Delete contact

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Delete a contact.

Permissions

One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Permissions.

Permission type Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account) Contacts.ReadWrite
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Contacts.ReadWrite
Application Contacts.ReadWrite

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

Do not supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns 204 No Content response code. It does not return anything in the response body.

Example

Request

Here is an example of the request.

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