How to Change the Owner Of A Power Apps App? [2 Various Ways]

When working with the Power Apps application, we are often required to change its owner if the owner has left the company. We can achieve this in many ways, like using Power Automate and PowerShell.

In this article, I will explain how to change the owner of a Power Apps app in two ways. Such as:

Change the Owner of a Power Apps app using PowerShell
Change the Owner of a Power Apps app using Power Automate

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Change the Owner of a Power Apps Application

The owner of the Power Apps application can share the app while leaving. This ownership change doesn’t affect the users with whom it is shared. If the owner didn’t add any co-owners, the admin could add an owner in many ways, like using PowerShell or Power Automate.

We require the details below to change the Power Apps application’s owner.

Power Apps application App ID
Power Apps Environment ID

Change the Owner of a Power Apps Application Using PowerShell

Follow the steps below to change the Power Apps application owner using PowerShell. Now, to get the Environment ID. Open the Power Apps application.

1. Click on the Settings on the Power Apps application. -> Click on Developer resources.

2. Copy the Environment ID and paste it somewhere.

how to change the owner of the power apps app

3. To copy the App ID, open the Power Apps environment, click on the app, and select the details option. You can see the App ID, copy it, and paste it somewhere.

4. To run the PowerShell code, you can use the editors like Visual Studio code and PowerShell. Run the code below

Install-Module -Name Microsoft.PowerApps.Administration.PowerShell -Force -AllowClobber

Nothing will occur if it is already installed; otherwise, you’ll see the cmdlets installed.

5. Next, run the code below. It will then ask you to authenticate the owner, as in the image below.

Add-PowerAppsAccount

how to set an power apps owner using powershell

6. To change the owner of the Power Apps application. Run the code below.

Set-AdminPowerAppOwner -AppName "<appId>" -EnvironmentName "<envId>" -AppOwner $Global:currentSession.userId

Now copy the App ID and Environment ID in the above code.

-AppName = App ID
-EnvironmentName = Environment ID

Once the code runs successfully, then the app owner changes automatically. You can check the application owner now.

how to change owner of powerapps app using powershell script

The above image shows the owner having changed. Thus, we can change the Power Apps application owner with a PowerShell script.

Change the Owner of a Power Apps Application Using Power Automate

Let’s see how to change the Power Apps application owner using Power Automate. Look at the image below. Before running the flow, the application owner is “Patti Fernandez.”