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Transferring ownership of a GitHub App

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You can transfer ownership of a GitHub App to another user or organization.

About transferring GitHub Apps

The owner of a GitHub App can transfer ownership of the GitHub App to another user or organization. If an organization has designated any app managers for an app owned by the organization, the app managers can also transfer ownership of the GitHub App. For more information about app managers, see "Adding and removing GitHub App managers in your organization."

You can only transfer ownership to a user or organization. You cannot transfer ownership to a team.

Transferring a GitHub App

  1. Navigate to your account settings.

    • For a GitHub App owned by a personal account, in the upper-right corner of any page, click your profile photo, then click Settings.
    • For a GitHub App owned by an organization, in the upper-right corner of any page, click your profile photo, then click Your organizations. Then, to the right of the organization, click Settings.

  2. In the left sidebar, click Developer settings.

  3. In the left sidebar, click GitHub Apps. Screenshot of the "Developer Settings" page in GitHub. An option labelled "GitHub Apps" is outlined in dark orange.

  4. Select the GitHub App whose ownership you want to transfer.

  5. In the left sidebar, click Advanced.

  6. Click Transfer ownership.

  7. Under "Type the name of the GitHub App to confirm", type the name of the GitHub App you want to transfer.

  8. Under "New owner's GitHub username or organization name", type the name of the user or organization you want to transfer the GitHub App to.

  9. Click Transfer this GitHub App.