---
title: AVAuthorizationStatus
framework: avfoundation
role: symbol
role_heading: Enumeration
path: avfoundation/avauthorizationstatus
---

# AVAuthorizationStatus

Constants that indicate the status of an app’s authorization to capture media.

## Declaration

```swift
enum AVAuthorizationStatus
```

## Overview

Overview Call authorizationStatus(for:) to determine the app’s current permission to capture media.

## Topics

### Status values

- [AVAuthorizationStatus.notDetermined](avfoundation/avauthorizationstatus/notdetermined.md)
- [AVAuthorizationStatus.restricted](avfoundation/avauthorizationstatus/restricted.md)
- [AVAuthorizationStatus.denied](avfoundation/avauthorizationstatus/denied.md)
- [AVAuthorizationStatus.authorized](avfoundation/avauthorizationstatus/authorized.md)

### Initializers

- [init(rawValue:)](avfoundation/avauthorizationstatus/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

### Authorizing device access

- [requestAccess(for:completionHandler:)](avfoundation/avcapturedevice/requestaccess(for:completionhandler:).md)
- [authorizationStatus(for:)](avfoundation/avcapturedevice/authorizationstatus(for:).md)