Delete contact

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Delete a contact.

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)	Contacts.ReadWrite	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Contacts.ReadWrite	Not available.
Application	Contacts.ReadWrite	Not available.

HTTP request

A contact from a 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
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required.

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

Here is an example of the request.

HTTP

DELETE https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/contacts/{id}

C#

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

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
await graphClient.Me.Contacts["{contact-id}"].DeleteAsync();

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

CLI

// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc users contacts delete --user-id {user-id} --contact-id {contact-id}

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

Go

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

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)



graphClient.Me().Contacts().ByContactId("contact-id").Delete(context.Background(), nil)

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

Java

GraphServiceClient graphClient = GraphServiceClient.builder().authenticationProvider( authProvider ).buildClient();

graphClient.me().contacts("{id}")
	.buildRequest()
	.delete();

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);

await client.api('/me/contacts/{id}')
	.delete();

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

PHP

<?php

// THIS SNIPPET IS A PREVIEW VERSION OF THE SDK. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);


$graphServiceClient->me()->contacts()->byContactId('contact-id')->delete()->wait();

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.PersonalContacts

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
Remove-MgUserContact -UserId $userId -ContactId $contactId

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

Python

# THE PYTHON SDK IS IN PREVIEW. FOR NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)


await graph_client.me.contacts.by_contact_id('contact-id').delete()

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

Response

Here is an example of the response. Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content