---
title: UIDocument.CreationIntent
framework: uikit
role: symbol
role_heading: Structure
path: uikit/uidocument/creationintent
---

# UIDocument.CreationIntent

An app intent that creates new documents for your app.

## Declaration

```swift
struct CreationIntent
```

## Mentioned in

Customizing a document-based app’s launch experience

## Overview

Overview UIKit provides a default intent. You can extend this structure to provide additional intents for your app. // Extend the creation intent enumeration to add custom options for document creation. extension UIDocument.CreationIntent {     static let template = UIDocument.CreationIntent("template") } For more information, see Customizing a document-based app’s launch experience.

## Topics

### Accessing creation intents

- [default](uikit/uidocument/creationintent/default.md)

### Creating new intents

- [init(_:)](uikit/uidocument/creationintent/init(_:).md)
- [init(rawValue:)](uikit/uidocument/creationintent/init(rawvalue:).md)

## Relationships

### Conforms To

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