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# UIApplication.Category

Constants that describe the types of apps in the system.

```
enum Category
```

## Overview

Use the values in this enumeration with [`isDefault(_:)`](/documentation/UIKit/UIApplication/isDefault(_:)) (or, in Objective-C, [`defaultStatusForCategory:error:`](/documentation/UIKit/UIApplication/defaultStatusForCategory:error:)) to find if your app is the person’s default for a category.

## Topics

### Application categories

[`case webBrowser`](/documentation/UIKit/UIApplication/Category/webBrowser)

The app is a web browser.

### Initializers

[`init?(rawValue: Int)`](/documentation/UIKit/UIApplication/Category/init(rawValue:))

## Relationships

### Conforms To

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

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

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

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

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

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

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