Manage groups from an iOS device

This page is for administrators who manage groups for an organization. To manage groups for your own account, visit Google Groups help. You must be a Super Admin to perform these tasks.

With Google Groups, you and your team can send email messages and meeting invitations, as well as share documents, using a single group address.

When you add a user to a group, you can easily assign them a role: owner, manager, or member. Their role determines what they can do in the group.

Manage groups

Create a group
  1. Open the Google Admin app . Set up now.
  2. If necessary, tap Menu and thenthe Down arrow to switch to your super administrator account.
  3. Tap Menu and thenGroups.
  4. Tap Add and enter the following details: 
    Option Description
    Group name
    Enter a name that identifies the group in lists and messages. Use these guidelines:
    • Use up to 73 characters for the names.
    • Use names that make it easy to identify the group’s purpose.
    Group email

    Enter an email address for the group. If more than one domain is displayed, select the appropriate domain from the list. Follow these guidelines:

    • Email addresses can be up to 63 characters long. This limit doesn't include the domain portion of the address, such as @gmail.com.
    • Some words are reserved and can't be used as email addresses. View reserved words.

    If you're creating your group in a work or school account, your email address might include a suffix, such as -user-created. For example, if your group name is training, the actual email address might be training-user-created@your_domain.

    Group description

    (Optional) To add information to the group’s About page, enter the purpose of the group or how it's used. You could include information about group members, group content, an FAQ, links to related groups, and so on.

  5. Tap Done .
Edit groups details

You can edit any group in your domain to change its name, email address, or description.

  1. Open the Google Admin app . Set up now.
  2. If necessary, tap Menu and thenthe Down arrow to switch to your super administrator account.
  3. Tap Menu and thenGroups.
  4. In the groups list, tap the name of the group whose details you're changing and tap Edit.
  5. Make your changes in the Edit groups section and tap Save.
Delete a group
  1. Open the Google Admin app . Set up now.
  2. If necessary, tap Menu and thenthe Down arrow to switch to your super administrator account.
  3. Tap Menu and thenGroups.
  4. In the groups list, tap the name of the group you want to remove and tap Delete.
  5. Tap Delete to confirm.

Manage group members

Add members to a group

You can add members individually or add all members of another group.

  1. Open the Google Admin app . Set up now.
  2. If necessary, tap Menu and thenthe Down arrow to switch to your super administrator account.
  3. Tap Menu and thenGroups.
  4. In the groups list, tap the name of the group to which you're adding a member.
  5. Tap Add member and choose an option:
    • To add users, tap Existing user and select the user.
    • To add external users, tap External user and enter their email addresses. Then, tap Member and assign a role.
    • To add a group, tap Groups and select any group you want to add.
  6. Tap Add.
Change a member’s role
  1. Open the Google Admin app . Set up now.
  2. If necessary, tap Menu and thenthe Down arrow to switch to your super administrator account.
  3. Tap Menu and thenGroups.
  4. Tap the name of a group.
  5. On the members list, tap the member's name whose role you're changing.
  6. Tap Change role and set the role for the member.
  7. Tap Change role to confirm.
Remove a group member
  1. Open the Google Admin app . Set up now.
  2. If necessary, tap Menu and thenthe Down arrow to switch to your super administrator account.
  3. Tap Menu and thenGroups.
  4. Tap the name of the member you want to remove from the group and tap Remove member.
  5. Tap Remove member to confirm.

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