Create phoneMethod

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Add a new phone authentication method for a user. 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 pre-existing mobile phone fails. 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 multi-factor 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 or 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

Here's an example of the request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/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.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);

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

CLI

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

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 $v1.*

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

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);

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')
	.post(phoneAuthenticationMethod);

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\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\PhoneAuthenticationMethod;
use Microsoft\Graph\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();

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.Identity.SignIns

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

New-MgUserAuthenticationPhoneMethod -UserId $userId -BodyParameter $params

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 import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.phone_authentication_method import PhoneAuthenticationMethod
from msgraph.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)

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

Response

Here's an example of 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"
}