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# shareParticipants(forPhoneNumbers:)

Fetches share participants with the specified phone numbers and returns them to an awaiting caller.

```
func shareParticipants(forPhoneNumbers phoneNumbers: [String]) async throws -> [String : Result<CKShare.Participant, any Error>]
```

## Parameters

`phoneNumbers`

The share participants’ phone numbers.

## Return Value

A dictionary of fetched share participants. The dictionary uses the phone numbers you specify in `phoneNumbers` as its keys. The value of each key is a <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/Swift/Result> that contains either the corresponding fetched share participant, or an error that describes why CloudKit can’t fetch that share participant.

## Discussion

CloudKit can translate any valid phone number into a share participant. If the phone number doesn’t correspond to a known iCloud account, then at share-accept-time, CloudKit offers the accepting participant a vetting process. The accepting participant uses this vetting process to link the phone number to an iCloud account.

This method searches for share participants asynchronously and with a low priority. If you want the task to execute with a higher priority, create an instance of [`CKFetchShareParticipantsOperation`](/documentation/CloudKit/CKFetchShareParticipantsOperation) and configure it to use the necessary priority.

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