Moments, Chat and Me: the new Roblox home screen and when it reaches you
The Roblox app has a new home screen, with Moments, Chat and Me tabs. Moments is a feed of gameplay clips where every video has a join button. It started in three countries and is reaching the rest gradually. Here is what each tab does and the age requirement that comes with it.
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The Roblox app has changed its face. In place of the old home screen there are now tabs: Moments, Chat and Me. The change started in three countries and is being released to the rest over the following months, so it is quite possible you have not seen it yet.
This piece explains what each tab does, which age requirement comes with it, and what to do if yours has not changed.
The short answer
The new home screen launched for people opening Roblox in Canada, New Zealand and Singapore, and the tabs will reach the rest of the world in the months after.
Moments is the headline addition. It is a feed of short gameplay clips, coming from your friends and from video creators, and every clip has a join button right underneath. You watch a slice of a match, you like it, you tap, and you are inside the game. The stated idea is that each clip is a doorway into playing, rather than just a video to watch.
Chat gathers conversations in one place, and the conversation follows the player into the game instead of being left behind when you join a match.
Me is the old avatar tab under another name and with more inside it: profile and avatar appearance now live in the same place.
There is also a fourth tab, Build, which is mobile creation and appeared first in New Zealand only.
For scale: the announcement says an average of 132 million people come to the platform per day.
How to tell whether it has reached you
There is no switch to turn this on. The release is handled by the platform, by region, and gradually. What you can do:
- Update the app through your device's store. A new interface arrives by update, and an old app will not show a new tab no matter how long you wait.
- Open it and look at the bottom bar. If the words Moments, Chat and Me appear, it has arrived. If the screen is still the usual list of games, it has not.
- Do not reinstall to force it. Reinstalling does not pull a regional release forward, and you risk getting the password wrong on the way back in.
One important detail: even with the new screen, Moments may not appear for you. It is limited by age, and that is the next topic.
Each tab, what it does and what it requires
The table separates what each tab does from the requirement it carries, because the two get confused — and the Moments requirement is the part that catches the most people off guard.
Notice that only Moments has an age requirement of its own. Chat appears for anyone who could already use chat, under the platform's normal communication rules. Me requires nothing: it is the avatar tab renamed.
The catches
Moments has a minimum age, and it is not low. To see the clips, the account has to have been through age verification and be 16 or older. A good share of the Roblox audience is younger than that, and for those accounts the tab simply does not deliver the feed.
A clip is not an ad, but it is not a neutral recommendation either. The feed mixes videos from friends with videos from selected creators. Both take you into the game with one tap, and it is worth knowing that before assuming everything there was chosen by a friend.
One-tap joining is too fast to read the game page. The old route went through the experience page, where the description, the player count and the ratings live. The button under the clip skips that. If you are in the habit of checking whether a game is what it claims to be, you will now have to do it deliberately.
A new tab is not a new game. The change is navigational. No game got better or worse because of it, and nobody lost progress.
The Build tab is not everywhere. It appeared first in a single country. If you heard you can make a game from your phone and could not find the tab, that is probably why.
Chat depends on the platform's age rules. The tab appears for anyone who could already chat, and it does not change who can talk to whom. If you cannot talk to someone in another age bracket, the problem is not the new tab — it is the communication rules, which have changed a lot in recent months and have their own route to sort out.
A feed is more addictive than a list. It is worth saying the obvious: a short-video feed with a join button underneath was designed to keep you scrolling. Anyone with limited time to play should treat Moments as what it is — a shop window — and not as the default way to decide what to play. Search and the favourites list still exist, and they take you to what you already wanted.
What to do next
If the tabs have already appeared in your app, spend five minutes in the Me tab before anything else: it is where profile and avatar were merged, and it is the change that most alters the route to things you already did.
If Moments appeared and you are old enough for it, one practical warning: the feed is good at finding a game you were not looking for, and terrible at finding a specific one. To look for a game by name, search is still the route.
And if none of this has appeared yet, there is nothing to do beyond keeping the app updated. The release is by region and in stages, and forcing it does not work.
It is also worth adjusting your expectations about what this change means. Roblox is turning the app into a place where watching, talking and playing happen in the same space, instead of each living in a different app. For anyone who already used a second app to watch Roblox clips and a third to talk to their group, that shortens the route. For anyone who only opened Roblox to play, it is one more screen between you and the play button — and in that case the fix is simple: put your games in favourites and go in from there.
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| Tab | What it does | Requirement |
|---|---|---|
| Moments | feed of gameplay clips, with a join button on each | age-checked and 16 or older |
| Chat | one conversation, which continues inside the game | appears for anyone allowed to chat |
| Me | avatar and profile in the same place | none; replaces the old avatar tab |
| Build | mobile creation, an extension of Studio | appeared first in New Zealand only |
| Where it started | When | Rest of the world |
|---|---|---|
| Canada, New Zealand and Singapore | 28/07/2026 | over the following months |
Figures as stated in the official announcement of 28/07/2026, checked on 23/09/2026. Source: about.roblox.com/newsroom/2026/07/moments-new-homepage-unlocks-gaming-for-all