---
title: ASCredentialImportManager
framework: authenticationservices
role: symbol
role_heading: Class
path: authenticationservices/ascredentialimportmanager
---

# ASCredentialImportManager

A class to manage importing credentials.

## Declaration

```swift
class ASCredentialImportManager
```

## Overview

Overview ASCredentialImportManager allows your app to exchange authentication credentials such as passwords and passkeys with other apps. Participating apps, such as password managers, export credentials to your app by using the ASCredentialExportManager class. Configuring your app To participate in credential exchange, edit your credential provider extension’s information property list and add the following key with a Boolean value of YES: NSExtension > NSExtensionAttributes > ASCredentialProviderExtensionCapabilities > SupportsCredentialExchange Also, declare the versions of the credential data format your app supports using the following key: NSExtension > NSExtensionAttributes > ASCredentialProviderExtensionCapabilities > SupportedCredentialExchangeVersions The value is an array of strings containing every version your app supports. Currently, the only available version is 1.0. Importing credentials Credential export begins when another app calls exportCredentials(_:), which brings up a system UI to choose an app to export to. When the person using the export app chooses your app to receive the credentials, the system launches your app and sends an  NSUserActivity whose activityType is ASCredentialExchangeActivity. To support this process, add the NSUserActivityTypes array to your app’s information property list and add the item ASCredentialExchangeActivityType to the array. Your app needs to prepare for the system launching the app from this activity by fetching the ASCredentialImportToken from the activity’s  userInfo dictionary. The value of this key is a UUID token; create an instance of ASCredentialImportManager and pass the token to importCredentials(token:) to begin the import process. The following example shows how a SwiftUI app handles launching from the user activity and beginning the credential import process.  struct CredentialImportManagerExample: View {      @Environment(\.credentialImportManager) private var credentialImportManager

var body: some View {          content // Defined elsewhere.              .onContinueUserActivity(ASCredentialExchangeActivityType) { activity in                  Task {                      do {                          guard let token = activity.userInfo?[ASCredentialImportToken] as? UUID else { return }                          let credentialData = try await credentialImportManager.importCredentials(token: token)                          // Do something with the data.                      } catch {                          // Handle the import error.                      }                  }              }      }  } For a corresponding export code example, see ASCredentialExportManager.

## Topics

### Creating an import manager

- [init()](authenticationservices/ascredentialimportmanager/init().md)

### Importing credentials

- [importCredentials(token:)](authenticationservices/ascredentialimportmanager/importcredentials(token:).md)
- [ASExportedCredentialData](authenticationservices/asexportedcredentialdata.md)

## See Also

### Credential migration

- [ASCredentialExportManager](authenticationservices/ascredentialexportmanager.md)