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Ownership of the board

  • May 14, 2026
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I created and used a Miro board for around 6 months with my tutor (since Oct 2025). I was the original creator and owner of the board.

One day the board suddenly disappeared and showed “Board has been deleted by owner.” I even upgraded my subscription trying to recover it from Trash.

After contacting support, I found out the board still exists, but now belongs to an unknown workspace/team called “kkiaka” that I have never heard of. I no longer have access to my own board, and my access requests receive no response.

I never transferred ownership, never intentionally joined such a workspace, and never removed my own access.

Has anyone experienced something similar with Miro ownership/workspace reassignment? What should I do? I really need this board back as exam is coming soon

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Robert Johnson
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  • May 14, 2026

@Veronika Savarskaya Unfortunately, I have seen this happen to many users over my years on this forum. The scenario usually goes like this:

  1. Someone creates a free Miro account, which creates a Free Plan team of which they are the owner/Team Admin.
  2. They invite someone else (e.g., you) to try Miro by collaborating on one of their boards, which makes that person a full member of their Miro Free Plan team.
  3. Now that this new team member has a Miro account and is a part of a team, they create one or more boards, which results in the team being over the 3-editable boards limit, causing everyone else’s boards to become VIEW-ONLY.
  4. So, a Team Admin starts deleting people from the team. When they do this, several things happen:
    1. The previous board owner loses access to the board as boards are linked to the team in which they were created (unless, of course, the board owner was a member of another team and first moved the boards to the over team – an action that only board owners can do).
    2. And, when a user is removed to the only team space they were a member of, Miro detects that the user is no longer a member of any team and prompts them to create a new team.

The above (and a few possible paths to recover) are in this post I put together about three years ago: