One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Permissions.
Permissions acting on self
Permission type
Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account)
UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)
Not supported.
Application
Not supported.
Permissions acting on other users
Permission type
Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account)
UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)
Not supported.
Application
Not supported.
Permissions acting on other users
Permission type
Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account)
UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)
Not supported.
Application
UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All
For delegated scenarios where an admin is acting on another user, the administrator needs at least the Authentication Administrator or Privileged Authentication AdministratorMicrosoft Entra role.
HTTP request
Delete the email method from your own account. For a signed-in user to update their own authentication method, they must have satisfied a multi-factor authentication requirement during sign in.
DELETE /me/authentication/emailMethods/{id}
Delete the email authentication method from another user's account.
// 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.Users["{user-id}"].Authentication.EmailMethods["{emailAuthenticationMethod-id}"].DeleteAsync();
// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc users authentication email-methods delete --user-id {user-id} --email-authentication-method-id {emailAuthenticationMethod-id}
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
graphClient.users().byUserId("{user-id}").authentication().emailMethods().byEmailAuthenticationMethodId("{emailAuthenticationMethod-id}").delete();
<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$graphServiceClient->users()->byUserId('user-id')->authentication()->emailMethods()->byEmailAuthenticationMethodId('emailAuthenticationMethod-id')->delete()->wait();