Facebook Page Roles Explained
Pages now use two access types: Full control and Task access. Here is what each one can and cannot do, in plain terms — so you give the right level to the right person.
In the New Pages Experience, Facebook access boils down to two ideas. Full control is for people who run the Page and need to manage everyone else. Task access is for everyone who only needs to do a specific job — write posts, answer messages, run ads, or read insights — without touching settings or other people. Almost everyone you work with should be on Task access; Full control is the level you give sparingly.
Full control: running the Page
Full control is the successor to the old Admin role. It can do everything on the Page — manage content, messages, ads, and settings — and, critically, it can add and remove other people and change their access. It is the only level that can delegate access to others.
That last power is why Full control matters so much. Anyone with it can, in principle, remove other people, including other admins. Reserve it for the small number of people you genuinely trust to control who else can get in.
Task access: doing specific jobs
Task access grants only named permissions: Content (create, edit, delete posts), Messages and community activity (the inbox, comments, mentions), Community activity (comments and mentions only), Ads (run ads from the Page), and Insights (read-only analytics). You give a person exactly the tasks they need and nothing more.
What Task access can never do is manage other people. Someone with Task access cannot add, remove, or change anyone else's access — that is reserved for Full control. This is the line that keeps task-based collaborators from quietly reshaping your team.
Every Facebook Page access type
Full control at the top, then the task-based permissions. Pick the narrowest set that still covers the work.
| Role | Where it lives | Can do | Cannot do |
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Facebook Access — Full control Can delegate to others | Page → Settings → New Pages experience → Page accessEntire Page |
| — ⚠ Equivalent to legacy "Admin". Tightly limit who has this. |
Facebook Access — Partial control | Page → Settings → New Pages experience → Page accessSpecific tasks granted |
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Task access — Content | Page → Settings → Page access → Task accessContent management |
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Task access — Messages and community activity | Page → Settings → Page access → Task accessInbox and community |
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Task access — Community activity | Page → Settings → Page access → Task accessComments only |
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Task access — Ads | Page → Settings → Page access → Task accessAds and boosted posts |
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Task access — Insights | Page → Settings → Page access → Task accessRead-only analytics |
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Where role choices go wrong
Giving Full control by default
Full control lets someone manage every other person on the Page. Most collaborators only need a task or two. Default to Task access and step up only when someone truly runs the Page.
Why it happens: Full control is the obvious "give them everything" choice, so it gets picked without checking whether tasks would do.
Already happened: Full control vs Task access: which to give
Granting more tasks than the work needs
A community manager rarely needs the Ads task; an ad buyer rarely needs the inbox. Grant only the specific tasks the role calls for.
Why it happens: It feels easier to grant a broad set "in case", but every extra task is extra exposure.
Assuming Ads task access controls the ad account
Ads task access lets someone run ads from the Page, but the ad account has its own roles and billing. The two do not overlap.
Why it happens: Page-level and ad-account-level access are easy to conflate.
Already happened: Ad account roles explained
Frequently asked questions
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.