---
title: AVAudioRoutingArbiter.Category
framework: avfaudio
role: symbol
role_heading: Enumeration
path: avfaudio/avaudioroutingarbiter/category
---

# AVAudioRoutingArbiter.Category

Categories that describe the general nature of your app’s audio use.

## Declaration

```swift
enum Category
```

## Overview

Overview The category provides context that helps the operating system arbitrate between Apple devices that are trying to take ownership of a Bluetooth audio route.

## Topics

### Categories

- [AVAudioRoutingArbiter.Category.playback](avfaudio/avaudioroutingarbiter/category/playback.md)
- [AVAudioRoutingArbiter.Category.playAndRecord](avfaudio/avaudioroutingarbiter/category/playandrecord.md)
- [AVAudioRoutingArbiter.Category.playAndRecordVoice](avfaudio/avaudioroutingarbiter/category/playandrecordvoice.md)

### Initializers

- [init(rawValue:)](avfaudio/avaudioroutingarbiter/category/init(rawvalue:).md)

## Relationships

### Conforms To

- [BitwiseCopyable](swift/bitwisecopyable.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [RawRepresentable](swift/rawrepresentable.md)
- [Sendable](swift/sendable.md)
- [SendableMetatype](swift/sendablemetatype.md)

## See Also

### Participating in AirPods Automatic Switching

- [begin(category:completionHandler:)](avfaudio/avaudioroutingarbiter/begin(category:completionhandler:).md)
- [leave()](avfaudio/avaudioroutingarbiter/leave().md)