Who can use this feature

Supported on any teams or plans.

Team admins, owners, and anyone with can edit access or Admins can adjust file and project permissions.

Only team admins can adjust people's Figma design and FigJam roles in the team or organization.

In this article, we'll cover how to remove or adjust people's access to individual files or projects. If you want to remove someone from a team or organization, follow the guides below:

• Remove access to teams →
• Remove organization members and guests →

Projects

Adjust or remove permissions

If you've invited someone to a project, they will have explicit permissions on that project. You can adjust their permissions to upgrade, downgrade, or remove their access to files in that project.

Starter or Education

1. Click the Share button in the top-right corner.
2. Click the member's current permissions
   • Select Can view to remove their edit access. They can still view and comment on any files and prototypes.
   • Select Can edit to grant them edit access to any files in this project.
   • Select Remove to remove their access to the project.

Professional, Organization, or Enterprise

In Professional, Organization, or Enterprise teams, a person's permissions on the projects will determine their maximum access to the files in that project.

People have both a Figma design and FigJam role. Only people with editor roles on a product can edit file of that type.

For example: Jenny works at an agency and is helping the team build out their design system. The team owner gave Jenny edit access to the Design system project, an editor role on Figma design, and a viewer-restricted role on FigJam. Even though she has edit access to the project, she can only edit the Figma design files in that project.

1. Click the Share button in the top-right corner.
2. Click the member's current permissions
   • Select Can view to remove their edit access. They can still view and comment on any files and prototypes.
   • Select Can edit to grant them edit access to any files in this project. Whether they can edit files in this project will depend on their Figma design or FigJam role.
   • Select Remove to remove their access to the project.
3. Team or organization admins can adjust the person's role for FigJam and Figma design files:
   • Manage team members and permissions →
   • Manage organization members and guests →

Adjust team access

Professional teams can also adjust the team's access to the project.

This allows people to restrict access to specific project, as well as give members permissions on a project that differ from their team permissions.

To adjust or remove team access for a project:

1. Open the project in the file browser.
2. Click the Share button in the top-right corner.
3. Click Members of team name and select the team access.
   • Can view: Only the project creator or owner can edit a view-only project. Team members can only view files in this project, even if they have can edit permissions on the team.
   • Can edit: The default permission for team projects. Members can access projects based on their team-level permissions and their FigJam or Figma design role.
   • Remove team access: If you create an invite-only project, team members won't have access to this project. To give them access, invite them to the project with can view or can edit access. Invite to projects, files, and prototypes →

Team permissions	Project permissions	File or project access
Can view	Can view	View files only
Can view	Can edit	Edit project and files
Can view	Invite-only	View only (if invited)
Can edit	Can view	View only
Can edit	Can edit	Edit project and files
Can edit	Invite-only	Can edit (if invited)

Files

Manage access to files and prototypes from the file's share modal. Open the share modal:

• A

  Toolbar in a file

  Click the Share button in the toolbar. You'll find this in the top-right corner of the file or prototype.

  

• B

  File browser

  1. Right-click on the file.
  2. Select Share from the options.

  

Team permissions	File permissions	Role	File access
Can view	Can view	Viewer-restricted	View only
Can view	Can view	Editor	View only
Can view	Can edit	Viewer-restricted	View only
Can view	Can edit	Editor	Can edit
Can edit	Can view	Viewer-restricted	View only
Can edit	Can view	Editor	Can edit
Can edit	Can edit	Viewer-restricted	View only
Can edit	Can edit	Editor	Can edit

Adjust or remove access

If you've invited someone to a file, they will have explicit permissions on that file. You can adjust their permissions on the file to upgrade, downgrade, or remove their access to that file.

When you remove someone's access to a file, Figma will prevent them from being able to view or edit the file. If they access the file via the URL, they will see a 404 error message.

Starter or Education

1. Click the Share button in the toolbar.
2. Click the member's current access .
   • Select Can view to remove their edit access. They can still view and comment on the file and any prototypes.
   • Select Can edit to grant them edit access to the file. In Figma design files, they'll also be able to create and view prototypes for that file.
   • Select Owner to transfer ownership of the file to this member. This will also give them edit access to the file.
   • Select Remove to remove their access to the file.
3. Click ✕ to close the share modal and return to the file.

Professional, Organization, or Enterprise

In Professional, Organization, and Enterprise teams, a person's permissions on the file will determine the maximum access to their file.

People have both a Figma design and FigJam role. Only people with editor roles on a product can edit file of that type.

For example: Jenny has can edit access to the team, an editor role on FigJam and a viewer-restricted role on Figma design. Even though she has edit access to the team, she can only edit the team's FigJam files.

1. Click the Share button in the toolbar.
2. Click the team member's permissions .
   • Select Can view to remove their edit access. They can still view and comment on the file and any prototypes.
   • Select Can edit to grant them edit access to any files in this project. Whether they can edit the file will depend on their Figma design or FigJam role.
   • Select Owner to transfer ownership of the file to this member. This will also give them edit access to the file.
   • Select Remove to remove their access to the file.
3. Select Remove from the options
4. Click ✕ to close the share modal and return to the file.
5. Team or organization admins can adjust the person's role for FigJam and Figma design files:
   • Manage team members and permissions →
   • Manage organization members and guests →

Remove link sharing

Outside of team or explicit access to a file, file’s also have link sharing settings. This allows you to quickly share links to files and set default permissions for anyone who accesses a file this way.

Disable link sharing to prevent anyone from accessing the file without explicit or inherited permissions.

1. Click the Share button in the toolbar.
2. Click the link sharing setting.
3. Select Only people invited to this file to remove link sharing. Only team members and anyone you invite to the file or project can access the file.
4. Click ✕ to close the share modal and return to the file.