---
title: actualTime
framework: avfoundation
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: avfoundation/avassetimagegenerator/images/element/actualtime
---

# actualTime

The actual time in the video timeline at which the image generator creates the image.

## Declaration

```swift
var actualTime: CMTime { get throws }
```

## Discussion

Discussion This value may differ from the requestedTime depending on the configuration of the image generator’s requestedTimeToleranceBefore and requestedTimeToleranceAfter properties.

## See Also

### Accessing image data

- [image](avfoundation/avassetimagegenerator/images/element/image.md)
- [requestedTime](avfoundation/avassetimagegenerator/images/element/requestedtime.md)