How to Add a Co-host to a Facebook Event

If someone else needs to help with a Facebook event, look for the event's Co-hosts setting while creating or editing it. Facebook uses the term co-host for an additional event host. You need to be managing the relevant event to change that setting. The available choices can differ depending on whether the event was created by your personal account, a Facebook Page, or a group, and whether you are using the app or a browser.

This guide gives you a reliable way to find the setting and check what it means. It does not assume that every account has the same plus icon, Manage button, or search field. Meta's Help Center lists co-hosts as an event setting for private, friends, public, and group events, but it does not establish one tap-by-tap path that applies to every device and host type.

Start with the account that owns the event

Open the event page and check which account or Page is shown as its host. If you created it from your personal profile, work from that profile. If a Page hosts it, you need the appropriate Page access to manage that Page's event. If it belongs to a group, open it in the group context. Switching to the wrong identity can make an edit option disappear even when the event itself is still visible to you.

Meta's Page access guidance says people with appropriate Page access may create, edit, and delete events by the Page. A co-host invitation for one event is a different decision from giving someone access to manage an entire Page. If all the person needs is help with the event, do not grant broad Page access merely because you cannot find the co-host control.

Before inviting anyone, agree on the work they will do: updating details, answering questions, or coordinating guests. Avoid assuming that a co-host can see every response or that they will automatically gain business or advertising permissions. Meta explicitly notes that a personal-account co-host of a Page event cannot see event responses. That is a material limit if your reason for adding them is to monitor RSVPs.

Add a co-host while creating a new event

Start an event from the intended host profile, Page, or group. Enter the title, date, time, place or online details, and the audience settings you actually want. Review the audience before publishing: Meta says an event's privacy setting cannot be changed after creation. A Page-hosted event is public. A group event follows the group's privacy setting. These choices affect who can find the event and may affect which co-host options you see.

In the event creation flow, look for Event settings, Co-hosts, or a similarly named field. If it appears, search for the intended person or Page, select the correct result, and review the selection before you finish creating the event. The exact controls may be on a later screen rather than beside the title and date. Do not create a public event accidentally while looking for a Page co-host; decide the event's privacy first.

After creation, open the event page and inspect the host listing. If the invited account is pending, do not describe them publicly as a confirmed co-host yet. Ask the other party to check the event and any invitation available to them. We could not verify a universal acceptance screen from current first-party Help that covers all event types, so follow the actual status shown in the event rather than assuming that a search result immediately grants access.

Add a co-host to an event that already exists

Open the event you manage, then look for an Edit or event-management control. Within the editor, find Event settings and the Co-hosts field if it is available. Choose the intended person or Page from the results, then save or update the event. Reopen the event and check the host list. On a phone, the editor may be behind a menu; on a desktop browser it may be visible near the event details. The wording can change, so use the field's purpose as your guide.

Do not change the event's date, location, or audience by accident while editing the co-hosts. Read the whole summary before you save. If the event has already been shared, an unrelated edit can confuse guests. If you are trying to change the event from private to public as a workaround, stop: Meta says the privacy setting is fixed after creation.

If you see the event but cannot edit it, verify that you are signed in with the host identity and have the relevant permissions. A guest, someone who shared the event, or a person who only has access to a related Page may not have the same event-management controls. If the event is Page-hosted, compare your access with Meta's Page access definitions. This is a permissions check, not proof that Facebook has removed co-hosting.

Personal-profile, Page, and group events are different

A personal-profile event is managed from the person's Facebook identity. The co-host options offered to that organizer may not match those offered to a Page. If you cannot find a friend in a picker, verify that you selected the correct account and that the candidate is eligible in the interface you see. We did not find a current Meta Help statement supporting a universal rule that every profile can add any account or Page, so do not force a broader claim onto the setting.

A Page event is hosted publicly, according to Meta's event-privacy Help. The person editing it also needs appropriate access to the Page's events. A Page co-host, a personal-account co-host, and a Page manager are not interchangeable roles. In particular, Meta says a personal-account co-host of a Page event cannot see event responses. If RSVP visibility is necessary, verify the actual event and Page permissions rather than assuming the co-host label grants it.

A group event takes its visibility from the group's privacy. If the group is private, an outsider may not be able to view the event simply because you want to name them as a co-host. Look at the group and event settings available to you. Do not promise that a group co-host invitation bypasses membership or privacy rules; Meta's Help identifies group co-hosts as an event setting but does not document such a bypass.

If the co-host field is missing

First check the simple causes: Are you looking at the event from the correct host identity? Are you in the editor rather than the public event view? Does your Page role include event management? Are you trying to edit a past or otherwise restricted event? The last possibility depends on Facebook's current UI; treat it as a question to investigate, not a rule that every past event is locked.

Next, try the same event in a browser if you started in the mobile app, or in the app if the desktop editor is not showing a useful control. This is a troubleshooting suggestion, not a guarantee that one surface offers more permissions. Update the Facebook app through the official store if it is out of date, then check again. Avoid giving a third-party extension account access just to reveal a menu item.

If the intended co-host's name does not appear, confirm the spelling and the exact Page or profile with them. An event may permit one type of account and not another under your particular settings. Do not create a second copy of the event merely to test the search picker; duplicate event pages can confuse guests. Use Facebook Help or the in-app report path with the event type, device, and a description of the missing control if the problem persists.

Check the result before sharing responsibility

After saving, return to the event page and confirm who is listed as host or co-host. Have the invited person inspect the event from their own account. Ask them to verify the specific task you need them to perform; a visible co-host label alone does not prove that they can see a guest list, edit every field, or manage the Page. If they cannot perform the intended task, review the event type and permissions rather than guessing.

Tell attendees clearly who can answer event questions, and keep crucial details such as time and place in the event itself. If you later remove a co-host, check that the host listing and contact information still make sense. The main goal is a well-managed event with the right people assigned the right access, not merely a second name displayed under its title.