---
title: recipients
framework: messageui
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: messageui/mfmessagecomposeviewcontroller/recipients
---

# recipients

An array of strings that contains the initial recipients of the message.

## Declaration

```swift
var recipients: [String]? { get set }
```

## Discussion

Discussion If you want to provide an initial array of one or more recipients for a message, do so before you display it. After the message is displayed you cannot change the value of this property. Each string in the array should contain the phone number of the intended recipient.

## See Also

### Setting the initial message information

- [subject](messageui/mfmessagecomposeviewcontroller/subject.md)
- [body](messageui/mfmessagecomposeviewcontroller/body.md)
- [message](messageui/mfmessagecomposeviewcontroller/message.md)