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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.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

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

Permission type Least privileged permissions Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account) UserAuthMethod-QR.Read UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All, UserAuthenticationMethod.Read, UserAuthenticationMethod.Read.All, UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite, UserAuthMethod-QR.Read.All, UserAuthMethod-QR.ReadWrite, UserAuthMethod-QR.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application UserAuthMethod-QR.Read.All UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All, UserAuthenticationMethod.Read.All, UserAuthMethod-QR.ReadWrite.All

Important

In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts where the signed-in user is acting on another user, they must be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role with a supported role permission. The following least privileged roles are supported for this operation.

  • Global Reader
  • Authentication Administrator
  • Privileged Authentication Administrator

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"
  }
}
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