---
title: people
framework: corespotlight
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: corespotlight/spotlightsearchtool/guidanceprofile/people
---

# people

A Boolean value that indicates whether to determine matches using the presence of specific people.

## Declaration

```swift
var people: Bool?
```

## Discussion

Discussion Set the value of this property to true to give the model the option to match values based on references to people. For example, you might enable this option to match items with a specific creator or author value. If you don’t specify a value for this property, the default value is false.

## See Also

### Specifying the supported search techniques

- [contentType](corespotlight/spotlightsearchtool/guidanceprofile/contenttype.md)
- [dates](corespotlight/spotlightsearchtool/guidanceprofile/dates.md)
- [numericMatch](corespotlight/spotlightsearchtool/guidanceprofile/numericmatch.md)
- [similarityMatch](corespotlight/spotlightsearchtool/guidanceprofile/similaritymatch.md)
- [textMatch](corespotlight/spotlightsearchtool/guidanceprofile/textmatch.md)