---
title: minificationFilter
framework: quartzcore
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: quartzcore/calayer/minificationfilter
---

# minificationFilter

The filter used when reducing the size of the content.

## Declaration

```swift
var minificationFilter: CALayerContentsFilter { get set }
```

## Discussion

Discussion The possible values for this property are listed in Scaling Filters. The default value of this property is linear.

## See Also

### Layer filters

- [filters](quartzcore/calayer/filters.md)
- [compositingFilter](quartzcore/calayer/compositingfilter.md)
- [backgroundFilters](quartzcore/calayer/backgroundfilters.md)
- [minificationFilterBias](quartzcore/calayer/minificationfilterbias.md)
- [magnificationFilter](quartzcore/calayer/magnificationfilter.md)