Transferring ownership
A profile created by a parent does not have to stay hers. When the person it is about is ready — Maya turning sixteen, say — ownership moves to her account in one step, and the parent chooses how, or whether, to stay on.
What a transfer is
How ownership transfer works
A one-way handover of a profile to its own account. The parent chooses to stay on as co-manager or drop to read-only.
Only the primary guardian can arm a transfer. It creates a single-use link that expires after 72 hours; claiming it moves profile ownership and the primary-guardian seat to the new account in one step.
The parent picks a continuing role when arming: co-manager to keep logging, or viewer for read-only. Afterwards that access is an ordinary membership — the new owner can remove it at any time.
Every past entry keeps its original "logged by" attribution, and the transfer is one-way: there is no undo, only a new transfer back.
Source: lunarlog's sharing model · Last reviewed
Before the handover
Transfer is deliberate and one-way — there is no undo, only a new transfer back. A few things to know first:
- The transfer does not move data anywhere: the profile and every entry in it stay exactly where they are. What changes is who the account that owns it is, and with it the Primary Guardian seat.
- Attribution never changes: every past entry keeps whoever originally logged it, so the record Dana kept during Maya's early days stays marked as Dana's.
- If the new owner later deletes her account, this profile's history goes with it — worth a conversation before arming the transfer.
The parent's side
- Open the profile's guardian management and choose Transfer ownership. Only the profile's Primary Guardian can arm a transfer.
- Choose the role you keep. The two offers, in the app's words: Co-Parent: keep logging entries and managing this profile. or Viewer: read-only access to their calendar and entries.. Afterwards that access is an ordinary membership — the new owner can change or remove it at any time.
- Confirm. The app states the handover — Maya will become the Primary Guardian of this profile. You'll keep access as Co-Parent, and they can remove that access at any time. — and creates a single-use link that expires after 72 hours. Send it to Maya; the pending transfer shows as Waiting for them to open the link until she claims it.
Maya's side
- Maya opens the link on her own device, signed in to her own account. The claim screen explains it: Claiming this link makes you this profile's Primary Guardian. The parent who shared it keeps the role they chose, and every past entry stays with whoever originally logged it.
- She confirms with Become Primary Guardian. Ownership and the primary-guardian seat move to her account in one step; Dana keeps the role she chose, from then on as an ordinary guardian.
That is the whole ceremony. Nothing about Maya's log changes on the surface — same history, same estimates — and the family keeps sharing it exactly as before, now with its subject as its owner.