Meta Horizon Worlds was built with safety features that help people feel in control of their experience. We encourage you and your teen to become familiar with these settings and resources.

• Teens' Meta Horizon profiles are automatically set to private, so they're able to approve or decline requests to follow them. This puts them in control of who they follow and who follows them.

• We automatically don't show teens' Active Status settings to other people. This includes their Active Status and their Meta Horizon Worlds location. Teens can choose whether their connections can see if they're active and which public world or event they're in.

• We use content ratings to help teens have an age-appropriate experience in Worlds. Mature worlds and events are rated 18+ and teens can't find, see or enter them. Our policies also don't allow teens to publish mature worlds or events.

• Voice mode transforms your teen's voice and the voices of people that they don't know into quiet, friendly sounds, giving your teen more control over who can hear and communicate with them. We automatically turn on garbled voices in voice mode for all teens. Your teen will still be able to hear community guides and people that they know, and they'll be able to hear your teen too.

• Blurred chats give your teen more control over whether people they don't know can see their messages. When blurred chats are turned on, messages from people your teen doesn't know will appear blurred. Your teen's messages will be blurred to them, too.

• World chat filter lets your teen control what kind of words or phrases they can see in world chat. When it's on, words that might be upsetting or offensive are automatically hidden.
• Personal boundary sets an invisible bubble around your teen's avatar so that people that they don't know can't get too close. This setting is automatically turned on for everyone, including teens.

• Pause lets your teen quickly take a break from a situation or space.

• Reporting, blocking and muting helps protect your teen from anyone who makes them uncomfortable.

• Turning off the microphone prevents anyone from hearing your teen in Meta Horizon Worlds.

• We want to help prevent teens from hearing from adults they may not know. That's why we take steps to prevent interactions between adults and unconnected teens. For example, we don't display any adults that a teen doesn't know in their "people that you might know" list.

• As Meta Horizon Worlds is an open space where people are hanging out in real time, we have rules to help keep everyone safe. Our Code of Conduct for Virtual Experiences and Mature and Prohibited Worlds Policy outline how we expect everyone to act and give examples of what kinds of behaviour we don't approve of.

We want to help prevent teens from hearing from adults that they may not know. That's why we take steps to prevent interactions between adults and unconnected teens. For example, we don't display any adults that a teen doesn't know in their "people that you might know" list.

We've also built in protections such as personal boundary, voice mode and blurred chats that help limit interactions between teens and people they don't know. We automatically turn off Active Status settings for teens, preventing others from seeing when they're active or what public world or event they're visiting in Meta Horizon Worlds. When a teen makes a Meta Horizon profile, it's automatically set to private so that they can control who follows them.

We have community guides in a few key public spaces to help answer questions and report and remove people who aren't following our Code of Conduct for Virtual Experiences. We also encourage you to talk with your teens about healthy online interactions and ways that they can feel safer, including:

• Keeping personal boundary, blurred chats and garbled voices in voice mode turned on
• Keeping Active Status settings turned off so that no one can see when they're active or what public world or event they're visiting in Meta Horizon Worlds
• Reporting, blocking and muting people who make them uncomfortable
• Never sharing private information, such as name and location, with people that they don't know
• Ignoring invitations or requests to follow people that they don't know or feel comfortable around
• Connecting with a parent or guardian on Meta Quest app to access parental supervision

Your teen can invite you to connect to their Meta Horizon Worlds account through their headset or the Meta Quest app. Both you and your teen can also invite to connect accounts through the Family Centre dashboard.

Once connected, you can access Meta Horizon Worlds parental supervision in the Meta Quest app by going to Menu > Parental supervision. From there, you can select your teen's account, then select Apps > Meta Horizon Worlds.