---
title: AVPlayer.WaitingReason
framework: avfoundation
role: symbol
role_heading: Structure
path: avfoundation/avplayer/waitingreason
---

# AVPlayer.WaitingReason

The reasons a player is waiting to begin or resume playback.

## Declaration

```swift
struct WaitingReason
```

## Topics

### Player waiting reasons

- [evaluatingBufferingRate](avfoundation/avplayer/waitingreason/evaluatingbufferingrate.md)
- [noItemToPlay](avfoundation/avplayer/waitingreason/noitemtoplay.md)
- [toMinimizeStalls](avfoundation/avplayer/waitingreason/tominimizestalls.md)
- [interstitialEvent](avfoundation/avplayer/waitingreason/interstitialevent.md)
- [waitingForCoordinatedPlayback](avfoundation/avplayer/waitingreason/waitingforcoordinatedplayback.md)

### Initializers

- [init(rawValue:)](avfoundation/avplayer/waitingreason/init(rawvalue:).md)

## Relationships

### Conforms To

- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [RawRepresentable](swift/rawrepresentable.md)
- [Sendable](swift/sendable.md)
- [SendableMetatype](swift/sendablemetatype.md)

## See Also

### Configuring waiting behavior

- [automaticallyWaitsToMinimizeStalling](avfoundation/avplayer/automaticallywaitstominimizestalling.md)
- [reasonForWaitingToPlay](avfoundation/avplayer/reasonforwaitingtoplay.md)
- [timeControlStatus](avfoundation/avplayer/timecontrolstatus-swift.property.md)
- [AVPlayer.TimeControlStatus](avfoundation/avplayer/timecontrolstatus-swift.enum.md)
- [playImmediately(atRate:)](avfoundation/avplayer/playimmediately(atrate:).md)