Change the workspace Owner

You change the Owner of a workspace under Danger Zone in Settings for a team workspace.

Only the Owner can change it. A personal workspace has no Transfer ownership item.

Change the Owner

You cannot change it back yourself

Once you change the Owner, you can no longer change it yourself. To change it back, ask the new Owner to change it to you.

1. Open Danger Zone in Settings for the workspace.
2. In Transfer ownership, click Transfer. The Transfer Ownership screen opens.
3. Under Select the new owner, choose the member to make the Owner. You can choose only one member, whose role is Admin or Writer.
4. Click Transfer Ownership on the screen. There is no confirmation step: the change takes effect as soon as you click.

Once you change the Owner, Ownership transferred successfully! and You are now an admin of this workspace. appear, and General in Settings opens. The member you chose becomes the Owner, and your own role changes to Admin. As an Admin, the operations you can perform in Settings change.

For which members you can make the Owner, see Workspace. For the operations each role can perform, see Members and roles.