Roblox, the popular gaming and creation platform for children, is updating its parental controls to enable users to better manage their child’s activity on the app. In what the company is a calling a “major update” to its parental and safety systems,

Roblox, the digital games platform popular with children and tweens, has introduced what it called "significant updates" to parental controls and will stop children younger than 13 from directly messaging other gamers.

After child safety criticisms, the gaming platform is adding new restrictions on young kids' usage and parental controls.

Roblox has also launched new parental accounts that enable parents to monitor and limit their children's activity on the platform.

Roblox is starting to roll out some recently-announced child safety features, and the updates include some new limitations for how users under 13 can communicate on the platform. Beginning Monday, users younger than 13 won’t be able to DM players outside of games or experiences on Roblox.