How to Leave a Facebook Business Portfolio

Is this your situation?

The short answer

Before you start

• Confirm who has full control A person can remove someone from a business portfolio only if they have full control of the business portfolio.Verify: Check the business portfolio's People list for who holds full control.
• Check your own portfolio status The person being removed must be in the organization's business portfolio.Verify: Check that your name appears in the portfolio's People list.
• Check for assigned assets Removing a person from a business portfolio revokes their access to any business assets they have access to.Verify: Check which Pages, Instagram accounts or ad accounts are listed under your name.

How Facebook handles this

• A person can remove someone from a business portfolio only if they have full control of the business portfolio.
• Removing a person from a business portfolio revokes their access to that business portfolio.
• Removing a person also revokes access to business assets such as a Facebook Page, Instagram account, or ad account.
• Removing people from a business portfolio is a different action from removing partners.

Step by step

1. Identify who holds full control A person can remove someone from a business portfolio only if they have full control of the business portfolio.Confirm: Check the People section for the person marked with full control.
2. Ask that person to remove you A prerequisite for removing someone from a business portfolio is that the requester has full control of the business portfolio.Confirm: Check that the person has agreed to carry out the removal.
3. They go to Settings To remove someone from a business portfolio in Meta Business Suite, the first step is to go to Settings in Meta Business Suite for the business portfolio.Where: Meta Business Suite → SettingsConfirm: Check that the Settings page for the business portfolio has loaded.
4. They click People The second step is to click People in the left menu.Confirm: Check that the People list is displayed.
5. They click your name The third step is to click the name of the person to be removed.Confirm: Check that your profile details appear.
6. They click Remove and confirm The fourth step is to click Remove and confirm the removal of the person from the business portfolio.Confirm: Check that your name no longer appears in the People list.
7. Check your remaining access Removing a person from a business portfolio revokes their access to any business assets they have access to, such as a Facebook Page, Instagram account, or ad account.Confirm: Check that the Pages and ad accounts you previously managed no longer appear.

Common mistakes

• No one has full control If no one has full control, you can submit a request to get full control of the business portfolio.Why it happens: The admin who held full control left without transferring it.
• Confusing leaving with removing a partner Removing people from a business portfolio is different from removing partners.Why it happens: The two removal flows sit in different sections.
• Not expecting Page access to go too Removing a person from a business portfolio revokes their access to business assets such as a Page, Instagram account, or ad account.Why it happens: Asset access is tied to the same removal action.Already happened: If you still have access somewhere, review it with the audit access guide.

Roles at a glance

Keeping track of who has access