---
title: preferredDevice
framework: imagecapturecore
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: imagecapturecore/icdevicebrowser/preferreddevice
---

# preferredDevice

Returns a device object that the client application should select when it launches.

## Declaration

```swift
var preferredDevice: ICDevice? { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion If the client application that calls this method is the autolaunch application associated with a device, and that device is the last one attached (through USB, FireWire, or network), then that device is the preferred device. Call this method in the implementation of deviceBrowser(_:didAdd:moreComing:) if the value of moreComing is false; or in the implementation of deviceBrowserDidEnumerateLocalDevices(_:).