Understanding

Classic vs New Pages Experience

The New Pages Experience dropped the old Admin/Editor roles for Full control and Task access. Here is what changed, and why your roles screen may look different.

If your Page used to show roles like Admin, Editor, and Moderator and now talks about "Full control" and "Task access", you have moved to the New Pages Experience. Meta replaced the old fixed roles with a two-part model: Full control for people who run the Page, and granular Task access for everyone who only handles a specific job. The classic roles are legacy; the New Pages Experience is where Meta is taking everyone.

The classic model

Classic Pages used named roles: Admin, Editor, Moderator, Advertiser, and Analyst, each a fixed bundle of permissions. An Admin could do everything; an Editor could post but not manage people; a Moderator handled messages and comments; an Advertiser ran ads; an Analyst only saw insights.

It was simple but blunt. If someone needed slightly more than Moderator, you often had to make them an Editor and over-grant. And the roles lived on the Page itself, separate from the business-portfolio world where ad accounts and ownership sit.

The New Pages Experience

The New Pages Experience splits access into two clear ideas. Full control is for people who genuinely run the Page — they can manage everything, including adding and removing other people. Task access is everything else, broken into specific permissions: Content, Messages and community activity, Community activity, Ads, and Insights. You grant only the tasks a person needs.

This is more granular and safer. A freelance ad buyer can get Ads task access and nothing else; a community manager can get Messages without touching settings. And it lines up better with the portfolio model, where access and ownership are deliberately kept separate.

The New Pages Experience access types

Full control plus task-based access. The classic Admin/Editor/Moderator/Advertiser/Analyst roles map onto these.

RoleWhere it livesCan doCannot do
Facebook Access — Full control
Can delegate to others
Page → Settings → New Pages experience → Page access
Entire Page
  • Manage the Page completely
  • Add and remove people with Facebook access
  • Switch into the Page or delegate it to a Business Portfolio
Equivalent to legacy "Admin". Tightly limit who has this.
Facebook Access — Partial control
Page → Settings → New Pages experience → Page access
Specific tasks granted
  • Granular task permissions (Content, Messages, Community, Ads, Insights)
  • Add or remove other people
Task access — Content
Page → Settings → Page access → Task access
Content management
  • Create, edit, and delete Page posts
Task access — Messages and community activity
Page → Settings → Page access → Task access
Inbox and community
  • Reply to messages, comments, mentions
Task access — Community activity
Page → Settings → Page access → Task access
Comments only
  • Reply to comments and mentions
  • Access inbox messages
Task access — Ads
Page → Settings → Page access → Task access
Ads and boosted posts
  • Run ads from the Page
Task access — Insights
Page → Settings → Page access → Task access
Read-only analytics
  • View Page insights and performance

Frequently asked questions

Only on Pages not yet migrated to the New Pages Experience. Meta is moving Pages over, and migration remaps the old roles to Full control and Task access.

Delvia

Access issues are easier to prevent when roles, owners, and responsibilities are recorded clearly

Most access problems trace back to the same gap — no clear record of who has access, what role they hold, and what should happen when that changes. Delvia helps you keep that record so problems are visible before they become incidents.

Delvia is free on iPhone and Android. Keep a clear record of who has access to your accounts — and what to do when that changes — wherever you are.