Memorable Meta Horizon experiences for your family. Peace of mind for you.

All apps in the Meta Horizon Store are provided with familiar and locally relevant age and content ratings by the International Age Rating Coalition (IARC). All app titles in the Meta Horizon Store must show age and content ratings assigned by IARC.

• By default, children and teens are blocked from downloading content that is deemed inappropriate for their age
  
• Within Meta Horizon Worlds, each world will also have a world rating: ages 10+, ages 13+, or ages 18+. Only people ages 18 and up can see and visit worlds and events rated ages 18+.
  
• As a parent or guardian, you can decide what content your child can access

You also have access to tools such as:

• The ability to flag apps or worlds for inappropriate content
• Casting, so you can see what your child is doing in their headset on a phone, browser or TV screen
  
• Passcodes to restrict access to certain apps on shared headsets
  

For parent-managed Meta accounts, as parents and guardians, you have the ability to:

• Control whether your child can download or use an app or visit a world. You can block access at any time
  
• Approve any purchase requiring a credit card
  
• Permit or deny access to any world with a certain rating, or choose what worlds to approve one by one
  
• Ensure that certain content categories like gambling, weapons, and sexual content are automatically filtered from view when your child accesses the internet Browser on their headset
  

With supervision for teens, you can:

• See which apps your teen uses, purchases, downloads or is gifted
  
• Allow or block access to apps
  
• Prevent your teen from accessing content from a PC via their Meta Quest headset
• Monitor and understand your teen’s use of Meta AI (our intelligent assistant)
  

Meta sets clear standards for acceptable behavior through our Code of Conduct for Virtual Experiences, which prohibits people from impersonating others and engaging in conduct or sharing content that may lead them to physical harm. In addition, child and teen account settings in Meta Horizon Worlds automatically:

• Limit interactions with people your child or teen doesn’t know
• Are set to private, so all follow requests need to be approved by your child or you as their parent or guardian
• Set up personal boundary, an invisible boundary within Horizon Worlds that prevents others from coming too close
• Set up voice chat limitations: Your children only hear contacts you approve, while teens automatically have their voice channel set to people they know within Horizon Worlds

You and your family also have access to tools such as:

• Blocking, muting and reporting, with reports reviewed by a combination of technology and trained safety specialists
• Pause, which lets you all take a moment away from others inside Horizon Worlds and their surroundings
• Poll to remove so that world communities can remove disruptive people

For parent-managed Meta accounts, you have the ability to:

• Require approval for all follow requests on behalf of your child
• See a list of your child’s followers and who they follow
• Individually approve anyone your child can chat, call and invite to join

With supervision for teens, you can:

• See a list of your teen’s followers and who they follow
• Turn off social features including calls, chats, Messenger and posting to Facebook
• See, adjust and lock Horizon Worlds safety features like voice channel and personal boundary settings

To support your family’s privacy, Meta automatically sets all parent-managed and teen accounts to the following settings:

• Private Profile is on: This means your child or teen must approve requests to follow them
• Active Status is set to offline: This means no one can tell if your child or teen is currently using their device. Their Active Status won’t reflect if they are online or were recently online. (Note: people who are using an app or experience at the same time as your child or teen may be able to see your child or teen’s presence in that app or experience)

Parent-managed Meta accounts further address child privacy by:

• Auto-generating your child’s profile image so it appears as a gray shadow or outline
• Giving you as a parent sole control over privacy settings including activity and active status

With supervision for teens, you can:

• See if your teen changes their privacy settings
• See your teen’s followers and who they follow

At Meta, we understand the importance of balancing time spent online with daily life. To help you and your family strike this balance, you have access to the following for parent-managed Meta accounts and teens with supervision:

• Daily time limit settings for headset use or Meta Horizon worlds, to limit the number of hours your child or teen can spend online
• Scheduled breaks so that your child or teen can’t use their headset or Meta Horizon Worlds during certain days or times
• Bedtime reminders to prompting your child or teen when it’s time for bed

Meta Quest has built-in safety features designed to help keep families physically safe, like boundary, which sets up virtual walls that appear when you get too close to the edge of your play area.

Make the experience the most comfortable for your child by choosing between Stationary boundary (staying in place) and Roomscale boundary (moving around) and identify the content that’s best suited for their movement and motion preferences by checking the comfort ratings (ranging from comfortable to intense) on all games and apps in the Meta Horizon Store.

In addition to these settings and offerings, we also recommend:

• Choosing a safe, unobstructed space and clearing the area of any objects before putting on your headset
• Taking regular breaks as advised in our Health and Safety Warnings (note that breaks are advised every 30 minutes when starting out and whenever there’s any level of discomfort)
• Allowing time to adjust both to the headset and the specific experience
• Starting on the more comfortable side of our comfort ratings scale while learning what you like when moving and looking around in an immersive experience