# API: How to PATCH a value as NULL

**URL:** https://forum.mautic.org/t/api-how-to-patch-a-value-as-null/28733
**Category:** Product Support
**Created:** [July 27, 2023, 6:29pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/api-how-to-patch-a-value-as-null/28733 "2023-07-27T18:29:41Z")
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### Author: ![adamb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/adamb/32/6591_2.png) [@adamb](https://forum.mautic.org/u/adamb)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2023, 6:29pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/api-how-to-patch-a-value-as-null/28733/1 "2023-07-27T18:29:41Z")

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**Your software**  
My Mautic version is: Hosted/Acquia  
My PHP version is:Hosted/Acquia  
My Database type and version is:Hosted/Acquia

**Your problem**  
My problem is:  
trying to blank out a value such as phone so the body looks like this:  
{  
“phone”: null  
}

However, it doesn’t appear to truely null out the value. You can pass a space back but that isn’t the same. Does anyone have any thoughts?

These errors are showing in the log:  
N/A

Steps I have tried to fix the problem: