---
title: IntentAuthenticationPolicy
framework: appintents
role: symbol
role_heading: Enumeration
path: appintents/intentauthenticationpolicy
---

# IntentAuthenticationPolicy

The authentication policies you can apply to an app intent when it runs.

## Declaration

```swift
enum IntentAuthenticationPolicy
```

## Topics

### Authentication policies

- [IntentAuthenticationPolicy.alwaysAllowed](appintents/intentauthenticationpolicy/alwaysallowed.md)
- [IntentAuthenticationPolicy.requiresAuthentication](appintents/intentauthenticationpolicy/requiresauthentication.md)
- [IntentAuthenticationPolicy.requiresLocalDeviceAuthentication](appintents/intentauthenticationpolicy/requireslocaldeviceauthentication.md)

## Relationships

### Conforms To

- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Escapable](swift/escapable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [Sendable](swift/sendable.md)
- [SendableMetatype](swift/sendablemetatype.md)

## See Also

### Specifying the authentication policy

- [authenticationPolicy](appintents/appintent/authenticationpolicy.md)