---
title: autosavingDelay
framework: appkit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: appkit/nsdocumentcontroller/autosavingdelay
---

# autosavingDelay

The time interval (in seconds) for periodic autosaving.

## Declaration

```swift
var autosavingDelay: TimeInterval { get set }
```

## Discussion

Discussion A value of 0 indicates that periodic autosaving should not be done at all. The NSDocumentController object uses this number as the amount of time to wait between detecting that a document has unautosaved changes and sending the document an autosave(withDelegate:didAutosave:contextInfo:) message. The default value is 0.