Add the Bubble Chat toggle back to game settings

[MasterDaniel]

As a Roblox developer, it is currently impossible to toggle bubble chat on/off through the website or in studio. This used to be a setting but seems to have been lost during the migration of settings from the site to the studio menu.

Previously…

Here are some other threads that point it out as a problem:

How to Enable/Disable/Change Classic Chat and Bubble Chat

UPDATE: This is the new way to enable Bubble Chat. The new Reworked bubble chat system also has a toggle again so its easier to enable/disable in studio under chat The Big Bubble Chat Rework Note: You can have the old system enabled while using the new system incase the new system doesn’t load it will use the old system This is how to enable the older Bubble Chat system by adding this code inside a local script, then place it in ReplicatedFirst. local ChatService = game:GetService("Chat…

Enable bubble chat?

Hey, how do I enable the bubble chat for my place? I looked through all the place settings and game settings, but I couldn’t find it… Didn’t it used to be in the ‘Permission’ settings?

Both of these threads suggest changing it via code. This is undesirable as the vast majority of players will not know this (currently) the way to change it. By default new places have bubble chat turned off which makes the lack of a toggle more acute.

This thread is a mix of bug/feature request but assuming it was intentionally dropped I’ve posted this in feature requests.

[Kiansjet]

The vast majority of players aren’t developers.

You figured it out. New devs will be able to.

@Seranok

Hey developers,

We are doing a strategic initiative to reduce confusion between places and games. As part of this, we audited the Configure Place page and decided to remove two unnecessary place settings:

Chat Type

This setting was used to control whether bubble chat appears above players’ heads. You can now achieve the same result by using this API:

local Chat = game:GetService("Chat")
local function setUpChatWindow()
    return { BubbleChatEnabled = true }
end
Chat:RegisterChatCallback(Enum.ChatCallbackType.OnCreatingChatWindow, setUpChatWindow)

Note that if your game already uses bubble chat, we will continue to respect the web setting behind the scenes so you do not need to change anything.

[MasterDaniel]

Oh damn I completely missed that announcement. Disappointing for sure, if they’ve removed it for good reason I doubt they’re going to add it back

But yeah players with no coding experience are going to get confused when they can’t figure out how to make bubble chat appear.

[blutreefrog (blue)]

i’m having an issue with this where using game.Players:SetChatStyle(Enum.ChatStyle.ClassicAndBubble)
in the command bar in studio doesn’t actually enable bubble chat. in online and in testing my game, the chat style just reverts back to classic.

is this caused by the same thing? i don’t want to fork the chat script but if that’s the only way to make the API work then I will

[Seranok]

You can do this without forking the script. See the thread Kiansjet linked to earlier: Removing Chat Type & Avatar Appearance Override Settings