Delete profilePhoto

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Delete the photo for the signed-in user or the specified group.

Note

The delete operation supports only user or group photos, but not Outlook contact nor Teams photos.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	✅	✅	✅

Permissions

The following tables show the least privileged permission or permissions required to call this API on each supported resource type. Follow best practices to request least privileged permissions. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

To delete the profile photo of the signed-in user

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	ProfilePhoto.ReadWrite.All	User.ReadWrite, User.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	User.ReadWrite	Not supported.
Application	ProfilePhoto.ReadWrite.All	User.ReadWrite.All

To delete the profile photo of a group

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	ProfilePhoto.ReadWrite.All	Group.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	ProfilePhoto.ReadWrite.All	Group.ReadWrite.All

Note

• Global and user admins can delete the photo of any user in the organization using delegated permissions. This operation also supports application permissions. Deleting the photo of any user in the organization requires ProfilePhoto.ReadWrite.All or User.ReadWrite.All permissions. Deleting the photo of the signed-in user only requires User.ReadWrite permissions.

HTTP request

To delete a user's profile photo:

DELETE /me/photo/$value
DELETE /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/photo/$value

To delete a group photo:

DELETE /groups/{id}/photo/$value

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 a 200 OK response code.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

DELETE https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/photo/$value

C#

// 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.Me.Photo.Content.DeleteAsync();

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

CLI

mgc users photo content delete --user-id {user-id}

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"
	  //other-imports
)


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphClient.Me().Photo().Value().Delete(context.Background(), 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);

graphClient.me().photo().content().delete();

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);

await client.api('/me/photo/$value')
	.delete();

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;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);


$graphServiceClient->me()->photo()->content()->delete()->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.Users

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
Remove-MgUserPhotoContent -UserId $userId

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
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

await graph_client.me.photo.content.delete()

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

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK