Update phoneAuthenticationMethod

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Update a user's phone number associated with a phone authentication method object.

You can't change a phone's type. To change a phone's type, add a new number of the desired type and then delete the object with the original type.

If a user is enabled by policy to use SMS to sign in and the mobile number is changed, the system will attempt to register the number for use in that system.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

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

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.

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

For delegated scenarios where an admin is acting on another user, the administrator needs at least the Authentication Administrator or Privileged Authentication Administrator Microsoft Entra role.

Users cannot update their own phone authentication method.

HTTP request

Update another user's phone authentication method.

PATCH /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/authentication/phoneMethods/{phoneMethodId}

The value of phoneMethodId corresponding to the phoneType to update is one of the following:

• b6332ec1-7057-4abe-9331-3d72feddfe41 to update the alternateMobile phoneType.
• e37fc753-ff3b-4958-9484-eaa9425c82bc to update the office phoneType.
• 3179e48a-750b-4051-897c-87b9720928f7 to update the mobile phoneType.

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-type	application/json. Required.

Request body

In the request body, supply the values for relevant fields that should be updated. Existing properties that are not included in the request body will be recalculated based on changes to other property values.

Property	Type	Description
phoneNumber	String	The phone number to text or call for authentication. Phone numbers use the format +{country code} {number}x{extension}, with extension optional. For example, +1 5555551234 or +1 5555551234x123 are valid. Numbers are rejected when creating or updating if they do not match the required format.
phoneType	string	Possible values are: mobile, alternateMobile, or office.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 204 No Content response code and an updated phoneAuthenticationMethod object in the response body.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/kim@contoso.com/authentication/phoneMethods/3179e48a-750b-4051-897c-87b9720928f7
Content-type: application/json

{
  "phoneNumber": "+1 2065555554",
  "phoneType": "mobile",
}

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new PhoneAuthenticationMethod
{
	PhoneNumber = "+1 2065555554",
	PhoneType = AuthenticationPhoneType.Mobile,
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Users["{user-id}"].Authentication.PhoneMethods["{phoneAuthenticationMethod-id}"].PatchAsync(requestBody);

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

CLI

// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc users authentication phone-methods patch --user-id {user-id} --phone-authentication-method-id {phoneAuthenticationMethod-id} --body '{\
  "phoneNumber": "+1 2065555554",\
  "phoneType": "mobile",\
}\
'

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

Go

import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)


requestBody := graphmodels.NewPhoneAuthenticationMethod()
phoneNumber := "+1 2065555554"
requestBody.SetPhoneNumber(&phoneNumber) 
phoneType := graphmodels.MOBILE_AUTHENTICATIONPHONETYPE 
requestBody.SetPhoneType(&phoneType) 

phoneMethods, err := graphClient.Users().ByUserId("user-id").Authentication().PhoneMethods().ByPhoneAuthenticationMethodId("phoneAuthenticationMethod-id").Patch(context.Background(), requestBody, 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);

PhoneAuthenticationMethod phoneAuthenticationMethod = new PhoneAuthenticationMethod();
phoneAuthenticationMethod.setPhoneNumber("+1 2065555554");
phoneAuthenticationMethod.setPhoneType(AuthenticationPhoneType.Mobile);
PhoneAuthenticationMethod result = graphClient.users().byUserId("{user-id}").authentication().phoneMethods().byPhoneAuthenticationMethodId("{phoneAuthenticationMethod-id}").patch(phoneAuthenticationMethod);

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);

const phoneAuthenticationMethod = {
  phoneNumber: '+1 2065555554',
  phoneType: 'mobile',
};

await client.api('/users/kim@contoso.com/authentication/phoneMethods/3179e48a-750b-4051-897c-87b9720928f7')
	.update(phoneAuthenticationMethod);

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;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\PhoneAuthenticationMethod;


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

$requestBody = new PhoneAuthenticationMethod();
$requestBody->setPhoneNumber('+1 2065555554');
$requestBody->setPhoneType(new AuthenticationPhoneType('mobile'));

$result = $graphServiceClient->users()->byUserId('user-id')->authentication()->phoneMethods()->byPhoneAuthenticationMethodId('phoneAuthenticationMethod-id')->patch($requestBody)->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.Identity.SignIns

$params = @{
	phoneNumber = "+1 2065555554"
	phoneType = "mobile"
}

Update-MgUserAuthenticationPhoneMethod -UserId $userId -PhoneAuthenticationMethodId $phoneAuthenticationMethodId -BodyParameter $params

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

Python

from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.phone_authentication_method import PhoneAuthenticationMethod

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)

request_body = PhoneAuthenticationMethod(
	phone_number = "+1 2065555554",
	phone_type = AuthenticationPhoneType.Mobile,
)

result = await graph_client.users.by_user_id('user-id').authentication.phone_methods.by_phone_authentication_method_id('phoneAuthenticationMethod-id').patch(request_body)

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/1.1 204 No Content