---
title: creationDate
framework: avfoundation
role: symbol
role_heading: Type Property
path: avfoundation/avpartialasyncproperty/creationdate
---

# creationDate

A metadata item that indicates the creation date of an asset.

## Declaration

```swift
static var creationDate: AVAsyncProperty<Root, AVMetadataItem?> { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion Use the load(_:isolation:) method to retrieve the property value. If the asset stores a creation date in a form the system can convert to an NSDate, the metadata item’s dateValue property contains a valid date. Otherwise, the creation date is available only as a string that you retrieve by calling the metadata item’s stringValue property. This property may be nil.

## See Also

### Loading metadata

- [metadata](avfoundation/avpartialasyncproperty/metadata-16qej.md)
- [commonMetadata](avfoundation/avpartialasyncproperty/commonmetadata-3j3n4.md)
- [availableMetadataFormats](avfoundation/avpartialasyncproperty/availablemetadataformats-4yiq8.md)
- [loadMetadata(for:completionHandler:)](avfoundation/avasset/loadmetadata(for:completionhandler:).md)
- [lyrics](avfoundation/avpartialasyncproperty/lyrics.md)