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title: Characteristic Properties
framework: homekit
role: collectionGroup
role_heading: API Collection
path: homekit/characteristic-properties
---

# Characteristic Properties

The properties that characteristics can have.

## Overview

Overview Check to see if a characteristic’s properties array contains any of these constants to learn something about the corresponding characteristic (HMCharacteristic).

## Topics

### Properties of Characteristics

- [HMCharacteristicPropertyReadable](homekit/hmcharacteristicpropertyreadable.md)
- [HMCharacteristicPropertyWritable](homekit/hmcharacteristicpropertywritable.md)
- [HMCharacteristicPropertyHidden](homekit/hmcharacteristicpropertyhidden.md)

## See Also

### Reading characteristic properties

- [properties](homekit/hmcharacteristic/properties.md)