# Quicksight user identity type change

**URL:** <https://community.amazonquick.com/t/quicksight-user-identity-type-change/6320>\
**Category:** Q&A\
**Tags:** super-admin, administration, feature-request, user-group, quick-sight\
**Created:** [September 27, 2022, 10:50am UTC](https://community.amazonquick.com/t/quicksight-user-identity-type-change/6320 "2022-09-27T10:50:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![ArtSal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f475e1/32.png) [@ArtSal](https://community.amazonquick.com/u/ArtSal)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2022, 10:50am UTC](https://community.amazonquick.com/t/quicksight-user-identity-type-change/6320/1 "2022-09-27T10:50:11Z")

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Hi,

@Jesse @Naveed

I would like to enable groups management UI as per:

> **[Amazon QuickSight launches Groups Management UI](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/03/amazon-quicksight-groups-management-ui/)**

My admin user’s “IdentityType” is “QUICKSIGHT” and it needs to be “IAM” in order to enable the feature.  
Is it possible to amend the identity type without changing the user name and loosing access to all the QS resources?  
Creating an IAM user with the same name doesn’t work.

Is there any workaround if the amendment is not possible?

Thanks, A

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**Author:** ![ravikadi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ravikadi](https://community.amazonquick.com/u/ravikadi)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2022, 4:43pm UTC](https://community.amazonquick.com/t/quicksight-user-identity-type-change/6320/2 "2022-09-27T16:43:43Z")

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Once you create a user, we cannot change the “IdentityType” of the user. You could create another account for the user with different username or delete the existing user and recreate them with IAM permission.

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**Author:** ![Naveed](https://d2orw1595917va.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.amazonquick.com/naveed/32/961_2.png) [@Naveed](https://community.amazonquick.com/u/Naveed)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2022, 5:07pm UTC](https://community.amazonquick.com/t/quicksight-user-identity-type-change/6320/3 "2022-09-27T17:07:53Z")

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@ArtSal

Hi,

No feature seen right now. You can create new and assign all the objects which are used by old one.  
You cannot drop a user until assign all anyalsis or dashboard to other user. Its is good option by AWS to make sure the lose of dev/dataset etc.

One thing more this features is available in "Enterprise "

Regards,  
Naveed

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**Author:** ![DeepakS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@DeepakS](https://community.amazonquick.com/u/DeepakS)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 3:25pm UTC](https://community.amazonquick.com/t/quicksight-user-identity-type-change/6320/4 "2022-10-14T15:25:15Z")

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@ArtSal

Did @Naveed solution work for you? I am marking his reply as, “Solution,” but let us know if this is not resolved. Thanks for posting your questions on the Quick Sight Community Q&A Forum!