Create phoneAuthenticationMethod

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.

Add a new phone authentication method. A user may only have one phone of each type, captured in the phoneType property. This means, for example, adding a mobile phone to a user with a preexisting mobile phone will fail. Additionally, a user must always have a mobile phone before adding an alternateMobile phone.

Adding a phone number makes it available for use in both Azure multifactor authentication (MFA) and self-service password reset (SSPR), if enabled.

Additionally, if a user is enabled by policy to use SMS sign-in and a mobile number is added, the system attempts to register the number for use in that system.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	✅	✅	✅

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
Delegated (work or school account)	UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All	UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All	Not available.

In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts, the signed-in user must be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role with a supported role permission. The following least privileged roles are supported for this operation.

• Authentication Administrator
• Privileged Authentication Administrator

Users can't add a phone authentication method to their own account.

HTTP request

Add a phone authentication method to another user's account.

POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/authentication/phoneMethods

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type	application/json. Required.

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of a phoneAuthenticationMethod object. The JSON must include phoneNumber and phoneType, but not smsSignInState (which is read-only).

Property	Type	Description
phoneNumber	String	The phone number to text or call for authentication. Phone numbers use the format "+<country code> <number>x<extension>", with extension optional. For example, +1 5555551234 or +1 5555551234x123 are valid. Numbers are rejected when creating/updating if they don't match the required format.
phoneType	String	Possible values are: mobile, alternateMobile, and office.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 201 Created response code and a new phoneAuthenticationMethod object in the response body.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users/kim@contoso.com/authentication/phoneMethods
Content-type: application/json

{
  "phoneNumber": "+1 2065555555",
  "phoneType": "mobile"
}

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Models;

var requestBody = new PhoneAuthenticationMethod
{
	PhoneNumber = "+1 2065555555",
	PhoneType = AuthenticationPhoneType.Mobile,
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Users["{user-id}"].Authentication.PhoneMethods.PostAsync(requestBody);

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

mgc-beta users authentication phone-methods create --user-id {user-id} --body '{\
  "phoneNumber": "+1 2065555555",\
  "phoneType": "mobile"\
}\
'

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v0.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodels.NewPhoneAuthenticationMethod()
phoneNumber := "+1 2065555555"
requestBody.SetPhoneNumber(&phoneNumber) 
phoneType := graphmodels.MOBILE_AUTHENTICATIONPHONETYPE 
requestBody.SetPhoneType(&phoneType) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
phoneMethods, err := graphClient.Users().ByUserId("user-id").Authentication().PhoneMethods().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

PhoneAuthenticationMethod phoneAuthenticationMethod = new PhoneAuthenticationMethod();
phoneAuthenticationMethod.setPhoneNumber("+1 2065555555");
phoneAuthenticationMethod.setPhoneType(AuthenticationPhoneType.Mobile);
PhoneAuthenticationMethod result = graphClient.users().byUserId("{user-id}").authentication().phoneMethods().post(phoneAuthenticationMethod);

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const phoneAuthenticationMethod = {
  phoneNumber: '+1 2065555555',
  phoneType: 'mobile'
};

await client.api('/users/kim@contoso.com/authentication/phoneMethods')
	.version('beta')
	.post(phoneAuthenticationMethod);

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\PhoneAuthenticationMethod;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\AuthenticationPhoneType;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new PhoneAuthenticationMethod();
$requestBody->setPhoneNumber('+1 2065555555');
$requestBody->setPhoneType(new AuthenticationPhoneType('mobile'));

$result = $graphServiceClient->users()->byUserId('user-id')->authentication()->phoneMethods()->post($requestBody)->wait();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Identity.SignIns

$params = @{
	phoneNumber = "+1 2065555555"
	phoneType = "mobile"
}

New-MgBetaUserAuthenticationPhoneMethod -UserId $userId -BodyParameter $params

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.phone_authentication_method import PhoneAuthenticationMethod
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.authentication_phone_type import AuthenticationPhoneType
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = PhoneAuthenticationMethod(
	phone_number = "+1 2065555555",
	phone_type = AuthenticationPhoneType.Mobile,
)

result = await graph_client.users.by_user_id('user-id').authentication.phone_methods.post(request_body)

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/json

{
  "phoneNumber": "+1 2065555555",
  "phoneType": "phoneType-value",
  "smsSignInState": "ready",
  "id": "3179e48a-750b-4051-897c-87b9720928f7"
}