How To Know If A User Is 13+

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#1

Hello fellow Developers!
I just came up with a question, so basically there’s some features that are only for 13+ Users, like if I put things only 13+ Users can see I’ll have to lock it for <13 Users, but another way is making something toggleable, but the problem is that <13 Users can simply turn it on, the only thing would be to check if the User is 13+, but I don’t know how to do that, so I came here to ask, thanks in advance!

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#3

It doesn’t really help, sorry :confused:

#4

By Itself, Its not really possible to check if they are actually over 13 as people can simply lie about their age. but you can use PolicyService or have a set Age Recommendation.

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#5

And how would PolicyService work?

Also I know they can simply lie, you can’t do anything about that

#6

You can use PolicyService to do this

local PolicyService = game:GetService("PolicyService")

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
   local success, result = pcall(function()
      return PolicyService:GetPolicyInfoForPlayerAsync(player)
   end)

   assert(success, result)

   if result.AreAdsAllowed then
      print("User Under 13")
   else
      print("User 13 or older")
   end
end)
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#7

So this would check if ads are allowed for the User and if they aren’t it will say they are under 13?

#8

uuhhh roblox prevents users under 13 from seeing ads and I used it to check if user is under 13 or not

#9

Okay, but if I’m it wrong in certain Countries you don’t see ads by default, right?

So for taht. It would say they are under 13? I might be saying something wrong tho

#10

I might try if I have a VPN, because I’m not living in one of these countries…

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#11

This probably shouldn’t be done anyways; Roblox isn’t allowed to give info like this due to internet safety laws.

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#12

Player:GetUnder13() is locked for usage, so there isn’t a guaranteed way of checking.
@VSCPlays interesting method, are you sure it works as the OP wants it?

#13

yes i’m sure it does work as @Dede_4242 wants it

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#14

I think AllowedExternalLinkReferences is best suited for that.

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#15

uuhhh it’s a table and they might have some disabled, also it returns a table so you must use for i, v in pairs(table) do or for i, v in ipairs(table) do or even for i, v in table do and i must add a hashtag before the table to get the amount