title	driveItem: removeRetentionLabel
description	Remove a retention label from a driveItem.
author	kyracatwork
ms.localizationpriority	medium
ms.subservice	onedrive
doc_type	apiPageType
ms.date	11/06/2025

driveItem: removeRetentionLabel

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Remove a retention label from a driveItem.

For information about retention labels from an administrator's perspective, see Use retention labels to manage the lifecycle of documents stored in SharePoint.

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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.

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Note

Sites.FullControl.All is the least privileged permission required to remove retention labels that classify the content as records.

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HTTP request

DELETE /drives/{drive-id}/items/{item-id}/retentionLabel

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

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

DELETE https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/drives/b!t18F8ybsHUq1z3LTz8xvZqP8zaSWjkFNhsME-Fepo75dTf9vQKfeRblBZjoSQrd7/items/01NKDM7HMOJTVYMDOSXFDK2QJDXCDI3WUK/retentionLabel