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# PauseWorkoutIntent

An App Intent that lets someone pause your app’s current workout session.

```
protocol PauseWorkoutIntent : SystemIntent
```

## Overview

On Apple Watch Ultra, someone can pause your workout by simultaneously pressing
the Action button and the side button while your app is running a workout
session.

To implement the pause action, create a structure that adopts the
`PauseWorkoutIntent` protocol.

```swift
struct MyPauseWorkoutIntent: PauseWorkoutIntent {
   static var title: LocalizedStringResource = "Pause Workout"

   func perform() async throws -> some IntentResult {
       logger.debug("*** Performing a pause intent. ***")
       await MyWorkoutManager.shared.pauseWorkout()
       return .result()
   }
}
```

This intent needs a [`title`](/documentation/AppIntents/AppIntent/title) property that provides a
localized description of the action, and a [`perform()`](/documentation/AppIntents/AppIntent/perform())
method, which the system calls when it triggers the intent.

For more information, see [Responding to the Action button on Apple Watch Ultra](/documentation/AppIntents/ActionButtonArticle).

## Relationships

### Inherits From

[`SystemIntent`](/documentation/AppIntents/SystemIntent)

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

[`PersistentlyIdentifiable`](/documentation/AppIntents/PersistentlyIdentifiable)

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

[`AppIntent`](/documentation/AppIntents/AppIntent)

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