---
title: Anchors
framework: realitykit
role: collectionGroup
role_heading: API Collection
path: realitykit/scene-content-anchors
---

# Anchors

Lock virtual content to the real world.

## Overview

Overview RealityKit anchors all entities in a scene to an anchor target in the same scene, such as the ground, an image, or a position relative to its parent view. RealityKit provides several types you can use as the target for your anchors.

## Topics

### Anchoring components

- [AnchoringComponent](realitykit/anchoringcomponent.md)
- [AnchoringComponent.Target](realitykit/anchoringcomponent/target-swift.enum.md)
- [AnchoringComponent.TrackingMode](realitykit/anchoringcomponent/trackingmode-swift.struct.md)
- [ARKitAnchorComponent](realitykit/arkitanchorcomponent.md)
- [AnchorEntity](realitykit/anchorentity.md)
- [HasAnchoring](realitykit/hasanchoring.md)

### Surface anchor characterization

- [AnchoringComponent.Target.Alignment](realitykit/anchoringcomponent/target-swift.enum/alignment.md)
- [AnchoringComponent.Target.Classification](realitykit/anchoringcomponent/target-swift.enum/classification.md)

### Image and object tracking

- [AnchoringComponent.ImageAnchoringSource](realitykit/anchoringcomponent/imageanchoringsource.md)
- [AnchoringComponent.ObjectAnchoringSource](realitykit/anchoringcomponent/objectanchoringsource.md)

### Hand tracking

- [Happy Beam](visionos/happybeam.md)
- [AnchoringComponent.Target.HandLocation](realitykit/anchoringcomponent/target-swift.enum/handlocation.md)
- [AnchoringComponent.Target.Chirality](realitykit/anchoringcomponent/target-swift.enum/chirality.md)

### Spatial tracking

- [SpatialTrackingSession](realitykit/spatialtrackingsession.md)
- [SpatialTrackingSession.Configuration](realitykit/spatialtrackingsession/configuration.md)
- [SpatialTrackingSession.Configuration.AnchorCapability](realitykit/spatialtrackingsession/configuration/anchorcapability.md)
- [SpatialTrackingSession.Configuration.SceneUnderstandingCapability](realitykit/spatialtrackingsession/configuration/sceneunderstandingcapability.md)
- [SpatialTrackingSession.Configuration.Camera](realitykit/spatialtrackingsession/configuration/camera.md)
- [SpatialTrackingSession.UnavailableCapabilities](realitykit/spatialtrackingsession/unavailablecapabilities.md)

### Body and face tracking

- [Creating an App for Face-Painting in AR](realitykit/creating-an-app-for-face-painting-in-ar.md)
- [Occluding virtual content with people](arkit/occluding-virtual-content-with-people.md)
- [Placing entities using head and device transform](visionos/placing-entities-using-head-and-device-transform.md)
- [BodyTrackingComponent](realitykit/bodytrackingcomponent.md)
- [BodyTrackedEntity](realitykit/bodytrackedentity.md)
- [HasBodyTracking](realitykit/hasbodytracking.md)

### Accessory tracking

- [Tracking a handheld accessory as a virtual sculpting tool](realitykit/tracking-a-handheld-accessory-as-a-virtual-sculpting-tool.md)

### Physics simulation space

- [AnchoringComponent.PhysicsSimulation](realitykit/anchoringcomponent/physicssimulation-swift.enum.md)

## See Also

### Scene content

- [Hello World](visionos/world.md)
- [Enabling video reflections in an immersive environment](visionos/enabling-video-reflections-in-an-immersive-environment.md)
- [Creating a spatial drawing app with RealityKit](realitykit/creating-a-spatial-drawing-app-with-realitykit.md)
- [Generating interactive geometry with RealityKit](realitykit/generating-interactive-geometry-with-realitykit.md)
- [Combining 2D and 3D views in an immersive app](realitykit/combining-2d-and-3d-views-in-an-immersive-app.md)
- [Transforming RealityKit entities using gestures](realitykit/transforming-realitykit-entities-with-gestures.md)
- [Responding to gestures on an entity](realitykit/responding-to-gestures-on-an-entity.md)
- [Models and meshes](realitykit/scene-content-models-and-meshes.md)
- [Materials, textures, and shaders](realitykit/scene-content-materials-and-shaders.md)
- [Lights and cameras](realitykit/scene-content-lights-and-cameras.md)
- [Content synchronization](realitykit/scene-content-content-synchronization.md)
- [Audio](realitykit/scene-content-audio.md)
- [Videos](realitykit/scene-content-videos.md)
- [Images](realitykit/scene-content-images.md)
- [Mesh deformation](realitykit/scene-content-mesh-deformation.md)