---
title: INMessage
framework: intents
role: symbol
role_heading: Class
path: intents/inmessage
---

# INMessage

An object that describes a sent or received message.

## Declaration

```swift
class INMessage
```

## Mentioned in

Improving interactions between Siri and your messaging app

## Overview

Overview When your app responds to an INSearchForMessagesIntent, you create instances of this class to provide Siri with information about the messages in your app. Each message contains a unique identifier, the participants’ details, and the content. You can group messages into larger discussions and, if you app supports multiple services, identify the service that delivers each message.

## Topics

### Creating a Message

- [init(identifier:conversationIdentifier:content:dateSent:sender:recipients:groupName:messageType:serviceName:audioMessageFile:)](intents/inmessage/init(identifier:conversationidentifier:content:datesent:sender:recipients:groupname:messagetype:servicename:audiomessagefile:).md)
- [init(identifier:conversationIdentifier:content:dateSent:sender:recipients:groupName:messageType:serviceName:)](intents/inmessage/init(identifier:conversationidentifier:content:datesent:sender:recipients:groupname:messagetype:servicename:).md)
- [init(identifier:conversationIdentifier:content:dateSent:sender:recipients:groupName:messageType:)](intents/inmessage/init(identifier:conversationidentifier:content:datesent:sender:recipients:groupname:messagetype:).md)
- [init(identifier:conversationIdentifier:content:dateSent:sender:recipients:messageType:)](intents/inmessage/init(identifier:conversationidentifier:content:datesent:sender:recipients:messagetype:).md)
- [init(identifier:content:dateSent:sender:recipients:)](intents/inmessage/init(identifier:content:datesent:sender:recipients:).md)

### Identifying the Message

- [identifier](intents/inmessage/identifier.md)
- [conversationIdentifier](intents/inmessage/conversationidentifier.md)

### Getting the Participants

- [sender](intents/inmessage/sender.md)
- [recipients](intents/inmessage/recipients.md)

### Getting the Content

- [content](intents/inmessage/content.md)
- [audioMessageFile](intents/inmessage/audiomessagefile.md)

### Getting the Supplementary Attributes

- [dateSent](intents/inmessage/datesent.md)
- [groupName](intents/inmessage/groupname.md)
- [messageType](intents/inmessage/messagetype.md)
- [INMessageType](intents/inmessagetype.md)
- [serviceName](intents/inmessage/servicename.md)

### Initializers

- [init(coder:)](intents/inmessage/init(coder:).md)
- [init(identifier:conversationIdentifier:content:dateSent:sender:recipients:groupName:messageType:serviceName:attachmentFiles:)](intents/inmessage/init(identifier:conversationidentifier:content:datesent:sender:recipients:groupname:messagetype:servicename:attachmentfiles:).md)
- [init(identifier:conversationIdentifier:content:dateSent:sender:recipients:groupName:serviceName:linkMetadata:)](intents/inmessage/init(identifier:conversationidentifier:content:datesent:sender:recipients:groupname:servicename:linkmetadata:).md)
- [init(identifier:conversationIdentifier:content:dateSent:sender:recipients:groupName:serviceName:messageType:numberOfAttachments:)](intents/inmessage/init(identifier:conversationidentifier:content:datesent:sender:recipients:groupname:servicename:messagetype:numberofattachments:).md)
- [init(identifier:conversationIdentifier:content:dateSent:sender:recipients:groupName:serviceName:messageType:referencedMessage:reaction:)](intents/inmessage/init(identifier:conversationidentifier:content:datesent:sender:recipients:groupname:servicename:messagetype:referencedmessage:reaction:).md)
- [init(identifier:conversationIdentifier:content:dateSent:sender:recipients:groupName:serviceName:messageType:referencedMessage:sticker:reaction:)](intents/inmessage/init(identifier:conversationidentifier:content:datesent:sender:recipients:groupname:servicename:messagetype:referencedmessage:sticker:reaction:).md)

### Instance Properties

- [attachmentFiles](intents/inmessage/attachmentfiles.md)
- [linkMetadata](intents/inmessage/linkmetadata.md)
- [numberOfAttachments](intents/inmessage/numberofattachments.md)
- [reaction](intents/inmessage/reaction.md)
- [sticker](intents/inmessage/sticker.md)

## Relationships

### Inherits From

- [NSObject](objectivec/nsobject-swift.class.md)

### Conforms To

- [CVarArg](swift/cvararg.md)
- [CustomDebugStringConvertible](swift/customdebugstringconvertible.md)
- [CustomStringConvertible](swift/customstringconvertible.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [NSCoding](foundation/nscoding.md)
- [NSCopying](foundation/nscopying.md)
- [NSObjectProtocol](objectivec/nsobjectprotocol.md)
- [NSSecureCoding](foundation/nssecurecoding.md)

## See Also

### Managing Message Information

- [INMessageAttribute](intents/inmessageattribute.md)
- [INMessageAttributeOptions](intents/inmessageattributeoptions.md)
- [INPerson](intents/inperson.md)