Transfer design ownership

If you're a Canva Teams, Canva Business, or Canva Enterprise admin, you can transfer someone's content before removing them from your team. This keeps your team's designs and assets accessible.

For Canva Education, this is only available if your school is part of a district team. Only district team admins can do this, and only when removing a member. If a member leaves on their own, their content can't be transferred.

Note: If you don’t have an active Canva Teams, Canva Business, or Canva Enterprise subscription, you’ll need to re-enable ownership transfer when you reactivate your plan.

What gets transferred?

Included: All folders, designs, templates, videos, audio, media uploads, and shared content owned by the removed member
Not included: Comments, activity history, or content the member accessed but didn't own

Transferred content will appear in the

Projects page, organised as it was before the transfer. The transferred content will also keep its sharing permissions.

Transfer designs and content ownership

Ownership transfer is on by default for teams.

If your team was created before 1 June 2026, make sure it's turned on in Settings before you can transfer content. Once enabled, you can transfer content straight away. You can check or change this in Settings at any time.

From Home, select your Profile icon.
Select
Settings.
Scroll and select
Controls.
Next to the Enable Ownership transfer section, toggle the slider button to enable.

Transfer design and content ownership

Before you continue, make sure you have the original owner's consent and follow privacy laws if personal data is involved.

From the top corner of the homepage, select the
gear icon to go to Settings.
From the side menu, select
People.
Next to the person you want to remove, select the role dropdown and select Remove from team.
Select Transfer designs and remove from team.
Confirm you have the consent of the person being removed, and select Continue.
From your team list, select a new owner, and then Continue.
Select Transfer content and remove from team to confirm and finalise the transfer.

This action can’t be undone

The transfer may take several minutes. Larger transfers can take over 30 minutes.

I can’t find ownership transfer settings

If you don't see Enable ownership transfer under

Settings, then

Controls:

Confirm you're a Canva Teams, Canva Business, or Canva Enterprise owner or admin. If you’re using Canva Education, check if your school is part of a district team and that you have admin access.
Check if you're logged into the correct team or account.
Try switching teams or logging in with a different email or social account.

If you’re using Canva Education and your school isn’t part of a district team, you won’t see the ownership transfer setting.

I can’t find the transferred designs

After ownership is transferred, designs appear in a dedicated folder in the new owner's

Projects page, making them easy to locate.

Look for a new folder in
Projects named From [person's name]. The folder is named after the person the designs were transferred from and contains all their transferred designs.
Use the search bar to find specific designs by title.

FAQ

Does the original owner keep access?

No. Once a transfer is complete, the previous owner no longer has access to the transferred designs unless the new owner shares them again.

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