Roblox introduces Moments, Chat, and Me tabs in major app redesign, rolling out globally over the coming months
Roblox has announced a major redesign of its mobile app. The update features new tabs for Moments, Chat, and Me, bringing game discovery, social communication, and profile management together in one experience. The new layout will first roll out in Canada, New Zealand, and Singapore starting July 28, 2026, with plans for a global release in the coming months. New Zealand users will receive early access to a Build tab, a game creation tool designed for mobile.
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Moments: social video meets instant play
The Moments tab is the biggest addition. It displays gameplay videos from friends and selected content creators in a scrollable feed. With a single tap, viewers can jump directly into the featured game without leaving the app. This feature aims to reduce the gap between discovering a game and playing it, addressing a pain point that currently sends discovery activities to external platforms like YouTube and TikTok, where joining a game involves multiple extra steps.
Chat: persistent conversations across games
The Chat tab adds messaging to the main app navigation for all eligible users. More importantly, Roblox is working to enable conversations that carry over between games, allowing friends to stay in the same chat thread as they switch experiences without changing apps or losing context. This feature will be available soon after launch.
Me: profile and avatar in one place
The existing Avatar tab has been renamed Me and expanded to combine profile information with avatar customisation in one place. New background options for avatars have been added, giving players more ways to personalise their presence on the platform.
Build: mobile game creation in alpha
The Build tab is now rolling out in public alpha in New Zealand for age-verified users aged 9 and older. It provides a mobile-first game creation environment that uses the same back end, models, and chat history as Roblox Studio, the desktop creation tool. This setup allows creators to start a game on their phone and continue refining it in Studio or the other way around without losing their work or context between devices.
With 132 million daily active users and a creator community constantly releasing new games, matching the right player to the right game is really challenging at scale. Moments is Roblox’s most direct attempt to tackle that issue through social proof and seamless access instead of relying solely on algorithmic recommendations.
In India, where Roblox has been expanding rapidly with Hindi language support and age-based account protections, the Moments tab could boost the visibility of games and creators made in India within the platform’s growing domestic community.
