---
title: "DELETE /v1/matters/{matterId}/holds/{holdId}/accounts/{accountId}"
method: DELETE
path: "/v1/matters/{matterId}/holds/{holdId}/accounts/{accountId}"
tags: ["matters"]
---

# DELETE /v1/matters/{matterId}/holds/{holdId}/accounts/{accountId}

`DELETE /v1/matters/{matterId}/holds/{holdId}/accounts/{accountId}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://vault.googleapis.com`
- URL: `https://vault.googleapis.com/v1/matters/{matterId}/holds/{holdId}/accounts/{accountId}`
- Auth: OAuth 2 and OAuth 2
  - Implicit: `https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth`
  - Scopes: `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/ediscovery`
  - Authorization code: `https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth`
  - Token URL: `https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token` scopes: `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/ediscovery`
- TypeScript: <https://skmtc.dev/google/apis/vault/docs/v1/matters/:matterId/holds/:holdId/accounts/:accountId/delete.ts> (a function with typed inputs; its response is checked against the schema)

Removes an account from a hold.

## Path parameters

- `matterId` string, required
- `holdId` string, required
- `accountId` string, required

## Response `200`

Successful response

- Empty: A generic empty message that you can re-use to avoid defining duplicated empty messages in your APIs. A typical example is to use it as the request or the response type of an API method. For instance: service Foo { rpc Bar(google.protobuf.Empty) returns (google.protobuf.Empty); }

## Changes

- **2026-10-10** `ddd37fff1925`: 1 breaking
  - removed the media type `*/*` for the response with the status `200`

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/google/apis/vault/changes/v1/matters/:matterId/holds/:holdId/accounts/:accountId/delete.md)

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