Check if a user is 13+ or under 13

[amandasillv]

Hey there,

I am making a game but i want to check if the player is 13 or older. How could I do that?

[DasKairo (Cairo)]

I’m not sure if this is relevant but:

I’m pretty sure you can create a Age Restriction to your game by going to the Creator Dashboard, Your game, then pressing on Questionnaire, from there you have to enter details about your game for it to determine what Age Restriction it should be.

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Other than that, I’m not sure why you would want to know the Player’s Age (unless Account Age, in which you do Player.AccountAge), Kind of weird don’t you think?

[amandasillv]

for some reason I am not able to perform the Age Restriction form in the creator dashboard. I would like to know if the player’s account has <13 as an extra prevention

[DasKairo (Cairo)]

I don’t believe so as that is Private Information,

Depending on what Birthday they set, There isn’t a real way to check if they are 13 or younger.

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For Example, someone may have been born on lets say: January 25th, 2014, But they can change their Birthday to something like: December 12th, 1980
They are able to bypass the Age Restriction like that

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However on the Topic of the Questionnaire, I believe you would have to wait a while or modify your game a bit for you to be able to do so, Here is what the Page will look like if you do get access:

(Random Experience btw)

[amandasillv]

I have had this experience for a while and until now I have not been allowed to complete the questionnaire. This experience contains more than 600 versions

edit 1: experience are public

[DasKairo (Cairo)]

I’m not sure if this Topic is helpful:

New Compliance Tool: Experience Questionnaire

Hey developers, We are beginning to roll out a new process you can choose to use as a way to check if your experience is compliant with the latest policies around the world. Developers of any experiences with over 100,000 visits can now fill out a short Experience Questionnaire. The Experience Questionnaire contains two simple questions about the content of your experience and, based on your responses, will provide you with information regarding any applicable policy restrictions. Dynamic Co…

[alphadoggy111 (jos)]

To my knowledge I don’t think there are official APIs to achieve this. However, you might fight luck with hacky methods. Ethically speaking I’d advise against this and question your use case, categorizing players by age could be somewhat of a red flag.

If you’re looking to filter this based on showing in game things for 13+ users, (ie. Twitter handles for twitter codes), you might find luck with PolicyService. To my knowledge, only 13+ users have access to view Discord links, twitter links and other links on Roblox so this may work for your use case anyways.

Here is a link to PolicyService.

Here is a bit of example code.

local PS = game:GetService("PolicyService")


game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	local success, res = pcall(function()
		return PS:GetPolicyInfoForPlayerAsync(plr)
	end)
	
	if success and res then
		local ExtLinkTable = res["AllowedExternalLinkReferences"]
		if #ExtLinkTable == 0 then
			print("Player can't view external links.")
		else
			print("Player can view some or all external links.")
		end
	else
		warn("Something went wrong with getting policy information for "..plr.Name)
	end
end)

Please keep in mind if you’re using this for explicitly telling if a player is 13+, it may be inaccurate at times as players in certain regions can’t view external links regardless of age, or the age is set higher.