---
title: SecItemAttr.descriptionItemAttr
framework: security
role: symbol
role_heading: Case
path: security/secitemattr/descriptionitemattr
---

# SecItemAttr.descriptionItemAttr

Identifies the description attribute.

## Declaration

```swift
case descriptionItemAttr
```

## Discussion

Discussion You use this tag to set or get a string value that represents a user-visible string describing this particular kind of item, for example “disk image password”. Keychain strings should use UTF-8 encoding.