Delete contact
Namespace: microsoft.graph
Important
APIs under the /beta
version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.
Delete contact.
This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.
Global service | US Government L4 | US Government L5 (DOD) | China operated by 21Vianet |
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✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Permissions
Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.
Permission type | Least privileged permissions | Higher privileged permissions |
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Delegated (work or school account) | Contacts.ReadWrite | Not available. |
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) | Contacts.ReadWrite | Not available. |
Application | Contacts.ReadWrite | Not available. |
HTTP request
A contact from user's default contactFolder.
DELETE /me/contacts/{id}
DELETE /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/contacts/{id}
A contact from a user's top level contactFolder.
DELETE /me/contactFolders/{id}/contacts/{id}
DELETE /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/contactFolders/{id}/contacts/{id}
A contact contained in a child folder of a contactFolder. The example below shows one level of nesting, but a contact can be located in a child of a child and so on.
DELETE /me/contactFolders/{id}/childFolders/{id}/.../contacts/{id}
DELETE /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/contactFolders/{id}/childFolders/{id}/contacts/{id}
Request headers
Header | Value |
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Authorization | Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization. |
Request body
Don't supply a request body for this method.
Response
If successful, this method returns 204 No Content
response code. It doesn't return anything in the response body.
Example
Request
The following example shows a request.
DELETE https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/contacts/{id}
Response
The following example shows the response. Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content