Update contact

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Update the properties of a contact object.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

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

Permissions

One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Permissions.

Permission type	Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account)	Contacts.ReadWrite
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Contacts.ReadWrite
Application	Contacts.ReadWrite

HTTP request

A contact from a user's default contactFolder.

PATCH /me/contacts/{id}
PATCH /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/contacts/{id}

A contact from a user's top level contactFolder.

PATCH /me/contactFolders/{id}/contacts/{id}
PATCH /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/contactFolders/{id}/contacts/{id}

A contact contained in a child folder of a contactFolder. The example below shows one level of nesting, but a contact can be located in a child of a child and so on.

PATCH /me/contactFolders/{id}/childFolders/{id}/.../contacts/{id}
PATCH /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/contactFolders/{id}/childFolders/{id}/contacts/{id}

Request headers

Header	Value
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 aren't included in the request body maintain their previous values or are recalculated based on changes to other property values. For best performance, don't include existing values that haven't changed.

When you update structured properties such as homeAddress, you must pass the full property set.

Property	Type	Description
assistantName	String	The name of the contact's assistant.
birthday	DateTimeOffset	The contact's birthday.
businessAddress	PhysicalAddress	The contact's business address.
businessHomePage	String	The business home page of the contact.
businessPhones	String	The contact's business phone numbers.
categories	String	The categories associated with the contact.
children	String	The names of the contact's children.
companyName	String	The name of the contact's company.
department	String	The contact's department.
displayName	String	The contact's display name. Note that later updates to other properties may cause an automatically generated value to overwrite the displayName value you have specified. To preserve a pre-existing value, always include it as displayName in an update operation.
emailAddresses	EmailAddress collection	The contact's email addresses.
fileAs	String	The name the contact is filed under.
generation	String	The contact's generation.
givenName	String	The contact's given name.
homeAddress	PhysicalAddress	The contact's home address.
homePhones	String collection	The contact's home phone numbers.
imAddresses	String	The contact's instant messaging (IM) addresses.
initials	String	The contact's initials.
jobTitle	String	The contact’s job title.
manager	String	The name of the contact's manager.
middleName	String	The contact's middle name.
mobilePhone	String	The contact's mobile phone number.
nickName	String	The contact's nickname.
officeLocation	String	The location of the contact's office.
otherAddress	PhysicalAddress	Other addresses for the contact.
parentFolderId	String	The ID of the contact's parent folder.
personalNotes	String	The user's notes about the contact.
profession	String	The contact's profession.
spouseName	String	The name of the contact's spouse/partner.
surname	String	The contact's surname.
title	String	The contact's title.
yomiCompanyName	String	The phonetic Japanese company name of the contact. This property is optional.
yomiGivenName	String	The phonetic Japanese given name (first name) of the contact. This property is optional.
yomiSurname	String	The phonetic Japanese surname (last name) of the contact. This property is optional.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and an updated contact object in the response body.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/contacts/{id}
Content-type: application/json

{
  "homeAddress": {
    "street": "123 Some street",
    "city": "Seattle",
    "state": "WA",
    "postalCode": "98121"
  },
  "birthday": "1974-07-22"
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new Contact
{
	HomeAddress = new PhysicalAddress
	{
		Street = "123 Some street",
		City = "Seattle",
		State = "WA",
		PostalCode = "98121",
	},
	Birthday = DateTimeOffset.Parse("1974-07-22"),
};

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

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

CLI

mgc users contacts patch --user-id {user-id} --contact-id {contact-id} --body '{\
  "homeAddress": {\
    "street": "123 Some street",\
    "city": "Seattle",\
    "state": "WA",\
    "postalCode": "98121"\
  },\
  "birthday": "1974-07-22"\
}\
'

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

requestBody := graphmodels.NewContact()
homeAddress := graphmodels.NewPhysicalAddress()
street := "123 Some street"
homeAddress.SetStreet(&street) 
city := "Seattle"
homeAddress.SetCity(&city) 
state := "WA"
homeAddress.SetState(&state) 
postalCode := "98121"
homeAddress.SetPostalCode(&postalCode) 
requestBody.SetHomeAddress(homeAddress)
birthday , err := time.Parse(time.RFC3339, "1974-07-22")
requestBody.SetBirthday(&birthday) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
contacts, err := graphClient.Me().Contacts().ByContactId("contact-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);

Contact contact = new Contact();
PhysicalAddress homeAddress = new PhysicalAddress();
homeAddress.setStreet("123 Some street");
homeAddress.setCity("Seattle");
homeAddress.setState("WA");
homeAddress.setPostalCode("98121");
contact.setHomeAddress(homeAddress);
OffsetDateTime birthday = OffsetDateTime.parse("1974-07-22");
contact.setBirthday(birthday);
Contact result = graphClient.me().contacts().byContactId("{contact-id}").patch(contact);

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 contact = {
  homeAddress: {
    street: '123 Some street',
    city: 'Seattle',
    state: 'WA',
    postalCode: '98121'
  },
  birthday: '1974-07-22'
};

await client.api('/me/contacts/{id}')
	.update(contact);

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\Contact;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\PhysicalAddress;


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

$requestBody = new Contact();
$homeAddress = new PhysicalAddress();
$homeAddress->setStreet('123 Some street');
$homeAddress->setCity('Seattle');
$homeAddress->setState('WA');
$homeAddress->setPostalCode('98121');
$requestBody->setHomeAddress($homeAddress);
$requestBody->setBirthday(new \DateTime('1974-07-22'));

$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->contacts()->byContactId('contact-id')->patch($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.PersonalContacts

$params = @{
	homeAddress = @{
		street = "123 Some street"
		city = "Seattle"
		state = "WA"
		postalCode = "98121"
	}
	birthday = [System.DateTime]::Parse("1974-07-22")
}

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
Update-MgUserContact -UserId $userId -ContactId $contactId -BodyParameter $params

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
from msgraph.generated.models.contact import Contact
from msgraph.generated.models.physical_address import PhysicalAddress
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = Contact(
	home_address = PhysicalAddress(
		street = "123 Some street",
		city = "Seattle",
		state = "WA",
		postal_code = "98121",
	),
	birthday = "1974-07-22",
)

result = await graph_client.me.contacts.by_contact_id('contact-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.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

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

{
  "id": "AAMkAGI2THk0AAA=",
  "createdDateTime": "2014-10-19T23:08:24Z",
  "lastModifiedDateTime": "2014-10-19T23:08:24Z",
  "changeKey": "EQAAABYAAACd9nJ/tVysQos2hTfspaWRAAADTIa4",
  "categories": [],
  "parentFolderId": "AAMkAGI2AAEOAAA=",
  "birthday": "1974-07-22",
  "fileAs": "Fort, Garth",
  "displayName": "Garth Fort",
  "givenName": "Garth",
  "initials": "G.F.",
  "middleName": null,
  "nickName": "Garth",
  "surname": "Fort",
  "title": null,
  "yomiGivenName": null,
  "yomiSurname": null,
  "yomiCompanyName": null,
  "generation": null,
  "emailAddresses": [
    {
      "name": "Garth",
      "address": "garth@contoso.com"
    }
  ],
  "imAddresses": [
    "sip:garthf@contoso.com"
  ],
  "jobTitle": "Web Marketing Manager",
  "companyName": "Contoso, Inc.",
  "department": "Sales & Marketing",
  "officeLocation": "20/1101",
  "profession": null,
  "businessHomePage": "https://www.contoso.com",
  "assistantName": null,
  "manager": null,
  "homePhones": [],
  "mobilePhone": null,
  "businessPhones": [
    "+1 918 555 0101"
  ],
  "homeAddress": {
    "street": "123 Some street",
    "city": "Seattle",
    "state": "WA",
    "postalCode": "98121"
  },
  "businessAddress": {
      "street": "10 Contoso Way",
      "city": "Redmond",
      "state": "WA",
      "countryOrRegion": "USA",
      "postalCode": "98075"
  },
  "otherAddress": {},
  "spouseName": null,
  "personalNotes": null,
  "children": []
}