---
title: CNAuthorizationStatus
framework: contacts
role: symbol
role_heading: Enumeration
path: contacts/cnauthorizationstatus
---

# CNAuthorizationStatus

An authorization status the user can grant for an app to access the specified entity type.

## Declaration

```swift
enum CNAuthorizationStatus
```

## Topics

### Authorization statuses

- [CNAuthorizationStatus.notDetermined](contacts/cnauthorizationstatus/notdetermined.md)
- [CNAuthorizationStatus.restricted](contacts/cnauthorizationstatus/restricted.md)
- [CNAuthorizationStatus.denied](contacts/cnauthorizationstatus/denied.md)
- [CNAuthorizationStatus.authorized](contacts/cnauthorizationstatus/authorized.md)
- [CNAuthorizationStatus.limited](contacts/cnauthorizationstatus/limited.md)

### Initializers

- [init(rawValue:)](contacts/cnauthorizationstatus/init(rawvalue:).md)

## Relationships

### Conforms To

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

## See Also

### Requesting access to the user’s contacts

- [requestAccess(for:completionHandler:)](contacts/cncontactstore/requestaccess(for:completionhandler:).md)
- [authorizationStatus(for:)](contacts/cncontactstore/authorizationstatus(for:).md)
- [CNEntityType](contacts/cnentitytype.md)