Experience Chat for Console Now Available with TextChatService

We’re excited to announce that experience chat is now rolling out on Xbox and PlayStation — one of the most requested console features from you!

With this update, console users can seamlessly communicate with other users on mobile, web, desktop, and VR directly within your experience, making collaboration and social interaction easier than ever. Imagine a group of friends — some on their Xbox, others on mobile — teaming up in a thrilling 5v5 match in Rivals, all while staying connected in real time.

By enabling experience chat, you not only enhance communication within your experience but also potentially boost player engagement, fostering stronger communities across all devices. This milestone reinforces our commitment to offering a seamless experience across all supported devices. As we continue to roll out experience chat, it will be available to all console users by the end of March.

Accessing Experience Chat

PlayStation & Xbox

Next Steps for Creators

With experience chat becoming available on consoles, creators already using TextChatService can seamlessly enable communication for their console users. This ensures console users can communicate with others across devices, providing a more unified user experience.

If your experience does not currently use any chat functionality, now is a great time to consider enabling it. Experience chat helps drive engagement by allowing players to communicate and collaborate in real time. More details on how to use TextChatService can be found here.

If your experience still uses legacy chat, experience chat will not be available on consoles, as legacy chat is not supported on console. As a result, there may be a temporary inconsistency where an experience has legacy chat on mobile, web, and desktop but not on console.

To provide a consistent experience for your users, you must migrate to TextChatService before April 30, 2025, when legacy chat will be fully deprecated across all platforms. For guidance on making the switch, follow these steps outlined here to migrate to TextChatService and unlock chat functionality for your console users.

Key Dates to Remember

  • March 10, 2025: Experience chat continues to roll out on consoles. Experiences using TextChatService will gain experience chat functionality for console users as the feature gradually expands to all players.

  • April 30, 2025: Legacy chat is deprecated. All experiences must migrate to TextChatService to ensure continued chat functionality.

Our Commitment to Safety

Experience chat on Roblox is filtered to prevent inappropriate content and personally identifiable information from being visible on the platform. Console users can use the Report Abuse feature located within the Roblox menu to report inappropriate content. They can also block another user to prevent them from chatting with them in an experience. We also offer a variety of parental controls to parents and caregivers to help manage their child’s experience on the platform, including experience chat. For more information on parental controls, you can learn more here.

Moving Forward

Adding experience chat to consoles is an important milestone in our commitment to making Roblox the best place to create, connect, and play across devices. By migrating to TextChatService, you unlock the full potential of experience chat for your console users, enhancing communication, driving engagement, and ensuring your experience can adapt seamlessly for all devices. If you have any questions or need assistance migrating to TextChatService, visit our Creator Hub.

We’d love to hear from you. Please share your thoughts and any feature requests in the comments below to help us continue improving the tools and capabilities available to you.

FAQs

Why should I migrate to TextChatService for console users?

  • Migrating to TextChatService ensures your experience supports communication for all your users, including those on consoles, improving engagement and accessibility across devices. If you have any questions or need assistance migrating to TextChatService, visit our Creator Hub or connect with the community in the forums.

Once experience chat is enabled, how do users chat within experiences on Xbox and PlayStation?

  • Users can chat with other Roblox users on PlayStation and Xbox using experience chat within supported Roblox experiences. For more details on how to chat on PlayStation and Xbox.

When is voice chat coming to console?

  • We’re actively working on bringing voice chat to console, but we don’t have an exact release date to share yet. Stay tuned for updates as we continue to improve and expand communication options for all devices on Roblox!

Does experience chat include any platform-specific features for consoles?

  • Yes, experience chat on consoles includes platform-specific features such as a virtual cursor for navigation and predictive text input, which suggests words as you type to make communication faster and easier.

When is Party coming to console?

  • Similar to voice chat, we’re working on bringing Party to console as part of our efforts to enhance social features on Roblox across all devices. While we don’t have an exact release date yet, we’ll share updates as soon as they’re available!

How can I provide feedback on experience chat or request additional features?

  • We would love to hear from you! Please share your feedback and feature requests in the comments section below to help us improve the console experience.

Some of my users have mentioned that experience chat is available on mobile devices, but not console? What is going on?

  • Experience chat on consoles requires your experience to use TextChatService, as legacy chat is not supported on consoles. If your experience still uses legacy chat, users on mobile, desktop, and web will see chat functionality, but console users will not.

    To ensure a consistent experience for all users across platforms, we recommend migrating to TextChatService. You can find detailed steps on how to migrate here.

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14 year old me would be going insane for this feature. Some years later and Xbox finally has chat. I remember those days. About the deprecation of legacy chat though, does that mean that every experience who hasn’t migrated will no longer have chat? There are some games I still play that aren’t updated anymore, will you no longer be able to chat on those games anymore?

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This is definitely one of the greatest improvements to the console experience in the last couple years, im glad to see you guys at Roblox finally managed to bring it to fruition!

Hopefully sometime in the future we will see support for group pages on console, but only time will tell. :slight_smile:

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The update we’ve been waiting for for YEARS finally got added!?!?!?!?

Advanced graphics settings would be 100x better than the ability to chat, hopefully it happens sometime in the future but it’s looking grim.

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literally every console player on roblox:

jokes aside this is probably the biggest thing for console players in the past… basically forever

awesome!!!

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It’s official, Roblox has peaked as a company, it doesn’t get better than this :pray:

Glad it’s out after a few roadmap delays, console users are shaking right now.

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so no more “i’m on console cant chat” ugcs?

amazing update, don’t have much else to say other than the obligatory cynical “is this all a ruse to get us all to switch away from the obviously perfect legacy chat”

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Happy to see this feature released, only question is if anything needs to done on the developers end if they already utilize TextChatService?

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Two banger features in a row!
First Pathfinding update, And now Chat support on Console! Very nice.

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Took you long enough.

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If all an experience did was use the standard legacy chat without any interesting integrations / customizations we will be able to automatically migrate it without issue. The more interesting chat related things it did the more manual updating it will take for it to still have chat.

Read / follow the main thread for more details: Update on Legacy Chat Deprecation and TextChatService Migration

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Fix the performance issues of the new TextChatService before you force this onto every game. You literally need industry-leading single-core scoring CPU’s to mitigate the issue, and less than 1% of Roblox’s demographic have CPUs capable of processing your system without incurring a frame stutter.

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I KNEW THE ROLLOUT PAUSE WAS FOR A BIGGER LAUNCH, THANK YOU ROBLOX FOR GIVING US THIS!!! :happy4: :happy4: :happy4:

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Will this feature be available to developers looking into allowing console players to type in a textbox? For custom chat implementations to anything else

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Love the update a lot! Only one minor issue; any chat messages altered with .OnChatWindowAdded does not apply console text scaling for chat. Hope that this can be fixed!


For now, I can look into a workaround that scales everything up by 1.5x manually for console

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PSA:

  • They still haven’t fixed many major bugs and performance problems.
  • You still have no way of cross-server communication.
  • You still don’t have a reliable way of detecting chat from the Server.
  • You still don’t have a way of logging Chat on the Server.

Also, there are no mentions on how to integrate Chat for Console with custom UIs, and if it’s okay in ToS to provide Chat for consoles through other means instead of TextChatService. (Yes, it’s against ToS now if you don’t use TextChatService for Chat, but would it be okay now to provide Chat for Consoles through custom means?)

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Is this only available through the default UI and ChatInputBarConfiguration.TextBox?

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Us console players are finally getting the love we deserve!!11!11!!!

[Unrelated Question]: Resize handles aren’t showing when selecting UI elements in studio… anyone have a fix?

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Honestly just ask, you won’t get a response if you passively aggressively ask a question (without asking it).

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