How to Remove a Facebook Business Page Administrator

July 28, 2010 by Jennifer Bourn | 9 Comments

Remove Facebook Business Page AdminA lot of businesses seem to get confused about how to use Facebook for business. So first, I want to clarify that this post is referring to Facebook Business Pages or Facebook Fan Pages as they used to be called and not personal profiles. On personal profiles you have Facebook Friends and on business pages, you have Facebook Fans.

When setting up a Facebook Business Page, a Facebook personal profile is required because each page has to have an administrator that owns the page and is in charge of the page.

Once the Facebook Business Page is created, additional people can be added as administrators for the page. For example, both Brian and I are administrators for the Bourn Creative Facebook Business Page.

If you are the only administrator for your Facebook Business Page, you can not remove yourself as the page administrator. But, once you have two or more people set as administrators, you can remove those who are no longer relevant. For example, you may want to remove yourself as the administrator from a page for an organization you are no longer involved with or a business may want to remove administrator rights for an employee that no longer works for the business.

Note that before you can give administrator rights to someone, they have to Like the Page.

If you need to remove an administrator from a Facebook Business Page, you simply need to:

  1. Open the Facebook Business Page in your browser
  2. Click on the link to See All in the upper right-hand corner of the XXX People Like This box in the left sidebar
  3. Scroll through the list of people who like the page to find the person you want to remove
  4. Click the Remove Admin button to the right of their avatar and name
  5. *As you can see, the process is the same to add a new administrator to a Facebook Business Page

For you visual learners, I’ve grabbed the screen shots of the process and included them below:

 

How to Remove a Facebook Business Page Administrator

 

How to Remove a Facebook Business Page Administrator

 

How to Remove a Facebook Business Page Admin Once you have more than one administrator assigned to a Facebook Business Page, you can also remove an administrator in the Page Editing Window (see screen shot to the left).

Simply click the Edit Page link just below the photo/avatar in the upper left-hand corner of the page. In the page Page Editing Window, look for the Admins section in the grey right-hand sidebar. You’ll see the photo for each Admin person and a link next to them that says Remove Admin. Click the Remove Admin link to remove that person as an administrator.

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    Feedback and Comments:

    1. shawnaeanderson

      Jul 28, 2010 at 08:12

      Sweet!! Thank you!!

      I was handeling SoMe for a business I’m no longer with, and I didn’t want to keep getting the FB alerts for the fan pages weekly stats. Thank you, thank you!!

      Shawna E Anderson
      Jane of All Trades

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    3. Sandra G.

      Aug 09, 2010 at 02:09

      FB did everyone a favor when they put this into place.

      Yet, riddle me this…what do you do when a staffer sets up the company FB page and then leaves the company (think hostile departure) and was the sole admin of the page? Of course, he refuses to transfer or assign admin status to anyone else.

      Is there a solution for that other than deleting the page and starting fresh?

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      • Jennifer Bourn

        Aug 09, 2010 at 02:22

        Sandra – I agree Facebook granting the ability for anyone to remove an admin can be both good and bad. It’s great for the business who has an employee leave the company and they need to be removed. But it can be scary for a business owner or entrepreneur who gives access to the Facebook account to an admin or partner who has the ability to remove the business owner from the page. As always, I advise people to act with caution and be watchful of what is going on and who has access and control.

        At this point, I don’t believe that there are a lot of options other than deleting the page. But what I can suggest is re-activating the exited person’s email address who was the admin for the account and doing a lost password request. If the email is still associated with the page, you can change the password, login, and then change the administrator.

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    4. Apanar

      Nov 01, 2010 at 10:08

      Hi, one of our employees tried to set up a face book page for our center. We want to now delete it but he does not not know how to do so. Can you help. I read in a blog that one can click on edit ubder the photo avatar and then click on delete. Problem is that I do not see a delete page icon anywhere. Can you walk me through this?

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    5. Scott

      Nov 15, 2010 at 04:08

      I have a problem I hope someone can help with. I removed myself as the admin and now there are no admins for the page and thus I cant edit it. It says in the article that you cant remove yourself as the admin without someone else in but I did. I think it may be because of a corruption that happened a week or 2 ago when Bing got implemented into the information box. Any thoughts?? Please help…

      Thank you for this!!!

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      • Jennifer Bourn

        Nov 16, 2010 at 05:58

        Scott – Bummer! I have never heard of that happening before. Yes, it’s true that you can’t remove yourself as an admin unless there is another person designated as an admin as well … it may have been a bug. I’d contact Facebook and see what they can do. If the page still exists, they may be able to help. But if the page is gone, I don’t think there is anything you can do…

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    6. Michelle

      Jan 01, 2012 at 05:42

      Some how my facebook personal page and my facebook business page are one in them same. I clicked on the link that said “use facebook as” and I can’t seem to get them to separate. When you type in my business page, it lists my personal page and asks you to sign up.

      Does anyone know how to fix this? I am frustrated and ready to shut the whole thing down!!!

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