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# ACAccount

The information associated with one of the user’s accounts.

```
class ACAccount
```

## Overview

An [`ACAccount`](/documentation/Accounts/ACAccount) object encapsulates information about a user account stored in the Accounts database. You can create and retrieve accounts using an [`ACAccountStore`](/documentation/Accounts/ACAccountStore) object. The [`ACAccountStore`](/documentation/Accounts/ACAccountStore) object provides an interface to the persistent Accounts database. For each user, all account objects belong to a single [`ACAccountStore`](/documentation/Accounts/ACAccountStore) object.

## Topics

### Creating an Account Object

[`-  initWithAccountType:`](/documentation/Accounts/ACAccount/init(accountType:))

Initializes a new account of the specified type.

### Accessing Properties

[`accountDescription`](/documentation/Accounts/ACAccount/accountDescription)

A human-readable description of the account.

[`accountType`](/documentation/Accounts/ACAccount/accountType)

The type of service account.

[`credential`](/documentation/Accounts/ACAccount/credential)

The credential used to authenticate the user of this account.

[`identifier`](/documentation/Accounts/ACAccount/identifier)

A unique identifier for this account.

[`username`](/documentation/Accounts/ACAccount/username)

The username for this account.

[`userFullName`](/documentation/Accounts/ACAccount/userFullName)

The full name associated with the user account.

## Relationships

### Inherits From

[`NSObject-swift.class`](/documentation/ObjectiveC/NSObject-swift.class)

### Conforms To

[`CustomDebugStringConvertible`](/documentation/Swift/CustomDebugStringConvertible)

[`CustomStringConvertible`](/documentation/Swift/CustomStringConvertible)

[`CVarArg`](/documentation/Swift/CVarArg)

[`Equatable`](/documentation/Swift/Equatable)

[`Hashable`](/documentation/Swift/Hashable)

[`NSObjectProtocol`](/documentation/ObjectiveC/NSObjectProtocol)

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