How to request release of your Facebook Page ownership

Do you still have full access to your Page, while an old business account remains its owner? You can submit a request to release that ownership. First, make sure you have the required Page access; then follow the request path and check what can happen next.

Before you submit a request

You need full Facebook access to the Page. Task access does not meet this requirement. A business account must also appear as the owner; if it does not, you will not see Request release. This removes the business account’s ownership of the Page. It does not delete the Facebook Page.

Submitting a request does not approve it or release the Page automatically, even if the business account seems inactive. Business admins can approve or deny the request in Meta Business Suite. If no admin is available to decide, do not assume the request will resolve the ownership issue. Meta says a business admin cannot approve a request for a Page linked to an Instagram account.

Request release from the business account

On Facebook from a computer:

1. Click your profile photo in the top right, then choose See all profiles.
2. Select the Page whose ownership you want released.
3. Click your Page’s profile photo. Open Settings & privacy, then Settings.
4. In the left menu, go to Page setup, then Page access.
5. Below Business Account access, select Request release next to the Page.
6. Select Send request, then Done.

If Request release does not appear, check Business Account access: the option is only available when the Page has a business account owner. Do not delete the Page or remove someone’s access to try to change who owns it.

Check what happens next

The request can be approved or denied during a 30-day pending period. After that, it expires; it does not release the Page automatically. Page admins cannot submit another request while one is pending.

• If approved: the Page is removed from the business account after a 72-hour grace period.
• If denied: the Page remains with the business account, and you can submit another request.
• If the Page is linked to Instagram: a business admin cannot approve the request, according to Meta’s help. The documentation reviewed does not give another way to complete release in this situation.

Read Facebook’s help on requesting release of Page ownership. If you need to review how Instagram connects to a Page, follow the separate guide to connecting Instagram and Facebook; it does not claim that changing the connection releases ownership. If you need to change who can manage the Page, see how to give or remove Facebook Page access; that process changes people’s access, not a business account’s ownership.