Delete phoneAuthenticationMethod
Namespace: microsoft.graph
Delete a user's phone authentication method. This removes the phone number from the user and they'll no longer be able to use the number for authentication, whether via SMS or voice calls.
A user can't have an alternateMobile
number without a mobile
number. If you want to remove a mobile
number from a user that also has an alternateMobile
number, first update the mobile
number to the new number, then delete the alternateMobile
number.
If the phone number is the user's default Azure multi-factor authentication (MFA) authentication method, it can't be deleted. Have the user change their default authentication method, and then delete the number.
This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.
Global service | US Government L4 | US Government L5 (DOD) | China operated by 21Vianet |
---|---|---|---|
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
Permissions
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.All |
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) | Not supported. |
Application | UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All |
In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts where the signed-in user is acting on another user, they 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
HTTP request
Delete your own phone authentication method.
DELETE /me/authentication/phoneMethods/{phoneMethodId}
Delete your own or another user's phone authentication method.
DELETE /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/authentication/phoneMethods/{phoneMethodId}
The value of phoneMethodId
corresponding to the phoneType to delete is one of the following:
b6332ec1-7057-4abe-9331-3d72feddfe41
to delete thealternateMobile
phoneType.e37fc753-ff3b-4958-9484-eaa9425c82bc
to delete theoffice
phoneType.3179e48a-750b-4051-897c-87b9720928f7
to delete themobile
phoneType.
Request headers
Name | Description |
---|---|
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 a 204 No Content
response code. It doesn't return anything in the response body.
Examples
Request
Here's an example of the request.
DELETE https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/authentication/phoneMethods/3179e48a-750b-4051-897c-87b9720928f7
Response
Here's an example of the response.
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content