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February 21, 2026
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My son's account is locked because I can not verify his birthday.

My son's account is locked for 12 hours because I can not verify his birthday. I entered his birthday and am receiving a message that says it does not match. There is nothing more I can do since I can not look up his birthday from within my parent account. Maybe I mistyped it originally, I have no idea why it is failing and have no way to verify it from my (parent) end. This is really a deficiency with how you've automated this solution and is extremely frustrating that I (as a parent) do not have more control over my child's profile (or access to his information). Take a note from all the other major media/game sources, Google, Microsoft, Nintendo, Apple, etc. They ALL have so much more robust solutions for child accounts. As a parent, I should have more control and your push towards automation is only frustrating and making your otherwise fairly cool product a $500 paper weight as I (as a parent) have no real use for it. Now I am forced to either create a new profile and presumably lose $100's of games, etc. that were purchased directly through his account and all the progress he made through the games or guess his birthday over the next several 12 hour periods ... because I have no idea (and cannot verify) what is in the database already.

    8 replies

    New Participant
    February 21, 2026

    I am having the exact same problem, can't contact anyone since I don't have a device on my account and his account is locked. Since everything is AI, I can't figure out how to get to a real person 

    Choleni
    Honored Contributor
    February 21, 2026

    HikinRuss​ 

    go HERE to contact support via email, chat or WhatsApp.

     

    steve40
    Honored Contributor
    February 22, 2026

    I can not look up his birthday from within my parent account

    Access Family Center on the web, not through the phone app. Click the big blue "Go to Supervision button." Select your child. Scroll down and click "Manage Meta account".

    ... and you can change their DoB after clicking ">" and entering your password.

    HikinRuss​ Choleni​ NiceAlpacaDRM​ 

    PS. I've reported the bug in the phone app, as the "Manage Meta account" option in the app only opens a blank page.

    New Participant
    February 22, 2026

    Thanks steve_40​. Unfortunately, after the profile has already been locked, this information is no longer available. Luckily, I received some responses through Meta's email support service, although I've already been to two different support staff members without a resolution. Hopefully, this will get resolved soon. Otherwise, I will undoubtedly lose either money (games) or progress (time). 

    New Participant
    February 25, 2026

    I am having the exact same problem! I contacted someone last Friday and they told me they were working on it and sent me an email saying they would let me know if its been fixed. I emailed them yesterday (the following Tuesday because all my kids are playing on their VR and my youngest cant because he cant log in. I got the same email as the original one saying they were working on it and would let me know when it was resolved. So I just emailed them again (Wednesday) and simply asking if no one could just add his correct birthday in for me or let me verify his birthdate another way. This is ridiculous. I want to just delete his account and start him a new on but if I do that he loses everything he's paid for and worked up for and all his friend connections. Thats not fair to him. 

    New Participant
    February 26, 2026

    Same thing happening here, terrible app to manage your kids account and now this block 

    Participant
    March 18, 2026

    I am having the same problem. I submitted my child's birth certificate and support keeps replying that I need to confirm this age again. They obviously haven't read the case history. If I had known how horrible Meta support was I would have never purchased one of their products.