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title Get qrCodePinAuthenticationMethod
description Read the properties of a user's QR code PIN authentication method.
author jpettere
ms.reviewer intelligentaccesspm
ms.date 01/27/2026
ms.localizationpriority medium
ms.subservice entra-sign-in
doc_type apiPageType

Get qrCodePinAuthenticationMethod

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Read the properties of a user's qrCodePinAuthenticationMethod object. This returns the QR code PIN authentication method registered to the user.

Note

The PIN code is only returned at creation or reset time. For GET operations, the code property in the pin object returns null.

[!INCLUDE national-cloud-support]

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.

[!INCLUDE permissions-table]

[!INCLUDE rbac-authentication-methods-apis-read-others]

HTTP request

GET /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/authentication/qrCodePinMethod

Optional query parameters

This method doesn't support optional query parameters to customize the response.

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 200 OK response code and a qrCodePinAuthenticationMethod object in the response body.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/7c4999ca-a540-47ab-9ab9-8c362f5bf0fe/authentication/qrCodePinMethod

Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The image property in the QR code objects returns null for GET operations because the QR code private key isn't stored on the server.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.qrCodePinAuthenticationMethod",
  "id": "6C2F8B36-B6F0-46FA-9548-1EBA48BEBBDE",
  "createdDateTime": "2026-01-27T12:00:00Z",
  "standardQRCode": {
    "id": "6C2F8B36-B6F0-46FA-9548-1EBA48BEBBDE",
    "image": null,
    "startDateTime": "2026-01-27T12:00:00Z",
    "expireDateTime": "2027-01-27T12:00:00Z",
    "createdDateTime": "2026-01-27T12:00:00Z",
    "lastUsedDateTime": "2026-01-30T08:15:00Z"
  },
  "temporaryQRCode": {
    "id": "8DF9D1B6-B4BD-4EF8-8E90-2CC63C549C80",
    "image": null,
    "startDateTime": "2026-01-30T08:00:00Z",
    "expireDateTime": "2026-01-30T18:00:00Z",
    "createdDateTime": "2026-01-30T08:00:00Z",
    "lastUsedDateTime": "2026-01-30T08:15:00Z"
  },
  "pin": {
    "code": null,
    "forceChangePinNextSignIn": false,
    "createdDateTime": "2026-01-27T12:00:00Z",
    "updatedDateTime": "2026-01-28T09:30:00Z"
  }
}