---
title: creationDate
framework: avfoundation
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: avfoundation/avmutablemovie/creationdate
---

# creationDate

A metadata item that indicates the asset’s creation date.

## Declaration

```swift
var creationDate: AVMetadataItem? { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion If the asset contains metadata that the framework can convert to an NSDate, you can retrieve it from the metadata item using its dateValue property. Otherwise, you retrieve it as a string by using the metadata item’s stringValue property. This property value is nil if no creation date metadata exists.

## See Also

### Accessing metadata

- [metadata](avfoundation/avmutablemovie/metadata.md)
- [commonMetadata](avfoundation/avmutablemovie/commonmetadata.md)
- [availableMetadataFormats](avfoundation/avmutablemovie/availablemetadataformats.md)
- [metadata(forFormat:)](avfoundation/avmutablemovie/metadata(forformat:).md)
- [lyrics](avfoundation/avmutablemovie/lyrics.md)