Google Workspace: Revoking Admin Status to Delete a Workspace Account
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If you need to delete a Google Workspace user who is currently an Admin for your organization, you will need to first revoke their Admin status.
If the account you need to delete is your own Admin account, you will first need to assign an Admin role to a different business email user in your organization. Alternatively, you can change your username if your email is the only business email in the account.
If the account you need to delete is the same one you use to access the Admin console, you will first need to create a second Google Workspace Admin account.
In this article, learn how to:
Revoking an Admin status for another user
- Log into the Google Admin console using your Admin account.
- Click Users on the Admin console home page.
- Click the name of the Admin whose privileges you wish to revoke.
- Click Admin roles and privileges.
- Click Roles.
- Disable the Super Admin toggle.
- Click Save.
Revoking your own Admin status
- Log into the Google Admin console using your Admin account.
- Click Users on the Admin console home page.
- Click the name of the user who you want to be the new Admin.
- Click Admin roles and privileges.
- Click Roles, and enable the Super Admin toggle.
- Click Save.
- Log into the Google Admin Console using the newly-assigned Admin account username.
- Click Users on the Admin console home page.
- Click the name of the Admin whose privileges you wish to revoke.
- Click Admin roles and privileges.
- Click Roles.
- Disable the Super Admin toggle.
- Click Save.
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