| title | Delete phoneAuthenticationMethod |
|---|---|
| description | Delete a user's phone authentication method. |
| ms.localizationpriority | medium |
| author | luc-msft |
| ms.reviewer | intelligentaccesspm |
| ms.subservice | entra-sign-in |
| doc_type | apiPageType |
| ms.date | 07/31/2025 |
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.
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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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Delete your own phone authentication method.
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DELETE /me/authentication/phoneMethods/{phoneMethodId}Delete your own or another user's phone authentication method.
[!INCLUDE authentication-methods-apis-users-selfservice]
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-9331-3d72feddfe41to delete thealternateMobilephoneType.e37fc753-ff3b-4958-9484-eaa9425c82bcto delete theofficephoneType.3179e48a-750b-4051-897c-87b9720928f7to delete themobilephoneType.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Authorization | Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization. |
Don't supply a request body for this method.
If successful, this method returns a 204 No Content response code. It doesn't return anything in the response body.
Here's an example of the request.
DELETE https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/authentication/phoneMethods/3179e48a-750b-4051-897c-87b9720928f7[!INCLUDE sample-code] [!INCLUDE sdk-documentation]
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Here's an example of the response.
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content