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Method: users.updateSettings
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Updates the user's settings details.
HTTP request
PATCH https://health.googleapis.com/v4/{settings.name=users/*/settings}
The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax. To know more about valid error responses that can be thrown by this HTTP request, please refer to the service error catalog
Path parameters
| Parameters |
settings.name |
string
Identifier. The resource name of this Settings resource. Format: users/{user}/settings Example: users/1234567890/settings or users/me/settings The {user} ID is a system-generated Google Health API user ID, a string of 1-63 characters consisting of lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers, and hyphens. The literal me can also be used to refer to the authenticated user. It takes the form users/{user}/settings.
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Query parameters
| Parameters |
updateMask |
string (FieldMask format)
Optional. The list of fields to be updated. This is a comma-separated list of fully qualified names of fields. Example: "user.displayName,photo".
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Request body
The request body contains an instance of Settings.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains an instance of Settings.
Authorization scopes
Requires the following OAuth scope:
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/googlehealth.settings
For more information, see the OAuth 2.0 Overview.
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Last updated 2026-03-24 UTC.
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