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# MKCompassButton

A specialized view that displays the compass heading for its associated map.

```
class MKCompassButton
```

## Overview

Use this class when you want to incorporate a standard compass button into your own view hierarchy. A compass button reflects the current orientation of its associated map view. Tapping the compass button reorients the map so that due north is at the top of the map view.

## Topics

### Creating a compass button

[`init(mapView:)`](/documentation/MapKit/MKCompassButton/init(mapView:))

Creates a compass button and associates it with the specified map view.

### Getting the compass attributes

[`mapView`](/documentation/MapKit/MKCompassButton/mapView)

The map view that provides the heading information for the compass button.

[`compassVisibility`](/documentation/MapKit/MKCompassButton/compassVisibility)

The visibility of the compass button.

[`MKFeatureVisibility`](/documentation/MapKit/MKFeatureVisibility)

Constants that indicate the visibility of different map features.


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