Issue watchers
Delete watcher
Deletes a user as a watcher of an issue.
This operation requires the Allow users to watch issues option to be ON. This option is set in General configuration for Jira. See Configuring Jira application options for details.
Permissions required:
- Browse projects project permission for the project that the issue is in.
- If issue-level security is configured, issue-level security permission to view the issue.
- To remove users other than themselves from the watchlist, Manage watcher list project permission for the project that the issue is in.
delete/rest/api/3/issue/{issueIdOrKey}/watchers
Path parameters
issueIdOrKeystring required
The ID or key of the issue.
Query parameters
usernamestring
This parameter is no longer available. See the deprecation notice for details.
accountIdstring
Example:5b10ac8d82e05b22cc7d4ef5
The account ID of the user, which uniquely identifies the user across all Atlassian products. For example, 5b10ac8d82e05b22cc7d4ef5. Required.
Response
Returned if the request is successful.