---
title: url
framework: metal
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: metal/mtlbinaryarchivedescriptor/url
---

# url

A URL to a Metal binary archive file.

## Declaration

```swift
var url: URL? { get set }
```

## Mentioned in

Creating binary archives from device-built pipeline state objects

## Discussion

Discussion You can use this method to load a binary archive you created with an MTLBinaryArchive instance’s serialize(to:) method.