---
title: "shareParticipants(forPhoneNumbers:)"
framework: cloudkit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Method
path: "cloudkit/ckcontainer/shareparticipants(forphonenumbers:)"
---

# shareParticipants(forPhoneNumbers:)

Fetches share participants with the specified phone numbers and returns them to an awaiting caller.

## Declaration

```swift
func shareParticipants(forPhoneNumbers phoneNumbers: [String]) async throws -> [String : Result<CKShare.Participant, any Error>]
```

## Parameters

- `phoneNumbers`: The share participants’ phone numbers.

## Return Value

Return Value A dictionary of fetched share participants. The dictionary uses the phone numbers you specify in phoneNumbers as its keys. The value of each key is a Result that contains either the corresponding fetched share participant, or an error that describes why CloudKit can’t fetch that share participant.

## Discussion

Discussion CloudKit can translate any valid phone number into a share participant.  If the phone number doesn’t correspond to a known iCloud account, then at share-accept-time, CloudKit offers the accepting participant a vetting process. The accepting participant uses this vetting process to link the phone number to an iCloud account. This method searches for share participants asynchronously and with a low priority. If you want the task to execute with a higher priority, create an instance of CKFetchShareParticipantsOperation and configure it to use the necessary priority.