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# CKShare.ParticipantRole.administrator

The participant has the administrator role.

```
case administrator
```

## Discussion

An administrator of a share can add and remove participants and change their permissions.

CloudKit returns shares with `administrator` participants as read-only to devices running OS versions prior to this role being introduced.
CloudKit returns administrator participants on such read-only shares as [`CKShare.ParticipantRole.privateUser`](/documentation/CloudKit/CKShare/ParticipantRole/privateUser).

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