need an easy way to remove old admin (myself) and replace with new admin (my daughter)?

[Willabong]

The above title says it all.
Macbook pro running Catalina.

 

[MacInWin]

Create a new account for your daughter. Make it an Admin account. Log into her account and delete yours.

Note: When you delete your account you will be asked if you want to preserve the files or not. If you say you don't want them, your account will be erased and the data erased as well. If you say you want to keep the data in your account, it will be preserved, but she won't be able to get to it without taking some special steps.

 

[MacInWin]

Or, you can just reset back to factory condition and let her create all new accounts for herself. To do that, boot to recovery and do a full reinstall of the OS, or boot from an external bootable drive and format the internal drive and reinstall the OS.

 

[Willabong]

Jake, where do I find the option to add a new Admin? Never had to do this before so a bit lost?

 

[MacInWin]

Dependiing on the version of macOS, it's in Preferences or Settings, Users & Groups. There should be a button to click to Add a user. When you add her, you set her login and password, then you select if you want her account to Admin or not. Make it an Admin so she (or you, on her account) can delete your old account. Only Admins can create/delete accounts.

 

[Willabong]

I created a new Admin account for my daughter, restarted the Macbook, but I cannot find an option to remove my Admin account?
Sorry for being so thick.

 

[MacInWin]

You have to log into HER account to delete your account. You can't delete an account whilst logged into it.

 

[Willabong]

I understand that, and I am in my daughters account, I've unlocked the account section (user and groups) , so I can see my Admin account, but I cannot find an option to remove it?

 

[MacInWin]

I'm running Sonoma. Here is what I see when I open the Users&Groups:



That doesn't show the account I'm logged into (it's the one just partially seen at the top). So, if I wanted to delete "Clean" I click on the "i" in the circle and I get this:


The button lower left will Delete the User.

Depending on your version of macOS, you should see something similar.

 

[Willabong]

More or less the same, but no "Delete User" button?
My OS is Catalina.

 

[MacInWin]

According to this: Change Users & Groups User preferences on Mac

It says there should be a "+" and "-" button below the list of users. I can't help any more than this. I don't have that version on any Mac I own.

 

[ferrarr]

More or less the same, but no "Delete User" button?
My OS is Catalina.

Then most likely you aer not in an administrator account.

See this,

Delete a user or group on Mac

On your Mac, delete users and groups to remove their access to your Mac. You must be an administrator user.

support.apple.com

 

[Rod]

See if this Apple Support page is more helpful; New user or group setup
It's specific for Catalina. This Apple Support page is very useful for a whole range of things Apple. I suggest you bookmark it.

 

[Willabong]

You were right Jake! The + and - were the settings I needed. I have now removed my Admin account, and the Macbook is set up for my daughter to use!
Thank you for sticking with this, I am now a happy bunny again.

 

[IWT]

Thank you for sticking with this,

Yes; Jake has been very patient and helpful throughout. We all try to emulate him

Ian

 

[MacInWin]

You were right Jake! The + and - were the settings I needed. I have now removed my Admin account, and the Macbook is set up for my daughter to use!
Thank you for sticking with this, I am now a happy bunny again.

Great! One last thing you should do is to associate the machine with her AppleID and take it off of your AppleID. Otherwise things that sync will sync to your account and show up on her machine and vice versa. To do that, log into your AppleID and look at the associated devices and remove the Mac. Then log into her account and her AppleID account and it shoudld then associate with her AppleID.

 

[MacInWin]

Yes; Jake has been very patient and helpful throughout. We all try to emulate him

Ian

Oh, please don't! Not wise...

 

[Rod]

The computer should also be removed from iCloud sync. To do that you also need to sign out of Find My. I'm not sure what happens when you remove your admin account but you would usually need to Deauthorise the device on the app store.
Personally I'm kinda one for doing some things by the book.
Sign out of everything, erase an reinstall the OS has always been my habit because it works. That leaves the new user to set up a device as their own and avoids ID and security conflicts.

 

[Willabong]

Actually Rod, Jake's advice worked perfectly! iCloud was not a problem as it was removed when I deleted my account. My daughter has an iPhone with an Apple ID, so I re-registered iCloud and the App Store with her ID and password, this worked fine with no problems!