---
title: current()
framework: foundation
role: symbol
role_heading: Type Method
path: foundation/progress/current()
---

# current()

Returns the progress instance, if any.

## Declaration

```swift
class func current() -> Progress?
```

## Return Value

Return Value The progress instance for the current thread, if any.

## Discussion

Discussion If you invoke becomeCurrent(withPendingUnitCount:) on the current thread, this method returns the progress instance. Use this per-thread current() value to allow code that performs work to report useful progress even when it’s widely separated from the code that actually presents progress information to the user, and without requiring layers of intervening code to pass around an Progress instance. To ensure that you report progress in known units of work, you typically work with a suboperation progress object that you create by calling discreteProgress(totalUnitCount:).

## See Also

### Accessing the Current Progress Object

- [becomeCurrent(withPendingUnitCount:)](foundation/progress/becomecurrent(withpendingunitcount:).md)
- [performAsCurrent(withPendingUnitCount:using:)](foundation/progress/performascurrent(withpendingunitcount:using:).md)
- [resignCurrent()](foundation/progress/resigncurrent().md)