How to modify date of birth in child’s account

C.C.-1060 · Nov 29, 2018

When we set up child account, accidentally put in wrong birth year. How do we change it?

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IRB · Nov 29, 2018

Account Privacy

Hi

After the Xbox account has been created, you can't change the date of birth on it. It might change the Microsoft Account birth date but it won't change the xbox date .This is to prevent children from trying to bypass parental protection.

Did you get prompted to migrate your account to an adult account?

You might need to modify the privacy settings to grant more access. If still a child account, an attached adult account will need to do that.

Acci1234 · Nov 29, 2018

Change the Birth Date?

How do I change the birth date of a child to an adult, if I am a child and I want to change the date of birth to an adult, how do I do that? And if that would mean I have to make another account, how could I transfer my data form this account to the other
one..

Thanks, Akseli

steeledwand7664 · Nov 29, 2018

Do you mean you put it as an adult and need it to be a child?

Or do you mean that you put it as a child and need it to be an adult?

What exactly are you trying to do?

Once a DOB is put onto an account the xbox profile attached to it will see that DOB as the DOB for the account and there is no way to change it.

M3tal Daz3 · Nov 6, 2018

You can't change a child account into an adult account once registered for xbox live. You can modify the DOB under your MS account's page yet that will not upgrade a child account into an adult account for the live service.

M3tal Daz3

You can't change a child account into an adult account once registered for xbox live. You can modify the DOB under your MS account's page yet that will not upgrade a child account into an adult account for the live service.

steeledwand7664

Do you mean you put it as an adult and need it to be a child?

Or do you mean that you put it as a child and need it to be an adult?

What exactly are you trying to do?

Once a DOB is put onto an account the xbox profile attached to it will see that DOB as the DOB for the account and there is no way to change it.

IRB

Hi

After the Xbox account has been created, you can't change the date of birth on it. It might change the Microsoft Account birth date but it won't change the xbox date .This is to prevent children from trying to bypass parental protection.

Did you get prompted to migrate your account to an adult account?

You might need to modify the privacy settings to grant more access. If still a child account, an attached adult account will need to do that.

KindGryphon

Is your child account 18 years old based on the date of birth you originally entered when making the account? If not then that is why it wont change to an adult account. Note that if you changed the date of birth on your Microsoft account that will not change
the date of birth on you Xbox Account. The child-adult upgrade system only looks at the date of birth that was originally entered when your Xbox account was made.

steeledwand7664

Just because you changed the date of birth on the account does not mean it changed when an account is originally setup and the date of birth is put onto an account that is the date of birth that will always be on the account.

Now if that date of birth has reached its 18th birthday and you are still getting that message that means your account is still under a family as a child account.

If this is the case you would need to sign into a parent account for the family at account.microsoft.com/family and remove the child from the family and this will put the child account into its own family as an adult.

Now if you do this last step and the date of birth on the account when it was originally setup has not reached its 18th birthday then it will be considered an orphaned account and would NOT be able to do ANYTHING until put into a family as a child account.

How to modify date of birth in child’s account