---
title: shouldBypassEffect
framework: audiotoolbox
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: audiotoolbox/auaudiounit/shouldbypasseffect
---

# shouldBypassEffect

Determines whether an effect should route input directly to output, without any processing.

## Declaration

```swift
var shouldBypassEffect: Bool { get set }
```

## Discussion

Discussion This version 3 property is bridged to the version 2 kAudioUnitProperty_BypassEffect API.

## See Also

### Optimizing Performance

- [latency](audiotoolbox/auaudiounit/latency.md)
- [tailTime](audiotoolbox/auaudiounit/tailtime.md)
- [renderQuality](audiotoolbox/auaudiounit/renderquality.md)
- [canProcessInPlace](audiotoolbox/auaudiounit/canprocessinplace.md)
- [isRenderingOffline](audiotoolbox/auaudiounit/isrenderingoffline.md)