---
title: placeholderView
framework: extensionkit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: extensionkit/exhostviewcontroller/placeholderview
---

# placeholderView

The view to display when the view controller has no app extension content to display.

## Declaration

```swift
var placeholderView: UIView { get set }
```

```swift
var placeholderView: NSView { get set }
```

## See Also

### Configuring the view controller

- [configuration](extensionkit/exhostviewcontroller/configuration-swift.property.md)
- [EXHostViewController.Configuration](extensionkit/exhostviewcontroller/configuration-swift.struct.md)