As an administrator, you can make another user an admin so they can help manage tasks for your organization.
Important
- Make sure you only share management of your organization's account with people you trust.
- Admins working at the same time on settings in the Google Admin console can overwrite each other with no warning. Make sure all admins refresh pages before and after making changes. For example, if you're entering information for Gmail settings using a recipient address map and another admin adds information and saves, your updates might get lost.
Add an admin
The steps to add an admin depend on how your organization or team signed up for Google Workspace:
- Domain verified—You verified ownership of your organization's domain.
- Email verified—You verified your business email address.
If you're a team administrator of an email-verified Google service —such as Google Workspace Business or Essentials, or Chrome Enterprise)—you can let another user manage your team's services by giving them an administrator role, too. When a user with a team admin role signs in to their Google Account, they'll have access to additional management controls.
Important: Assign the team admin role only to people you trust. With an email-verified account, all team admins can:
- Invite new users, which increases your monthly bill if you have a paid subscription.
- Remove users from the team, including other admins.
- Manage billing, if you have a paid subscription.
- Cancel your team's subscription.
- Gain access to files owned by others, including files owned by other admins.
Additionally, we recommend that all team admins protect their accounts with 2-Step Verification.
Make a team member an admin
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Sign in with a super administrator account to the Google Admin console.
If you aren’t using a super administrator account, you can’t complete these steps.
- Go to Menu
Directory > Users.
- In the Users list, find the user. If you need help, see Find a user account.
- Click the user’s name to open their account page.
- Click Admin roles and privileges.
- Next to the Super Admin (email verified) role, click the slider so it's marked Assigned
.
- Click Save.
- (Optional) To return to the user’s account page, at the top right, click the Up arrow
.
Important: Have each administrator add recovery options to their account.
The user typically gets their new privileges within a few minutes. However, it can take up to 24 hours. When they sign in to their account, they arrive at the Admin console Home page. Here they see the controls allowed by their privileges.
Change your admin
If you are your team's only admin, follow these steps to transfer that role to a different team member:
- Assign the role to the new admin as shown above.
- Have the new admin remove the role from the original admin. Go to Remove Google Workspace administrator privileges.
These steps ensure that your organization always has at least one admin.
