Safer Web Day 2026: Xbox Transparency Report and Instruments to Play with Confidence

Bringing the enjoyment of gaming to everybody means defending the individuals who play, and that accountability has been core to Xbox because the starting. We all know that gaming simply could be essentially the most fulfilling, socially linked, and highly effective type of leisure as we speak, and it’s essential we proceed defending the shared moments and experiences that come from enjoying video games collectively.

As we mark Xbox’s twenty fifth anniversary this yr, our dedication stays unchanged. In 2022, we made a promise to remain clear in regards to the work we do to guard our neighborhood and reasonable content material on our platform by often publishing our Xbox Transparency Reviews. This yr, forward of Safer Web Day, we’re sharing greater than ever about how we’re innovating protections and offering gamers, mother and father, and caregivers with a wide range of instruments and sources to allow them to really feel assured that Xbox continues to be a spot for constructive play, for the following 25 years and past.

Right this moment, we’re highlighting how we’re persevering with to form the trade commonplace for secure gameplay experiences, our newly revealed Xbox Transparency Report, an upcoming Minecraft world instructing digital citizenship and security abilities, and our ongoing work to implement Age Verification.

Shaping the Customary for Safer Play

At Xbox, security begins with understanding how individuals play. Since launching the Xbox 360 in 2005, which helped set the bar for on-line gaming, Xbox has formed how security, privateness, and safety are constructed into gaming experiences throughout the online game trade. Over the previous twenty years, this method has developed to fulfill the wants of gamers the place they play. It’s guided by 5 core pillars formed by participant and dad or mum suggestions, the consistently evolving nature of on-line harms, and the methods security by default can assist create safer, extra welcoming communities from the beginning:

Age Verification within the UK and past: Launched within the UK and increasing to extra areas later this yr, age verification on Xbox helps guarantee youngsters solely have entry to age-appropriate content material and are restricted in how they will work together with others on our platform. Learn extra about our method to Age Verification right here, and keep tuned for details about Age Verification increasing to extra areas later this yr.

Youngster and Teen Accounts: Specialised accounts on Xbox that take into account the totally different wants of kids and youths assist guarantee age-appropriate entry for younger gamers, giving them a tailor-made and guarded expertise. To arrange a toddler or teen account, go to: Xbox Youngster Account

Instruments to Assist Digital Parenting: By means of instruments just like the Xbox Household Settings app, detailed settings that give households management over their gaming experiences might be managed instantly from a cellular machine, with options like Ask A Mother or father, which prompts youngsters to request approval for actions and empower mother and father to make real-time choices. Obtain the Xbox Household Settings app or be taught extra about Recreation Scores, find out how to handle on-line and privateness settings, get conversant in the Minecraft Dad and mom Information, and extra on the Xbox Household Hub.

Continued AI Innovation Supported by Human Experience: Fixed innovation of automated AI instruments mixed with human moderators assist us detect, evaluate, proactively block and tackle dangerous on-line conduct extra precisely and effectively than ever. AI shortly and proactively spots potential points, supported by human reviewers who add context, concentrate on nuance, and stay central to making use of judgment to complicated conditions.

Dedication to Transparency: As the primary within the online game trade to decide to common transparency reporting, Xbox continues to make sure our neighborhood is aware of how security is maintained and points are dealt with.

New 2026 Xbox Transparency Report Reveals Continued AI Innovation & Discount in Spam

Our sixth Xbox Transparency Report shares insights into the work we do behind the scenes to guard all gamers from disruptive conduct and assist experiences which are enjoyable, constructive, secure, and age applicable. Key takeaways, which span Xbox security efforts in 2025, embrace:

Responsibly advancing our AI method to security. We expanded the scope of our proactive AI moderation options to incorporate 11 extra dangerous subjects that matter to gamers, permitting us to determine dangerous content material extra successfully so our human moderators can concentrate on combatting essentially the most nuanced and sophisticated harms.

An adaptive response to spam. In 2025, our proactive moderation efforts to forestall unsolicited content material from ever reaching gamers resulted in a 90% drop in spam message complaints in comparison with 2024, and an general 23% drop in complaints for messages from non-friends.

Improved Participant Reporting for Extra Frictionless Play. Our fixed efforts to enhance security processes attain throughout all of our groups at Xbox. Developer Flip 10 lately expanded reporting capabilities round consumer generated content material in Forza Horizon 5, permitting gamers to extra effectively file a report for dishonest and unsportsmanlike conduct with out ever needing to depart their recreation. Our groups at Flip 10 and throughout Xbox are excited to proceed exploring improved performance like this for future tasks.  

You may learn extra about our efforts to guard gamers within the full Xbox Transparency Report right here.

Practising Safer On-line Selections with Minecraft Schooling

On Safer Web Day subsequent week, Minecraft will launch CyberSafe: Unhealthy Connection?, the fifth installment within the CyberSafe sequence for Minecraft Bedrock and Minecraft Schooling. This new world will assist younger gamers construct on-line security and digital citizenship abilities by scenario-driven gameplay. Gamers will discover methods to acknowledge dangers and crimson flags, discover ways to report suspicious exercise, and construct confidence to maintain themselves and their neighborhood secure. Unhealthy Connection? builds on the legacy of the CyberSafe sequence, which has reached greater than 80 million downloads since 2022, equipping gamers with the abilities, apply, and confidence to navigate on-line areas.

Unhealthy Connection? shall be accessible at no cost within the Minecraft Market and Minecraft Schooling on February 10, together with free, downloadable supplies for folks and educators to assist vital, ongoing conversations about on-line security. We additionally lately shared extra in regards to the Minecraft Security Council, which brings collectively trade consultants to assist information safer multiplayer experiences for the Minecraft neighborhood. Meet the council and be taught extra right here.

Our Ongoing Dedication to Security Right this moment and for the Subsequent 25 Years

Each gaming neighborhood is exclusive and there’s no one-size-fits-all answer to protecting gamers secure. Whether or not it’s Name of Obligation’s ongoing research on participant belief and constructive play, new insights from the tenth annual International On-line Security Survey publishing on the Microsoft On the Points weblog on February 10, or our latest replace to our On-line Security Rules developed with Nintendo and Sony Interactive Leisure, our groups are consistently working to assist gamers get pleasure from enjoyable, constructive, and inclusive experiences.

Our work in participant security at Xbox is ongoing. For extra data on Microsoft privateness, security, and accountable gaming, discover these sources: