Add admin to Facebook page: full control or task access

To add an admin to a Facebook page, start from the page itself. Switch into your page, open Settings, choose Page access and, under People with Facebook access, click Add New. Search for the person, choose whether they get full control, and confirm with your password. The person receives an invitation and only has access once they accept it.

The word admin no longer appears in the Facebook menu. Since the new Pages experience, Facebook talks about access: Facebook access with full control or partial access, and task access. Older tutorials with roles like editor, moderator and advertiser no longer match most pages. Below you read what each type means, who should get what, and why your page must never be left without someone holding full control.

Three kinds of access side by side

Facebook has two kinds of access. With Facebook access you switch into the page and work on Facebook itself, as the page. With task access you work from another tool, such as Meta Business Suite or Ads Manager, without switching in.

Between the two sits partial access. That is Facebook access without full control: the person can switch into the page, post, comment, answer messages and advertise, but cannot give or remove access or delete the page. For a colleague who works on the page every day, it is often the best choice.

Giving access, step by step

On a computer it goes like this. The app has the same menu, under your page and its settings.

Giving task access to an agency

For task access, choose the task access section on the same Page access screen, and click Add New there. You then choose per task what the person may do: content, messages and community activity, ads, or insights. Someone with task access only does not see the page in their list of profiles and works from Business Suite or Ads Manager.

If your company uses a business portfolio in Meta Business Suite, access runs through it. You give people access to the page from the portfolio settings, and you add an agency as a partner with its own portfolio. The agency then does not need to add personal accounts, and you withdraw access for the whole agency at once. More on advertising with a partner under Facebook and Instagram ads.

Why a page must never lose full control

A page must always keep at least one person with full control. If the last one drops away, because they leave or lose their account, Facebook deactivates the page and schedules it for deletion. So give two people from your own company full control. Not the intern, not the agency: the owner and a permanent colleague.

Full control is also the only level that lets someone remove you from your own page. Whoever holds it can give or remove access for others, including yours, and can delete the page. An agency or freelancer does not need it to do good work.

Removing or changing access

Removing access happens on the same screen. Open Page access, click the three dots next to the name and choose Remove or Edit. Do it on the day an employee leaves or a contract ends, just as you close an email account.

When you have lost access yourself

Did a former employee create the page and lose touch? First ask anyone with full control to add you. If nobody has it any more, you can request access to the page in Meta Business Suite; the current admins receive that request. If nobody replies, Facebook's help centre is what is left, with proof that the business is yours.

Which access for whom

That split follows one simple rule: as little access as the work needs, and always two people with full control whom you trust. Remove anyone who leaves your business or with whom you no longer work right away. Review the list once a year, so no old agency or former employee stays on your page.

If you work with an agency that also runs your ads, the ad account and the Meta Pixel are best kept in your own business portfolio, with access for the agency. When the work ends, your numbers and audiences stay yours. What ads cost is in Facebook ads cost, and how to choose between Meta and Google in Meta ads or Google Ads. Have a Google Business Profile too? Access works differently there: see add a manager to your Google Business Profile. Torn between staff, a freelancer or an agency? Read freelancer or agency. A question about your own page? Send us a message.

Next steps once access is right

With access in order, you can move on. Link the page to Instagram so messages arrive in one place: see how to link a Facebook page to Instagram. No page yet? Start with Facebook page setup for business. On LinkedIn too? How to add an admin to a LinkedIn page explains how roles work there. If the page name no longer fits, change Facebook page name shows what Meta allows.

Rather have someone else do the work? You can have us manage your Facebook page or hand over your whole social media management. What agencies charge is in social media management pricing.