---
title: AVCaptureEvent
framework: avkit
role: symbol
role_heading: Class
path: avkit/avcaptureevent
---

# AVCaptureEvent

An object that describes a user interaction with a system hardware button.

## Declaration

```swift
class AVCaptureEvent
```

## Overview

Overview Inspect a capture event’s phase to determine whether the event begins, ends, or is in a canceled state.

## Topics

### Inspecting the event

- [phase](avkit/avcaptureevent/phase.md)
- [AVCaptureEventPhase](avkit/avcaptureeventphase.md)

### Playing a sound

- [shouldPlaySound](avkit/avcaptureevent/shouldplaysound.md)
- [play(_:)](avkit/avcaptureevent/play(_:).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)

## See Also

### iOS playback and capture

- [Playing video content in a standard user interface](avkit/playing-video-content-in-a-standard-user-interface.md)
- [AVPlayerViewController](avkit/avplayerviewcontroller.md)
- [AVPlayerViewControllerDelegate](avkit/avplayerviewcontrollerdelegate.md)
- [AVCaptureEventInteraction](avkit/avcaptureeventinteraction.md)
- [AVCaptureEventSound](avkit/avcaptureeventsound.md)
- [AVInputPickerInteraction](avkit/avinputpickerinteraction.md)
- [Third-party casting support](avkit/third-party-casting-support.md)