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# HKDevicePlacementSide

Values that indicate the placement of the device that measured a sample.

```
enum HKDevicePlacementSide
```

## Topics

### Placements

[`case central`](/documentation/HealthKit/HKDevicePlacementSide/central)

A device predominately located near the center of the body.

[`case left`](/documentation/HealthKit/HKDevicePlacementSide/left)

A device predominately located on the left side.

[`case right`](/documentation/HealthKit/HKDevicePlacementSide/right)

A device predominately located on the right side.

[`case unknown`](/documentation/HealthKit/HKDevicePlacementSide/unknown)

The system couldn’t determine the device’s placement.

### Initializers

[`init?(rawValue: Int)`](/documentation/HealthKit/HKDevicePlacementSide/init(rawValue:))

## Relationships

### Conforms To

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

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

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

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

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

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

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