---
title: "Reassign a phone number"
method: PATCH
path: "/phone-numbers/update-assignee"
tags: ["Phone Numbers"]
---

# Reassign a phone number

`PATCH /phone-numbers/update-assignee`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://be.graph8.com/api/v1`
- URL: `https://be.graph8.com/api/v1/phone-numbers/update-assignee`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Move a number to a different person, and tell voice about it.

Not a label: the assignee drives inbound ring targeting, missed-call
notification and which numbers appear in that person's outbound caller-ID
rotation pool.

ADMIN-ONLY through this API. The app also accepts the number's current
assignee or its creator, but an API key is an ORGANISATION credential with
no `user_id`, so it can never be either - leaving it to fall through to the
role check is what made this route 403 for every key before the role was
supplied.

## Headers

- `Authorization` string, nullable
- `X-Target-Org-Id` string, nullable

## Request body

- UpdateAssigneeRequest: Move a number to a different person. Mirrors `phone_numbers.interfaces.fastapi.dtos.UpdateAssigneeRequest`.
  - `phone_number` string, required: The number to reassign, E.164.
  - `assignee` string, required: Who owns it now. This drives inbound ring targeting, missed-call notification and the outbound caller-ID pool - it is not a label.

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- ApiResponsePhoneNumberPayload
  - `data` PhoneNumberPayload, required: An open envelope for a purchase result, a release, or an A2P job. Open on purpose. A purchase returns the stored row (whose capability and provider-metadata keys differ per provider), a workflow start returns a `workflow_id`, and the A2P reconcile returns per-number outcomes that grow as carriers add statuses. Pinning it would silently drop whatever the provider reported that this contract had not caught up on.
  - `pagination` PaginationMeta
    - `page` integer, required: Current page number (1-indexed)
    - `limit` integer, required: Items per page
    - `total` integer, required: Total number of items
    - `has_next` boolean, required: Whether there are more pages
    - `next_cursor` string, nullable: Opaque cursor for the next page; null when there are no more items. Pass it back as the `cursor` query param to fetch the following page without computing page numbers.
    - `total_available` integer, nullable: Search endpoints only: how many records really match, when known. Can be larger than `total`, which is capped at the 10,000 results that can be paged. For company search this is a distinct-company estimate. Null when unknown; absent outside search.
    - `total_is_lower_bound` boolean, nullable: Search endpoints only: true when more records match than `total` shows (the result set is larger than the 10,000 results that can be paged). Absent outside search.
    - `notes` string[], nullable: Search endpoints only: plain-language notes about the result, e.g. that more records match than can be paged, or that a reversed `between` range was put in order.

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

---

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