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# ContactItem

An item in the contact database.

```
enum ContactItem
```

## Overview

Your app creates instances of this type in your implementations of [`ContactItemEnumerator`](/documentation/ContactProvider/ContactItemEnumerator), delivering arrays of contact items to [`ContactItemContentObserver`](/documentation/ContactProvider/ContactItemContentObserver) and [`ContactItemChangeObserver`](/documentation/ContactProvider/ContactItemChangeObserver) instances.

## Topics

### Handling item type

[`case contact(CNMutableContact, ContactItem.Identifier)`](/documentation/ContactProvider/ContactItem/contact(_:_:))

An item that represents a person or organization.

### Identifying the item

[`struct Identifier`](/documentation/ContactProvider/ContactItem/Identifier)

The app’s identifier for an item in the contact database.

### Hashing

### Comparing contact items

## Relationships

### Conforms To

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

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

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