Admins are drive members that have been given additional drive, project, and membership management capabilities. Both basic and editor members can be granted admin status by either the drive owner or other drive admins. There's no limit on the number of drive members who can be assigned as admins.

Assign or remove drive admins

Only the drive owner and other admins can give admin status to drive members.

1. Open  Settings and view the Members tab.
2. Click ... next a member's type and choose Make/Remove drive admin. Please note that removing admins privileges does not remove the member from the drive or change their membership type. 

Admin privileges

Drive admins have additional capabilities for managing the drive, project, and other drive members. Below is a list covering that additional privileges available to drive admins.

Manage membership

• Add or remove admins: grant or revoke admin capabilities to other drive members.
• Change membership types: adjust team member roles between editors and basic members on the drive.
• Remove drive access: remove a member's access to the drive.
• Invite link management: set either manual or automatic approval for editor invitations.
• Approve editors: manually approve invited editor users on the drive.
• Control whether Editor members can invite new Editors to their team's Drive.
• Revoke invites: cancel drive access invitations.

Drive management

• View drive subscription: view the drive subscription details.
• Rename drives: change the name of the team drive.
• View transcription minutes: review the drive's transcription activity.
• Quick Recorder default privacy settings: set default settings for recordings made with the Quick Recorder.
• Changing the default save location for new projects.

Project management

• Assign project ownership: make any editor member the owner of a project in the Drive workspace.
• Become owner of any project: assign yourself as the owner of any project in the Drive workspace.