---
title: allowsPickingMultipleItems
framework: uikit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: uikit/uidocumentbrowserviewcontroller/allowspickingmultipleitems
---

# allowsPickingMultipleItems

A Boolean value that determines whether the user can select and open more than one document at a time.

## Declaration

```swift
var allowsPickingMultipleItems: Bool { get set }
```

## Mentioned in

Customizing the document browser

## Discussion

Discussion By default, this property is set to false.

## See Also

### Configuring a document browser

- [allowsDocumentCreation](uikit/uidocumentbrowserviewcontroller/allowsdocumentcreation.md)
- [revealDocument(at:importIfNeeded:completion:)](uikit/uidocumentbrowserviewcontroller/revealdocument(at:importifneeded:completion:).md)
- [contentTypesForRecentDocuments](uikit/uidocumentbrowserviewcontroller/contenttypesforrecentdocuments.md)