---
title: alertTitle
framework: uikit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: uikit/uilocalnotification/alerttitle
---

# alertTitle

A short description of the reason for the alert.

## Declaration

```swift
var alertTitle: String? { get set }
```

## Discussion

Discussion Use this property to provide a short description of the reason for the alert. You may specify a string with the text you want to display or you may specify a string to use as a lookup key in your app’s Localizable.strings file. The default value of this property is nil. Title strings should be short, usually only a couple of words describing the reason for the notification. Apple Watch displays the title string as part of the short look notification interface, which has limited space.

## See Also

### Composing the alert

- [alertBody](uikit/uilocalnotification/alertbody.md)
- [alertAction](uikit/uilocalnotification/alertaction.md)
- [hasAction](uikit/uilocalnotification/hasaction.md)
- [alertLaunchImage](uikit/uilocalnotification/alertlaunchimage.md)
- [category](uikit/uilocalnotification/category.md)