---
title: appliesMediaSelectionCriteriaAutomatically
framework: avfoundation
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: avfoundation/avplayer/appliesmediaselectioncriteriaautomatically
---

# appliesMediaSelectionCriteriaAutomatically

A Boolean value that indicates whether the receiver should apply the current selection criteria automatically to player items.

## Declaration

```swift
nonisolated var appliesMediaSelectionCriteriaAutomatically: Bool { get set }
```

## Mentioned in

Selecting subtitles and alternative audio tracks

## Discussion

Discussion By default, the AVPlayer instance applies selection criteria based on system accessibility preferences. To override the default criteria for any media selection group, use setMediaSelectionCriteria(_:forMediaCharacteristic:). note: For clients linked against the iOS 7.0 and later or against the macOS 10.9 and later, the default is true. For all others, the default is false.

## See Also

### Configuring media selection criteria

- [mediaSelectionCriteria(forMediaCharacteristic:)](avfoundation/avplayer/mediaselectioncriteria(formediacharacteristic:).md)
- [setMediaSelectionCriteria(_:forMediaCharacteristic:)](avfoundation/avplayer/setmediaselectioncriteria(_:formediacharacteristic:).md)