---
title: workingFormat
framework: coreimage
role: symbol
role_heading: Type Property
path: coreimage/cicontextoption/workingformat
---

# workingFormat

A Core Image context option key to specify the pixel format to for intermediate results when rendering.

## Declaration

```swift
static let workingFormat: CIContextOption
```

## Discussion

Discussion The value for this key is an NSNumber instance containing a CIFormat value. The supported values for the working pixel format are:  |   |   |   |  If this option is not specified, then the default is RGBAh. (The default is RGBA8 if your if app is linked against iOS 12 SDK or earlier.)

## See Also

### Type Properties

- [allowLowPower](coreimage/cicontextoption/allowlowpower.md)
- [cacheIntermediates](coreimage/cicontextoption/cacheintermediates.md)
- [highQualityDownsample](coreimage/cicontextoption/highqualitydownsample.md)
- [memoryTarget](coreimage/cicontextoption/memorytarget.md)
- [name](coreimage/cicontextoption/name.md)
- [outputColorSpace](coreimage/cicontextoption/outputcolorspace.md)
- [outputPremultiplied](coreimage/cicontextoption/outputpremultiplied.md)
- [priorityRequestLow](coreimage/cicontextoption/priorityrequestlow.md)
- [useSoftwareRenderer](coreimage/cicontextoption/usesoftwarerenderer.md)
- [workingColorSpace](coreimage/cicontextoption/workingcolorspace.md)