How to delete a user from your organization?

Delete a user account

As an Administrator, When a user leaves your organization, you can delete their account. 

Super administrators can transfer a user's drive files and data to a new owner. If you don't transfer the content to another user, the content will be deleted.

A deleted user can't access any of your organization’s Google Workspace services. 

Before deleting a user:

• Transfer the user's email data;

If you want to transfer a user's email to another account, do it before you delete the account. If you don’t, their email will disappear, and you can't retrieve it. For details, go to Migrate email with the data migration service.

• Transfer important files and data;

You can only transfer files and data owned by the user. The person you transfer the data to becomes the new owner. Files that the user doesn't own aren't affected. Content that's not transferred to another user is deleted. Drive files owned by the user are deleted after 20 days but aren't accessible during this period unless you recover the user.

Any administrator can transfer ownership of the user’s Drive files, including files in shared drives before the user is deleted. Learn more

Steps to delete a user:

1. Sign in to your Google admin console > Go to Menu > Directory > Users.
2. Choose an option:

To Delete a single user

• In the Users list, find the user. 
• Point to the user you want to delete and click More options > Delete user.

To Delete multiple users

• Check the box next to each user that you want to delete.
  Tip: If all users you want to delete belong to the same organizational unit, select it on the left to find the users more easily.
• At the top-right corner, click More options > Delete selected users.

3. To transfer ownership of user content:

• If you don't want to transfer the user's data, next to Data in other apps, select Don't transfer data.

• If you do want to transfer the user's data: 
  
  ->  Next to Data in other apps, select Transfer.
  ->  In the Search for a user field, enter the name or email address of the user to whom you want to transfer the files deleted user’s files.
  
  
• Under Select data to transfer, check the boxes next to each option you want.
  
  
  

  4. Click Delete user.