How to protect your Figma account while you are alive

There is no way to name a successor on a Figma account. Ownership of files, folders and teams moves only when the current owner or an admin transfers it from a signed-in session.^{1, 2, 3}

On every plan, the creator of a file or folder is its owner and can hand ownership to a collaborator from the share modal. The recipient must already be a collaborator on the shared file or folder.¹

A file sitting in drafts can be transferred to anyone it has been shared with, including someone outside the team.¹

A separate team owner role exists only on Organization and Enterprise, where the current owner can transfer ownership to any team member, including one holding a free View seat.²

Starter and Professional teams have only admin, editor and viewer roles, any admin manages settings, members and billing, and a sole admin must promote someone else before leaving. On Professional, promoting a member to admin leaves the billing details unchanged.²

Any plan can send a folder or a team to a different account, but only Professional, Organization or Enterprise can receive a folder, and only Organization or Enterprise can receive a team.³

Transfers carry files, prototypes, comments, version history and branches, and do not carry shared fonts, private plugins or published Community resources.³

Figma's own formats (.fig, .jam, .deck) open only in Figma products, and a .fig export reopens in Figma later but carries no permissions, comments or version history. The account-deletion checklist recommends exporting both ways.⁴

PNG, SVG, JPG and PDF exports open outside Figma but are flat, and lose layers and editability.⁵