---
title: AVMetadataItemFilter
framework: avfoundation
role: symbol
role_heading: Class
path: avfoundation/avmetadataitemfilter
---

# AVMetadataItemFilter

An object that filters selected information from a metadata item.

## Declaration

```swift
class AVMetadataItemFilter
```

## Overview

Overview Filter instances are opaque, unmodifiable objects, that you create with the forSharing() class method.

## Topics

### Creating a metadata item filter

- [forSharing()](avfoundation/avmetadataitemfilter/forsharing().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)
- [NSObjectProtocol](objectivec/nsobjectprotocol.md)
- [Sendable](swift/sendable.md)
- [SendableMetatype](swift/sendablemetatype.md)

## See Also

### Metadata

- [Retrieving media metadata](avfoundation/retrieving-media-metadata.md)
- [AVMetadataItem](avfoundation/avmetadataitem.md)
- [AVMutableMetadataItem](avfoundation/avmutablemetadataitem.md)
- [AVMetadataIdentifier](avfoundation/avmetadataidentifier.md)
- [AVMetadataKey](avfoundation/avmetadatakey.md)
- [AVMetadataKeySpace](avfoundation/avmetadatakeyspace.md)
- [AVMetadataExtraAttributeKey](avfoundation/avmetadataextraattributekey.md)
- [AVMetadataFormat](avfoundation/avmetadataformat.md)