---
title: AVDisplayCriteria
framework: avfoundation
role: symbol
role_heading: Class
path: avfoundation/avdisplaycriteria
---

# AVDisplayCriteria

An object the system uses to guide the selection of a display mode in tvOS.

## Declaration

```swift
class AVDisplayCriteria
```

## Overview

Overview In tvOS, this object provides the display criteria that an AVDisplayManager uses to set an appropriate display mode, such as switching to HDR, when presenting a video asset. If your app uses AVPlayerViewController for its player user interface, the system automatically applies the display critera when it presents the asset. If you use a custom player interface, load the value of an asset’s preferredDisplayCriteria property and set it on the window’s avDisplayManager object. important: Most apps don’t create instances of this class, and instead retrieve the preferred display criteria from a media asset. If your app doesn’t use AVAsset, such as a streaming app that renders sample buffers using AVSampleBufferDisplayLayer, you can manually create an instance using the init(refreshRate:formatDescription:) initializer.

## Topics

### Create a display criteria

- [init(refreshRate:formatDescription:)](avfoundation/avdisplaycriteria/init(refreshrate:formatdescription:).md)

## Relationships

### Inherits From

- [NSObject](objectivec/nsobject-swift.class.md)

### Conforms To

- [CVarArg](swift/cvararg.md)
- [CustomDebugStringConvertible](swift/customdebugstringconvertible.md)
- [CustomStringConvertible](swift/customstringconvertible.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [NSCopying](foundation/nscopying.md)
- [NSObjectProtocol](objectivec/nsobjectprotocol.md)
- [Sendable](swift/sendable.md)
- [SendableMetatype](swift/sendablemetatype.md)

## See Also

### Loading asset preferences

- [preferredRate](avfoundation/avpartialasyncproperty/preferredrate.md)
- [preferredVolume](avfoundation/avpartialasyncproperty/preferredvolume-20mb3.md)
- [preferredTransform](avfoundation/avpartialasyncproperty/preferredtransform-80d13.md)
- [preferredDisplayCriteria](avfoundation/avpartialasyncproperty/preferreddisplaycriteria.md)