a week for everything to land.
