---
title: "acceptConnection(fromPeer:)"
framework: gamekit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Method
path: "gamekit/gksession/acceptconnection(frompeer:)"
---

# acceptConnection(fromPeer:)

Called by the delegate to accept a connection request received from a remote peer.

## Declaration

```swift
func acceptConnection(fromPeer peerID: String!) throws
```

## Parameters

- `peerID`: The string identifying the peer that initiated the connection to the session.

## Discussion

Discussion When your session acts as a server, client peers can discover your session and attempt to connect to it. When a client attempts to connect to the session, the delegate’s session(_:didReceiveConnectionRequestFromPeer:) method is called to decide whether the peer should be connected. Your application calls this method to accept the request, or denyConnection(fromPeer:) to reject it. note: In Swift, this method returns Void and is marked with the throws keyword to indicate that it throws an error in cases of failure. You call this method in a try expression and handle any errors in the catch clauses of a do statement, as described in Error Handling in The Swift Programming Language and About Imported Cocoa Error Parameters.

## See Also

### Receiving Connections from a Remote Peer

- [denyConnection(fromPeer:)](gamekit/gksession/denyconnection(frompeer:).md)