Remove or adjust access

Who can use this feature

Supported on any plan.

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

Only admins can adjust people's access to a 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 a project determine their maximum access to the files in that project.

People have a seat in both a Figma Design and FigJam. Only people with a full seat on a product can edit files 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, a full Figma Design seat, and a viewer-restricted seat in 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 seat type in Figma Design or FigJam.
   • Select Remove to remove their access to the project.
3. Team or organization admins can adjust the person's FigJam and Figma Design seat:
   • Manage team members and permissions →
   • Manage organization members and guests →

Adjust team access

Professional, Organization, and Enterprise 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. Select the team you wish to modify access for. A modal displays a list of team members and their current level of access.
4. Click Change access.
5. Select one of the following:
   • Same as the team: Team members can access the project based on their team-level permissions. For example, if a user has can view team permissions, and the team access level for the project is set to can access, then the user has can view access on the project.
   • View-only: 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.
   • Disable: Team members will no longer be able to access the project. You’ll need to invite them back to the project with can view or can edit access.

Files

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

Open the share modal from a file

Open the share modal from the file browser

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

Team permissions	File permissions	Seat type	File access
Can view	Can view	Viewer-restricted	View only
Can view	Can view	Full	View only
Can view	Can edit	Viewer-restricted	View only
Can view	Can edit	Full	Can edit
Can edit	Can view	Viewer-restricted	View only
Can edit	Can view	Full	Can edit
Can edit	Can edit	Viewer-restricted	View only
Can edit	Can edit	Full	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 the X 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 a seat type in both Figma Design and FigJam. Only people with a full seat in a product can edit a file of that type.

For example: Jenny has can edit access to the team, a full FigJam seat and a viewer-restricted seat in 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 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 seat type in Figma Design or FigJam.
   • 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 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 seat type for FigJam and Figma Design files:
   • Manage team members and permissions →
   • Manage organization members and guests →

Prevent 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 audience setting.
3. Select Only invited people to disable link sharing. Only team members and anyone you invite to the file or project can access the file.
4. Click the ✕ to close the share modal and return to the file.