---
title: playbackState
framework: mediaplayer
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: mediaplayer/mpmovieplayercontroller/playbackstate
---

# playbackState

The current playback state of the movie player.

## Declaration

```swift
var playbackState: MPMoviePlaybackState { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion The playback state is affected by programmatic calls to play, pause, or stop the movie player. It can also be affected by user interactions or by the network, in cases where streaming content cannot be buffered fast enough. See the MPMoviePlaybackState enumeration for possible values of this property. To be notified of changes to the playback state of a movie player, register for the MPMoviePlayerPlaybackStateDidChangeNotification notification.

## See Also

### Controlling and monitoring playback

- [loadState](mediaplayer/mpmovieplayercontroller/loadstate.md)
- [initialPlaybackTime](mediaplayer/mpmovieplayercontroller/initialplaybacktime.md)
- [endPlaybackTime](mediaplayer/mpmovieplayercontroller/endplaybacktime.md)
- [shouldAutoplay](mediaplayer/mpmovieplayercontroller/shouldautoplay.md)
- [readyForDisplay](mediaplayer/mpmovieplayercontroller/readyfordisplay.md)
- [repeatMode](mediaplayer/mpmovieplayercontroller/repeatmode.md)
- [timedMetadata](mediaplayer/mpmovieplayercontroller/timedmetadata.md)