---
title: plainText
framework: uniformtypeidentifiers
role: symbol
role_heading: Type Property
path: uniformtypeidentifiers/uttype-swift.struct/plaintext
---

# plainText

A type that represents text with no markup and an unspecified encoding.

## Declaration

```swift
static var plainText: UTType { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion The identifier for this type is public.plain-text. This type conforms to UTTypeText.

## See Also

### Text files

- [text](uniformtypeidentifiers/uttype-swift.struct/text.md)
- [utf8PlainText](uniformtypeidentifiers/uttype-swift.struct/utf8plaintext.md)
- [utf16PlainText](uniformtypeidentifiers/uttype-swift.struct/utf16plaintext.md)
- [utf16ExternalPlainText](uniformtypeidentifiers/uttype-swift.struct/utf16externalplaintext.md)