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# AuthorizationStatus

The status of your app’s authorization to provide parental controls.

```
enum AuthorizationStatus
```

## Topics

### Determining the status

[`case notDetermined`](/documentation/FamilyControls/AuthorizationStatus/notDetermined)

The app hasn’t requested authorization.

[`case denied`](/documentation/FamilyControls/AuthorizationStatus/denied)

The person, parent, or guardian denied the request for authorization.

[`case approved`](/documentation/FamilyControls/AuthorizationStatus/approved)

The person, parent, or guardian approved the request for authorization.

[`case approvedWithDataAccess`](/documentation/FamilyControls/AuthorizationStatus/approvedWithDataAccess)

The person, parent, or guardian approved the request for authorization with
access to non-tokenized family activity data.

### Debugging

[`var description: String`](/documentation/FamilyControls/AuthorizationStatus/description)

A nonlocalized description of the authorization value, suitable for debugging.

## Relationships

### Conforms To

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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