---
title: AVContentAuthorizationStatus
framework: avfoundation
role: symbol
role_heading: Enumeration
path: avfoundation/avcontentauthorizationstatus
---

# AVContentAuthorizationStatus

A value representing the status of a content authorization request.

## Declaration

```swift
enum AVContentAuthorizationStatus
```

## Overview

Overview Even if authorization is completed by the user, there is no guarantee that the content will then be authorized. You should re-check whether the content is authorized before proceeding.

## Topics

### Content authorization statuses

- [AVContentAuthorizationStatus.unknown](avfoundation/avcontentauthorizationstatus/unknown.md)
- [AVContentAuthorizationStatus.completed](avfoundation/avcontentauthorizationstatus/completed.md)
- [AVContentAuthorizationStatus.cancelled](avfoundation/avcontentauthorizationstatus/cancelled.md)
- [AVContentAuthorizationStatus.timedOut](avfoundation/avcontentauthorizationstatus/timedout.md)
- [AVContentAuthorizationStatus.busy](avfoundation/avcontentauthorizationstatus/busy.md)
- [AVContentAuthorizationStatus.notAvailable](avfoundation/avcontentauthorizationstatus/notavailable.md)
- [AVContentAuthorizationStatus.notPossible](avfoundation/avcontentauthorizationstatus/notpossible.md)

### Initializers

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

### Managing playback authorization in macOS

- [isContentAuthorizedForPlayback](avfoundation/avplayeritem/iscontentauthorizedforplayback.md)
- [isAuthorizationRequiredForPlayback](avfoundation/avplayeritem/isauthorizationrequiredforplayback.md)
- [isApplicationAuthorizedForPlayback](avfoundation/avplayeritem/isapplicationauthorizedforplayback.md)
- [requestContentAuthorizationAsynchronously(withTimeoutInterval:completionHandler:)](avfoundation/avplayeritem/requestcontentauthorizationasynchronously(withtimeoutinterval:completionhandler:).md)
- [contentAuthorizationRequestStatus](avfoundation/avplayeritem/contentauthorizationrequeststatus.md)
- [cancelContentAuthorizationRequest()](avfoundation/avplayeritem/cancelcontentauthorizationrequest().md)