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. 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/v1.0/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