How to make user attributes from AWS userpool updateable?

Question

I am trying to update attributes from users from a AWS Cognito userpool with AWS Amplify.

try {
    const user = await Auth.currentAuthenticatedUser();
    await Auth.updateUserAttributes(user, {
        'nickname': 'newtestname'
    });
} catch (error) {
    console.log(error);
}

But I get the following error:

InvalidParameterException: user.nickname: Attribute cannot be updated.

I would expect it to be updateable because I made the attributes writable in the userpool-client section in my SAM template:

WriteAttributes:
        - email
        - nickname
UserPoolId: !Ref MyCognitoUserPool

This is also reflected correctly in the console:

I have no app client secret and all auth flows enabled. The security configuration is set to enabled. Users can register, so I assume that the Amplify config in the client is alright.

What is wrong here?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 09 '21 at 09:06

I found the issue. On creation of the userpool I had to set the mutable flag within the schema definition, like so:

Schema: 
  - Name: email
    Mutable: true
    ...
  - Name: nickname
    Mutable: true
    ...

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito-user-identity-pools/latest/APIReference/API_CreateUserPool.html

How to make user attributes from AWS userpool updateable?

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