META HORIZON AND META QUEST
Memorable Meta Horizon experiences for your family. Peace of mind for you.
Discover Meta Horizon and Meta Quest parental supervision controls — a set of tools designed to establish a level of supervision that’s right for you and your family.
NEXT GENERATION EXPERIENCES
Redefining what’s possible
Meta Horizon
Meta Horizon is a next-generation immersive social platform where your family can meet, play and move through apps and worlds with friends.
ACCOUNTS FOR CHILDREN AGES 10+
Accounts and built-in protections for age-appropriate experiences
AGES 10-12
Parent-managed Meta accounts
Designed with age-appropriate default settings that can only be changed with parental approval
AGES 13-17
Supervision tools
In addition to our always-on youth protections, we give you and your teen tools to approve or block app use, set time limits and filter content
Optional tools for oversight and guidance
Supervision Tools
Supervision adds tools and insights to the automatic protections in Teen Accounts, giving parents of teens 13–17 more oversight and a way to collaborate on safety settings.
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FEATURES AND TOOLS
Learn about Meta Horizon standards and safeguards
Get to know more about the features and tools dedicated to your family to create and explore in safe, age-appropriate ways.
Appropriate content
Appropriate content
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 is rated based on their suitability for different ages: ages 10+, ages 13+, or ages 18+. Only people ages 18 and up can see and visit worlds and events rated ages 18+.
- Digital goods (e.g. Avatar clothing) in Worlds also have ratings and are currently rated ages 10+
- 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
- The ability to watch what your children or teens are doing on their headset from your phone or browser in real-time.
- 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 or debit card, including the purchase of Meta Credits
- 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
enabled, parents and guardians 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)
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Contact and interactions
Contact and interactions
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
- Watch what your children or teens are doing on their headset from your phone or browser in real-time.
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
Privacy
Privacy
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
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Meta Credit management
Meta Credit management
Meta Credits are digital tokens that can be exchanged for avatar store clothing or accessories and certain premium in-world items in Meta Horizon Worlds. Meta Credits can be redeemed on Meta Quest and the Meta Horizon mobile app.
For preteens (ages 10-12):
- Preteens aged 10-12 on a parent-managed Meta account cannot purchase Meta Credits directly or manage their own wallet on Meta Horizon.
- With a parent-managed account, you can proactively purchase packs of Meta Credits and gift them to your preteens, or approve their requests to purchase Meta Credits, which can then be redeemed within the avatar store or in worlds for age-appropriate digital items.
- Parents can also monitor how Meta Credits are redeemed with supervision, by visiting Family Center.
For teens (ages 13+):
- Teens 13+ can buy packs of Meta Credits and manage their own Meta Horizon wallet.
- With supervision on Family Center, you can receive notifications when your teen purchases Meta Credits (pack size, payment method, date).
- You can also receive notifications when your teen redeems Meta Credits for a digital item (item name, credit price, date).
Parents can buy Quest Cash and send it to their teens, who can then use it to purchase Meta Credits on Meta Quest. Learn more about
purchasing Quest Cash.
Time management
Time management
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
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Comfort and physical safety
Comfort and physical safety
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
FEATURED NEWS AND RESOURCES
RESOURCES
Guide: Making your Meta Avatar a STAR
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Meta Quest: Parents: Important guidance & safety warnings for children’s use here. Using Meta Quest requires an account and is subject to requirements that include a minimum age of 10 (requirements may vary by country). See
meta.com/quest/terms
and the parent’s info page at
meta.com/quest/parent-info.
Certain apps, games and experiences may be suitable for a more mature audience.
META QUEST FEATURES, FUNCTIONALITY, AND CONTENT NOTICE:
Features, functionality and content are subject to change or withdrawal at any time,
may not be available in all areas or languages or may be restricted;
may require enabled software or service activation, and additional terms, conditions and/or charges may apply.
META QUEST IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTICE
https://www.meta.com/quest/quest-2-facial-interface-recall/.