---
title: ABPersonViewController
framework: addressbookui
role: symbol
role_heading: Class
path: addressbookui/abpersonviewcontroller
---

# ABPersonViewController

The ABPersonViewController class (whose instances are known as person view controllers) implements the view used to display a person record (ABPersonRef).

## Declaration

```swift
class ABPersonViewController
```

## Overview

Overview important: Person view controllers must be used with a navigation controller in order to function properly. Subclassing The ABPersonViewController class does not support subclassing.

## Topics

### Responding to View Controller Interactions

- [personViewDelegate](addressbookui/abpersonviewcontroller/personviewdelegate.md)
- [ABPersonViewControllerDelegate](addressbookui/abpersonviewcontrollerdelegate.md)

### Displaying Person Properties

- [displayedPerson](addressbookui/abpersonviewcontroller/displayedperson.md)
- [displayedProperties](addressbookui/abpersonviewcontroller/displayedproperties.md)
- [shouldShowLinkedPeople](addressbookui/abpersonviewcontroller/shouldshowlinkedpeople.md)

### Configuring Person Views

- [addressBook](addressbookui/abpersonviewcontroller/addressbook.md)
- [allowsActions](addressbookui/abpersonviewcontroller/allowsactions.md)
- [allowsEditing](addressbookui/abpersonviewcontroller/allowsediting.md)
- [setHighlightedItemForProperty(_:withIdentifier:)](addressbookui/abpersonviewcontroller/sethighlighteditemforproperty(_:withidentifier:).md)

## Relationships

### Inherits From

- [UIViewController](uikit/uiviewcontroller.md)

### Conforms To

- [CVarArg](swift/cvararg.md)
- [CustomDebugStringConvertible](swift/customdebugstringconvertible.md)
- [CustomStringConvertible](swift/customstringconvertible.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [NSCoding](foundation/nscoding.md)
- [NSExtensionRequestHandling](foundation/nsextensionrequesthandling.md)
- [NSObjectProtocol](objectivec/nsobjectprotocol.md)
- [NSTouchBarProvider](appkit/nstouchbarprovider.md)
- [Sendable](swift/sendable.md)
- [SendableMetatype](swift/sendablemetatype.md)
- [UIActivityItemsConfigurationProviding](uikit/uiactivityitemsconfigurationproviding.md)
- [UIAppearanceContainer](uikit/uiappearancecontainer.md)
- [UIContentContainer](uikit/uicontentcontainer.md)
- [UIFocusEnvironment](uikit/uifocusenvironment.md)
- [UIPasteConfigurationSupporting](uikit/uipasteconfigurationsupporting.md)
- [UIResponderStandardEditActions](uikit/uiresponderstandardeditactions.md)
- [UIStateRestoring](uikit/uistaterestoring.md)
- [UITraitChangeObservable](uikit/uitraitchangeobservable-67e94.md)
- [UITraitEnvironment](uikit/uitraitenvironment.md)
- [UIUserActivityRestoring](uikit/uiuseractivityrestoring.md)
- [UIViewControllerRestoration](uikit/uiviewcontrollerrestoration.md)

## See Also

### Detail Display

- [ABNewPersonViewController](addressbookui/abnewpersonviewcontroller.md)
- [ABUnknownPersonViewController](addressbookui/abunknownpersonviewcontroller.md)
- [ABCreateStringWithAddressDictionary(_:_:)](addressbookui/abcreatestringwithaddressdictionary(_:_:).md)