Parental Controls

You can choose to allow your child to speak with:

If your child is under 10 years old, the maximum voice and text chat permission will be “Friends Only.” When your child turns 10, you will be able to choose additional voice and text chat options. If your child is under 13, the maximum voice and text chat permission will be “Friends, team members, & connections”. When your child turns 13, you will be able to choose additional voice and text chat options. Turning on voice chat also turns on voice reporting.

About Voice Reporting

When voice chat is on, voice reporting stores voice chat audio on each participant’s device on a rolling five-minute basis, which will be sent to Epic Games only if a participant reports a violation. Voice reporting is usually on, except in parties formed among friends where all players prefer voice reporting off. Players can see if voice reporting is currently on or off in the Sidebar (or from the Party Menu in Fall Guys). Voice reporting is always on for players under 18.

To learn more about voice reporting, see our Frequently Asked Questions (Fortnite FAQ, Rocket League FAQ, and Fall Guys FAQ).

You can choose to allow your child to text chat with:

If your child is under 10 years old, the maximum text and voice chat permission will be “Friends Only.” When your child turns 10, you will be able to choose additional text and voice chat options. If your child is under 13, the maximum text and voice chat permission will be “Friends, team members, and connections”. When your child turns 13, you will be able to choose additional text and voice chat options.

Note: Selecting "Nobody" still allows players to use messages from a list of standard in-game safe phrases (e.g. “Nice one!”), if supported. If a selected setting is not yet supported by a game or service, a more restrictive setting is applied.

About Text Reporting
If text chat is on and text reporting is enabled, you can report the contents of your conversation to Epic for review. Submitting a report uploads the latest reportable text chat messages that you’ve sent and received in the channel you are reporting, and sends them to Epic moderators for review. You can see if text reporting is currently on or off in the text input field before typing a message. Text reporting is always on for players under the age of 18.

To learn more about text reporting, see the Frequently Asked Questions.

Filter off: Text chat won’t be filtered for mature language.

Filter on: Mature language in text chat will be filtered and replaced with heart symbols.

The mature language filter will always be on for players under 13 in all text chats and always on for all players in Game Channels, which are island-specific channels where players can chat with other players in the same experience.

Setting off: Your child can send or accept friend requests themselves.

Setting on: Each time your child tries to send or accept an Epic friend request, you will need to enter your PIN.

Note: Friends requests are not permitted for Rocket League Sideswipe since it doesn’t yet support this setting. This setting doesn’t affect platform-wide friends systems on gaming platforms such as PlayStation®, Steam, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch™.

Setting off: Your child will be able to complete payments without a PIN.

Setting on: Your Parental Controls PIN will be required to complete payments using Epic payment. This setting does not affect payments made on gaming platforms such as PlayStation®, Steam, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch™, nor does it affect purchases made with in-game currencies, such as V-Bucks in Fortnite.

Note: If your child indicates they are under the age of 13, a daily spending limit of $100 will be applied to their account. Any purchases above the daily spending limit will require that a parent or guardian’s Parental Controls PIN is entered to override the limit and complete the purchase.

The $100 spending limit will apply to the daily total purchases made using Epic Games payment, including purchases in Fortnite, Rocket League, Fall Guys and the Epic Games Store. This limit will not be applied to payments made on gaming platforms such as PlayStation®, Steam, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch™, and does not affect purchases made with in-game currencies, such as V-Bucks in Fortnite.

Setting off: Your child CANNOT spend V-Bucks (or content purchased with V-Bucks) on items or content where the reward is random.

Setting on: Your child CAN spend V-Bucks (or content purchased with V-Bucks) on items or content where the reward is random.

Note: Paid random items are not available in all regions. If paid random items aren’t available, you will not see the “Allow paid random items” setting.

Rating systems vary by geographical region. An example of age rating limits are listed below:

For example, if you set your rating to Everyone 10+, you will be required to enter your Parental Controls PIN to unlock Teen experiences. If you set your rating to Teen, you won’t need to enter your PIN, all experiences in Fortnite will be accessible to your child.

Learn more about IARC Ratings in Fortnite here.

Setting off: Your child cannot design games and experiences in Fortnite, and cannot join their friends while they design their own experiences.

Setting on: Your child can design games and experiences in Fortnite, and can join their friends while they design their own experiences.

Note: While designing a Fortnite experience, players can interact with content that has not been submitted to Fortnite Publishing for moderation and thus has not been rated. Players may also create content, including text, which may be visible to their collaborators.

Learn more about Creative at fn.gg/creative

Rating systems vary by geographical region. Some examples of age rating limits are listed below:

• Everyone
• Everyone 10+
• Teen
• Mature
• Adults Only
• Unrated

For example, if you select Everyone 10+, your child would not be able to get new games rated Teen without entering your PIN. Epic considers some content on Fab to be Mature. Your child will not be able to access Mature content on Fab unless you select ‘Unrated.’

Note: If you set your Epic Games Store content ratings to “Everyone” or “Everyone 10+”, your child will be able to download Fortnite from the Epic Games Store but they will only be able to access islands within your ratings threshold and not islands rated “Teen” like Fortnite Battle Royale. See the section above for more details on Fortnite Content Settings.

Sign In With Epic is a single sign on (SSO) solution that allows your child to use their Epic account to sign in to or connect external accounts and games from other companies outside the Epic Games Store.

Players can use Sign In With Epic to access games or connect to platforms that aren’t operated by Epic. When using Sign In With Epic, players share account information including their Epic ID and Display Name, connected gaming account names, their online presence, and their Epic friends list. Epic may receive similar account information from the connected site or platform.

Enable Sign in With Epic for your child

Allow: Your child will be able to log in and connect to any non-Epic game or site that uses Sign In with Epic, including games and platforms outside of the Epic Games Store. We'll email you when they've done so, and you can review their connected accounts from the account portal.

Ask each time: You will be asked to approve each non-Epic game or site to which your child attempts to log in or connect using their Epic Account. If you had previously approved connections they will be removed.

Note: this control is only visible for certain accounts depending on information you or a member of your family provided when signing up for or completing verified parental consent for an Epic account.

With Time Limit Controls, you will have the option to:

• Limit the total amount of time your child can spend in Fortnite and UEFN per day.
• Choose specific time windows that your child can spend in Fortnite and UEFN each day, and set time limits within that window.

If you set up a time limit, your child will begin seeing in-game notifications when they have 30 minutes left in Fortnite and UEFN. Once your child reaches their limit, they will not be able to use Fortnite or UEFN until the next day or until a new window begins, unless you choose to add more time.

Time Limit Controls work across consoles and devices. As long as a player is using the same account across devices, the limit you set will be in effect for Fortnite and UEFN no matter where your child plays or creates.

Note: Limits set for your device or console operate independently of your Time Limit Controls, and may further limit allowed time on that device.

You have the option to:

• Set limits on the amount of time your child can spend playing in Fortnite or creating in Fortnite and UEFN per day.
• Choose specific time windows that your child can play or create in Fortnite each day, and set time limits within that window.

If you set up a time limit for either playing or creating, your child will begin seeing in-game notifications when they have 30 minutes left in Fortnite or UEFN. Once your child reaches their limit, they will not be able to use Fortnite or UEFN until the next day or until a new window begins, unless you choose to add more time. If your child has Create Time left but has reached their Play Time limit, they will be able to access Fortnite Creative in Fortnite (alone or with friends), and will be able to playtest their unpublished islands. They will not be able to browse or play Fortnite, view their locker or explore the shop until their next window begins.

Note: Playtesting unpublished UEFN or creative games is included as Create time.

Note: Limits set for your device or console operate independently of your Time Limit Controls, and may further limit allowed time on that device.

Setting off: Your child will not be allowed to request more time.

Setting on: Your child will be allowed to request more time from within Fortnite.

If you set separate Play Time and Create Time limits, you can allow your child to request more time for either Play Time or Create Time, both, or neither.

If you have allowed your child to request more time, and they have 30 minutes or less left in their window, your child can request more time from within Fortnite. There is not an option to request more time in UEFN.

Their request will send you an email with a link where you can add more time for that day if you choose. You can also add more time (even if you haven’t enabled requests for more time) from inside Fortnite by selecting “Time Limits & Reports” from the main menu in the Sidebar and choosing “Add More Time.” Once you input your Parental Controls PIN code, you can select the desired increment of time to add. Time granted will be effective immediately.

Setting off: You will not see how much time your child spends in Fortnite and UEFN.

Setting on: You will see a dashboard which provides a daily breakdown of how much total time your child spends in Fortnite and UEFN and indicates when you have granted extra time for your child.

After you have turned Time Reports On, whenever you go back to the Account Portal, you will be able to see up to four weeks of activity (or less if you haven’t had Time Reports enabled for that long).

If you have set separate Play and Create time limits, you will see a breakdown of time your child spent playing and creating.

Setting off: You won't receive a weekly report.

Setting on: You will receive a weekly report summarizing your child’s time in Fortnite and UEFN. If you set separate create and play time limits set for your child, you will see a breakdown of time your child spent both playing and creating for the week.

Setting off: Your child cannot interact with AI features in Epic’s products through voice and free-text written communication.

Setting on: Your child can interact with AI features in Epic’s products through voice and written communication.

Note: This control does not apply to AI-powered support interactions.