Make a user an admin

Choose 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

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If you're a super administrator for a domain-verified Google Workspace account, you can make someone else in your organization an administrator to help you perform management tasks. This way, if you’re busy or on vacation, someone else can help with tasks like resetting passwords and adding or deleting user accounts. 

An administrator (or admin) account is a Google Workspace account that has access to the Google Admin console. When a user with an admin role signs in to their Google Account, they have access to additional management controls where they can do things like add users to your account and manage their services. Exactly what they can manage depends on the roles or privileges that you give them.

Important: Make sure you share management of your organization's account only with people you trust.

Make a user a super admin

Here's how to grant a user full access to your Admin console:

You must be signed in as a super administrator for this task.

1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

   Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges (does not end in @gmail.com).

2. In the Admin console, go to Menu  DirectoryUsers.
3. In the Users list, find the user. For tips, go to Find a user account.
4. Click the user’s name to open their account page.
5. Click Admin roles and privileges.

   

6. Click the Super Admin role.

   This displays a  slider next to each role.

7. Next to the Super Admin role,  click the slider so it's marked Assigned  .
8. Click Save.

   Tip: In the Privileges section below, you can see all the user's privileges.

9. Important: Have the new administrator add recovery options to their account

The user typically becomes an admin within a few minutes. However, it can take up to 24 hours.

When an admin with the Super Admin role signs in to their account, they arrive at the Admin console Home page. Here, they see all controls for managing your organization's user accounts and services.

Assign specific admin roles

If you don't want to give a user full access to the Google Admin console, you can let them perform only a subset of administrative tasks. For example, you might want an admin to manage user accounts but not security settings.

Learn more at Assign specific Admin roles to users.

Change your super admin

You must be signed in as a super administrator for this task.

If you are your organization's only super administrator, you can transfer that role to a different user.

Note: Following these steps, you also transfer the ownership of the organization to the new super admin.

1. Assign the role to the new admin. Follow steps above at Make a user a super admin.
2. Have the new super 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 super admin.

Related topic

• Remove Google Workspace administrator privileges