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# ActivityState

The enum that describes the state of a Live Activity in its life cycle.

```
enum ActivityState
```

## Topics

### Live Activity states

[`case active`](/documentation/ActivityKit/ActivityState/active)

The Live Activity is active, visible, and can receive content updates.

[`case dismissed`](/documentation/ActivityKit/ActivityState/dismissed)

The Live Activity ended and is no longer visible because a person or the system removed it.

[`case pending`](/documentation/ActivityKit/ActivityState/pending)

The Live Activity is scheduled to start at a specified date but hasn’t started yet.

[`case stale`](/documentation/ActivityKit/ActivityState/stale)

The Live Activity content is out of date and needs an update.

[`case ended`](/documentation/ActivityKit/ActivityState/ended)

The Live Activity is visible, but a person, the app, or the system ended it, and it won’t update its content
anymore.

## Relationships

### Conforms To

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

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

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

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

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

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

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