Manager Accounts (MCC): Unlink accounts from your manager account

If you want to stop managing a particular account, a user with administrative access to the manager account or the client account can unlink the accounts.

This article shows you how to unlink an account from a manager account or from a client account. For more background about what happens when you unlink, review About unlinking accounts from your manager account.

Instructions

To unlink an account from your manager account:

1. Sign in to your Google Ads manager account.
2. From the page menu on the left, click Settings.
3. In the expanded menu, click Sub-account settings.
4. Select the accounts that you want to unlink.
5. On the next page, you’ll see a preview of how your sub-accounts will be affected by the unlinking action. Once you’ve reviewed the changes, click Unlink.

To unlink an account from the individual Google Ads account:

1. Sign in to the managed Google Ads account.
2. Click the tools icon ('Tools and settings') in the upper right-hand corner of your account.
3. Under 'Setup', click Access and security.
4. Click the Managers sub-page.
5. Locate the manager account that you want to unlink from. A dialogue will appear with a preview of how your sub-accounts will be affected by the unlinking action. After you've reviewed the changes, click Unlink.

Related links

Topic page manager accounts (MCC)

• Manager accounts (MCC): Table of content

Hierarchy management

• About the account map
• Viewing hierarchy for your manager account
• Viewing other managers linked to your client accounts
• Moving accounts within a manager account
• Hiding and unhiding accounts

Account linking

• About linking accounts to your manager account
• Link accounts to your manager accounts
• Unlink accounts from your manager account