Remove your photo · Ownrecord docs

Removes your photo: your initials show again. The photo is deleted from storage. Removing when there is no photo changes nothing.

Who can call it: the signed-in user, for their own account, in the console.

At a glance

REST: DELETE /api/v1/users/me/avatar
MCP tool: users_avatar_remove
Operation ID: users.avatar.remove
Scope: Platform
Permission: account:write
Risk tier: write
Dry run: Supported (send Ownrecord-Dry-Run: true)
Idempotency: Idempotency-Key optional
Modes: Test and live
Authentication: API key with the account:write scope
Since: M13

Request

Body

This operation takes no body.

Response

200 OK with a JSON object:

Field	Type	Description
`object`	`"user_profile"`
`id`	`usr_…` ID
`email`	string	Your account's address (changed with `users.email_change.start`).
`name`	string or null	Your display name, or null when there is none yet.
`nameSetByUser`	boolean	Whether you set the name yourself. Until you do, a Google or Microsoft sign-in may update it from that account.
`avatar`	object or null	Your uploaded photo (private: shown to you, to the people in your organizations and to staff), or null.
`updatedAt`	date-time

Examples

Go back to my initials

HTTP

DELETE /api/v1/users/me/avatar
Authorization: Bearer or_test_…

Response (200):

JSON

{
  "object": "user_profile",
  "id": "usr_01m4tx5nj8emwbyf7y9vcf47xa",
  "email": "ana@acme.example",
  "name": "Ana Novak",
  "nameSetByUser": true,
  "avatar": null,
  "updatedAt": "2026-11-05T09:00:00.000Z"
}

Errors

Code	HTTP status	When	What to do
`profile_photo_unavailable`	500	The platform isn't set up yet.	Try again later. If it persists, contact support with the request ID.
`version_conflict`	409	Your account changed at the same time; retry.	Fetch the object again and retry the change.
`permission_denied`	403	The caller isn't a person signed in to the console.	Ask an organization owner or admin for a role or scope that allows this action.

It can also return these common errors: validation_failed, api_version_unsupported, invalid_json, unsupported_media_type, authentication_required, api_key_invalid, resource_not_found, idempotency_key_reused, idempotency_in_progress, rate_limited, internal_error.

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