---
title: Pasteboard detection metadata types
framework: appkit
role: collectionGroup
role_heading: API Collection
path: appkit/nspasteboard-detection-metadata-types
---

# Pasteboard detection metadata types

Common types of metadata that the data detection system matches for a pasteboard.

## Topics

### Accessing metadata

- [metadataTypes](appkit/nspasteboard/detectedmetadata/metadatatypes.md)
- [contentType](appkit/nspasteboard/detectedmetadata/contenttype.md)

## See Also

### Detecting patterns and metadata in pasteboard items

- [detectedPatterns(for:)](appkit/nspasteboard/detectedpatterns(for:).md)
- [detectedValues(for:)](appkit/nspasteboard/detectedvalues(for:).md)
- [NSPasteboard.DetectedValues](appkit/nspasteboard/detectedvalues.md)
- [Pasteboard detection patterns](appkit/nspasteboard-detection-patterns.md)
- [detectedMetadata(for:)](appkit/nspasteboard/detectedmetadata(for:).md)
- [NSPasteboard.DetectedMetadata](appkit/nspasteboard/detectedmetadata.md)