---
title: UIApplication.State
framework: uikit
role: symbol
role_heading: Enumeration
path: uikit/uiapplication/state
---

# UIApplication.State

Constants that indicate the running states of an app.

## Declaration

```swift
enum State
```

## Topics

### Constants

- [UIApplication.State.active](uikit/uiapplication/state/active.md)
- [UIApplication.State.inactive](uikit/uiapplication/state/inactive.md)
- [UIApplication.State.background](uikit/uiapplication/state/background.md)

### Initializers

- [init(rawValue:)](uikit/uiapplication/state/init(rawvalue:).md)

## Relationships

### Conforms To

- [BitwiseCopyable](swift/bitwisecopyable.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [RawRepresentable](swift/rawrepresentable.md)
- [Sendable](swift/sendable.md)
- [SendableMetatype](swift/sendablemetatype.md)

## See Also

### Getting the application state

- [applicationState](uikit/uiapplication/applicationstate.md)