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How to Change Someone's Access on a Facebook Page

Move someone between Full control and Task access, or adjust their tasks. Here’s how to edit a person’s Page permissions without removing and re-adding them.

You don’t have to remove and re-invite someone to change what they can do. From Page access you can promote a person to Full control, drop them to specific tasks, or toggle individual tasks on and off. Changes take effect immediately. The only move that needs care is taking Full control away from yourself or the last admin.

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Before you start

  • You have Full control of the Page

    Only Full control can change other people’s access.

  • Promoting to Full control? Confirm you trust them at that level

    Full control can remove people and delete the Page. Make sure the upgrade is intended.

Change a person’s access

  1. Open Page access

    Go to your Page’s settings and open Page access.

    Where: Page → Settings → Page access

  2. Select the person

    Click the person whose access you want to change. You’ll see their current access level and tasks.

  3. Adjust their access

    Turn Full control on or off, or toggle individual tasks (Content, Messages, Community, Ads, Insights). To move someone from task access up to Full control you may re-add them under Facebook access.

    Confirm: The new access level and tasks are reflected against the person.

    If this fails: You don’t have permission to do this

  4. Save and note the change

    Save. Record what changed and why, so future audits make sense.

Common mistakes

  • Downgrading yourself out of Full control

    If you remove your own Full control and no one else has it, you lose the ability to manage the Page.

    Already happened: You can’t remove the last admin

  • Promoting to Full control when extra tasks would do

    If someone just needs to also run ads, add the Ads task rather than handing them Full control.

    Why it happens: Full control feels like a tidy upgrade, but it grants people-management power too.

Frequently asked questions

Changes apply immediately. If you remove a task, they lose it right away; if you add one, it appears on their next refresh.

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