---
title: recipients
framework: intents
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: intents/insearchformessagesintent/recipients
---

# recipients

The contacts who are the recipients of the messages.

## Declaration

```swift
var recipients: [INPerson]? { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion When this property contains one or more INPerson objects, your search should return only messages received by the specified users. Use the operator in the recipientsOperator property to determine whether to search for messages containing all, some, or none of the specified recipients.

## See Also

### Getting the Senders and Recipients

- [recipientsOperator](intents/insearchformessagesintent/recipientsoperator.md)
- [senders](intents/insearchformessagesintent/senders.md)
- [sendersOperator](intents/insearchformessagesintent/sendersoperator.md)
- [speakableGroupNames](intents/insearchformessagesintent/speakablegroupnames.md)
- [speakableGroupNamesOperator](intents/insearchformessagesintent/speakablegroupnamesoperator.md)