How to Remove an Admin From a Facebook Page.

The short answer

Open the Facebook Page’s Settings, then Page access. Under People with Facebook access, click the person, choose Remove access and confirm with your password. You need full control of the Page yourself. If the Page is managed through a Business portfolio, or the person has task access, remove them in Business settings instead.

Why this is a same-day job

Someone leaves, or an agency contract ends, and their access to the Page stays exactly where it was until somebody takes it away. Operations teams that treat offboarding as a checklist item do it on the last day. Teams that treat it as admin do it when someone remembers.

The removal itself takes a minute. Finding out which screen holds the person’s access is what takes the time, because a Page can grant access in more than one place. We would always start there.

Full control and partial control

Pages on the New Pages Experience grant Facebook access at one of two levels. Apaya’s July 2026 guide to Page access sets them out plainly, and the difference decides who can remove whom.

• Full control can do everything: post, reply, see insights, add and remove people, change access levels and delete the Page. A person with full control can also remove you.
• Partial control runs the Page day to day: posts, comments, messages and insights. It cannot manage anyone’s access, remove you or delete the Page.

So to remove someone, you need full control yourself. If you only have partial control, the job belongs to whoever holds full control.

The same guide says the New Pages Experience retired the old Admin, Editor and Moderator labels.

Step 1: Find where their access lives

Before you click anything, work out which of three places the person’s access sits in:

1. Facebook access on the Page itself, which is the Page access screen.
2. Task access, the narrower roles closer to the old Editor and Moderator setup. Apaya notes these are assigned through a Business portfolio in Business settings, not on the Page.
3. A Business portfolio that manages the Page. When a Page is run that way, Apaya says people are added in Business settings rather than on the Page.

A leaver can appear in more than one of these. Check all three, or you will remove one route and leave another open. Access is far easier to audit when it was granted deliberately in the first place, which is the case for setting up a Facebook business Page properly from day one.

Step 2: Remove them in Page access

On a Page using the New Pages Experience:

1. Open the Page’s Settings.
2. Open Page access.
3. Under People with Facebook access, click the person.
4. Choose Remove access.
5. Confirm with your password if Facebook asks for it.

Apaya says their access ends right away. Some guides reach the same screen through the Professional Dashboard, then Page Access, so if Settings looks different on your account, try that route.

Once it is done, look at the list again. The point is that only the people you mean to have access still have it.

If the Page still shows Page roles

Some guides describe a Page roles section rather than Page access, with roles such as Admin, Editor, Moderator, Advertiser and Analyst. If your Page settings show that screen, the job is the same shape: find the person in the list, choose to remove them and confirm.

Whichever screen you see, the rule from above still applies. You can only remove someone if your own access allows it.

Step 3: Remove them in Meta Business Suite

If the Page sits inside a Business portfolio, the person may have access through the business rather than the Page. Izoate’s guide describes this route:

1. Open Meta Business Suite and go to Settings.
2. Open the list of people, which the guide reaches through Users, then People.
3. Find the person and click the three dots next to their name.
4. Choose Remove or Revoke Access.

Check this for every leaver, even if you have already removed them from the Page. Clearing one route tells you nothing about the other.

When Facebook will not let you remove someone

The common reasons are mundane. Izoate’s guide lists three usual reasons: you do not have full control yourself, the person is the primary owner, or a recent password change has triggered a security waiting period.

There is also a deliberate safeguard. Apaya describes a short waiting period after someone is newly given full control, before they can remove other full-control people or delete the Page. It protects you from a new admin acting fast, but it is not a reason to hand full control out freely.

If none of those explain it, check whether another business owns the Page. That case is next.

When the old agency owns the Page

This is the version that catches brands out. If the Page is owned by a different business account, such as the agency that set it up, Izoate notes you may not be able to change roles on your side until that owner releases it.

You cannot fix that with a click. You need the agency to hand the Page back to your own Business portfolio, and that is far easier to agree while the relationship is still friendly.

We would make it part of any agency offboarding: confirm who owns the Page before the final invoice, not after. Ownership, access and handover belong in the same written process, which is the kind of system our workflow and operations consulting work puts in place.

The access you cannot remove

Apaya makes the point bluntly. If someone was given your password rather than proper access, there is nothing on the Page access screen to remove.

So the fix is a password change rather than a removal. That is why proper access matters before anyone leaves. A Page with named people at named levels can lose one of them in a minute.

The same logic sits behind choosing a Page over a personal profile for anything a team runs, which we set out in Page or professional mode.

Do not become the only person with full control

Removing people can leave a Page with a single full-control holder. Apaya warns that if that person then loses access to their own Facebook account, getting the Page back is slow and sometimes a dead end. Its advice is to keep a second trusted person with full control.

We agree, with one condition: that second person should be someone inside the business, not a supplier.

What good looks like

A Page that handles leavers well has a short, written routine:

• One named owner inside the business who holds full control, plus one trusted backup.
• Everyone else on partial control or task access, at the lowest level that lets them do the job.
• A record of who has access, and through which route: the Page, task access or the Business portfolio.
• Removal on the person’s last day, checked against all three routes.
• Page ownership sitting in the brand’s own Business portfolio, never only in an agency’s.

None of this is hard. It just needs to be written down and owned.

Next step

If you are not sure who can get into your Facebook Page today, that is the first thing to find out. If your team is posting regularly but still feels stuck, NBK can help find the constraint in the system.