How to Add an Admin to a Facebook Page.

The short answer

To add an admin to a Facebook Page, switch into the Page, open Settings, then Page setup, then Page access, and choose Add new. Search for the person, give them Facebook access or task access, and decide whether to turn on full control. Leave full control off unless they should be able to remove you.

Why “admin” is the wrong word now

Most people still search for how to add an admin to a Facebook Page, but the older roles (Admin, Editor, Moderator, Advertiser and Analyst) have largely been replaced. On a Facebook Page today you choose between two kinds of access and, inside one of them, two levels of control.

That change matters more than the menu path. Under the old roles, “admin” was one obvious choice. Now the decision is how much of the Page you hand over, which makes it an Operations decision, not a button for whoever happens to be logged in.

It is also the mirror image of taking access away, which our guide to removing an admin from a Facebook Page covers.

The two kinds of access

• Facebook access: the person can switch into the Page and manage it directly on Facebook.
• Task access: the person works on the Page through tools such as Meta Business Suite or Ads Manager, and cannot switch into the Page.

Task access is split into tasks you turn on one at a time: content, messages and community activity, ads, and insights. Turn on only the tasks the person needs.

Full control and partial control

Facebook access comes in two levels, and partial control is the default.

• Full control includes settings, permissions and deleting the Page. Someone with full control can manage other people’s access, and that includes removing you.
• Partial control lets someone manage the Page directly on Facebook, but not control access or critical settings.

The full control toggle is the one setting in the whole flow that decides whether someone can remove you from your own Page or delete it. Everything else is about workload.

How to add someone to a Page

1. Switch into the Page from your profile.
2. Open Settings and privacy, then Settings, then Page setup, then Page access.
3. On desktop, click Add new beside the access type you want. On mobile, tap the blue Add new button at the top.
4. Search for the person by name or email address.
5. Choose the access type. For Facebook access, decide on the full control toggle before you confirm.
6. Click Give access.

Three catches sit inside that flow:

• You can only give access if you have Facebook access with full control yourself.
• The person needs a Facebook account of their own, or they will not appear in the search.
• The invitation goes by email and they have 30 days to accept it. Access may not activate until they accept.

Who should get which level

This is how we would set it for the usual cases:

• A freelancer who posts and replies: task access for content and for messages and community activity, or Facebook access with partial control if they need to work inside the Page.
• A reporting lead: task access for insights only.
• A community manager: Facebook access with partial control.
• A second owner inside the brand: full control, so the Page never depends on one person.

Our rule is simple. Full control belongs only to people you would trust to own the Page if everyone else left.

Why full control is the wrong default for an agency

Someone with full control can remove you or delete the Page. For a brand, that turns full control into a question of ownership, not convenience.

An agency or a freelancer rarely needs it. Posting, replying and reading results all sit inside partial control or task access. What full control adds is power over who else is on the Page, and that power should stay with the business that owns it.

The same logic runs the other way. An agency holding full control on a client’s Page holds the power to remove the client. We would rather not hold that power, and we think no agency should accept it as the default.

Keep two people with full control

A Page needs at least one person with Facebook access and full control. Without one, it is deactivated automatically and scheduled for deletion.

So the risk is not only giving full control to the wrong person. It is having only one person with it. If that one login is lost or belongs to someone who has left, the Page has no owner. Two named people at the brand, each with full control, is the setup we recommend.

Who holds what belongs in the same written process as your approvals, and our social media approval process template is a starting point for writing it down.

Pages owned by a business portfolio

If the Page sits in a business portfolio, you add people from Meta Business Suite instead: Settings, then Accounts, then Pages, select the Page, then Assign people for an individual or Assign partner for an agency.

Portfolio access comes in three levels: partial access to business tools only, partial access to business tools and Facebook, and full access. Full access lets someone manage everything, switch into the Page, grant or remove access and delete the Page. As on a standalone Page, full access users can remove anyone, including you.

For an agency, Assign partner is usually the cleaner route. The client shares the Page with the agency’s business as a whole, only the business that owns an asset can grant access to it, and the agency cannot share the Page on to another business.

Check who already has access

Before you add anyone, look at who is already there. On a standalone Page, the list sits on the same Page access screen, and you need at least partial Facebook access to the Page to see it.

In Meta Business Suite, check Settings, then Accounts, then Pages, or Settings, then People, where each person is shown with their access level, full control or partial control. Partners are listed separately.

Changing or removing access later

To change someone’s access, open Page access, open the options beside their name and choose Edit access or Remove access. In a portfolio, the same choices sit under Settings, then Accounts, then Pages, as Manage or Remove access.

Only someone with Facebook access and full control can remove other people from the Page. When a freelancer finishes or an agency contract ends, removing their access belongs in the offboarding checklist, on the same day.

How NBK thinks about Page access

Page access is part of the operating system behind social, not an IT chore. The question is never only whether this person can post. It is who owns the Page if something goes wrong.

Our default is narrow: task access or partial control for anyone outside the business, full control for two named people inside it, and a review of the list every time someone joins or leaves.

Next step

If a login is ever lost or taken, you will want this list in order before it happens. Our guide on what to do when a brand account is hacked covers that day.

And if your social process is slowing down good ideas, NBK can help rebuild the workflow behind the content.