How to add an admin to a Facebook Page

Before you start

• You need full control of the Page yourself: only those people can add or remove someone.
• The person needs a Facebook account. Ask for their profile link or the account's email, so you don't invite someone with the same name.
• The menus below are those of current Pages (the "New Pages Experience"). If you can't find "Page access", update the app or use a computer.

On a computer

1. Log into Facebook, click your photo at the top right, then your Page name to switch to it.
2. Click the photo again (now the Page's), then Settings & privacy › Settings.
3. In the left menu, choose Page access (sometimes under "New Pages Experience").
4. Next to People with Facebook access, click Add New, then Next.
5. Type the person's name or email and select them.
6. Leave full control off for partial access, or switch it on for a real admin. Click Give access and confirm with your password.

On your phone (Facebook app)

1. Open the ☰ menu (bottom right on iPhone, top right on Android) and tap your Page name to switch to it.
2. Open the menu again, then Settings & privacy › Settings.
3. Under Page setup, tap Page access.
4. Tap Add New next to "People with Facebook access", find the person, choose the access, confirm with your password.

No such menu? Common on older app versions: update the app, or do it once from a computer.

With Meta Business Suite (Page and Instagram together)

If your Page sits in a business portfolio, or you also want to give Instagram access, use Meta Business Suite (business.facebook.com):

1. Open Settings (the gear at the bottom left), then People.
2. Click Invite people and enter the person's email address.
3. Choose the accounts to hand over (your Facebook Page, your Instagram account) and the access level for each.
4. Send the invitation: the person receives it by email and accepts it.

For an agency with its own business portfolio, it is cleaner to add it as a partner (Settings › Partners): you don't manage its staff one by one, and you remove the whole agency at once.

Remove access or transfer the Page

• Remove someone: Page access, the three dots next to their name, Remove. Do it the day an employee or provider leaves.
• Transfer the Page (selling the business, new manager): give full control to the new owner, check they accepted, then remove your own access.
• Lost access because a former provider was the only admin? Ask them to add you back. If they don't answer, Meta has a Page recovery form, but it is slow: always keep at least two trusted people with full control, including yourself.

Security rules worth keeping

• Never give your password, not even "just for today".
• Give partial access by default, full control only to partners in the business.
• Turn on two-factor authentication on your own account: a Page is almost always lost through its admin's account.
• Once a quarter, open Page access and remove people who no longer need it.