- NAME
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- gcloud essential-contacts update - update an essential contact
- SYNOPSIS
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gcloud essential-contacts updateCONTACT_ID[--language=LANGUAGE] [--notification-categories=[NOTIFICATION_CATEGORIES, …]] [--folder=FOLDER|--organization=ORGANIZATION|--project=PROJECT] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
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- EXAMPLES
- To update the notification category subscriptions for the contact with id
in the current project, run:123gcloud essential-contacts update 123 --notification-categories = legal,suspensionTo update the language preference for the contact with id
in the folder with id123, run:456gcloud essential-contacts update 123 --language = es --folder = 456To update the notification category subscriptions and language preference for the contact with id
in the organization with id123, run:456gcloud essential-contacts update 123 --notification-categories = legal --language = en-US --organization = 456 - POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
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CONTACT_ID - id of contact
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- FLAGS
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--language=LANGUAGE - preferred language of contact. Must be a valid ISO 639-1 language code.
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--notification-categories=[NOTIFICATION_CATEGORIES,…] - list of notification categories contact is subscribed to.
NOTIFICATION_CATEGORIESmust be one of:all,billing,legal,notification-category-unspecified,product-updates,security,suspension,technical,technical-incidents. - At most one of these can be specified:
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--folder=FOLDER - folder number where contacts are set. If neither --project, --folder, nor --organization are provided then the config property [core/project] will be used as the resource.
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--organization=ORGANIZATION - organization number where contacts are set. If neither --project, --folder, nor --organization are provided then the config property [core/project] will be used as the resource.
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--project=PROJECT - project number or id where contacts are set. If neither --project, --folder, nor --organization are provided then the config property [core/project] will be used as the resource.
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- GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS
- These flags are available to all commands:
--access-token-file,--account,--billing-project,--configuration,--flags-file,--flatten,--format,--help,--impersonate-service-account,--log-http,--project,--quiet,--trace-token,--user-output-enabled,--verbosity.Run
$ gcloud helpfor details. - NOTES
- These variants are also available:
gcloud alpha essential-contacts updategcloud beta essential-contacts update
gcloud essential-contacts update
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Last updated 2026-05-27 UTC.

