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# ASPasskeyCredentialIdentity

A description that uniquely identifies a particular passkey credential.

```
class ASPasskeyCredentialIdentity
```

## Topics

### Creating a credential identity

[`init(relyingPartyIdentifier:userName:credentialID:userHandle:recordIdentifier:)`](/documentation/AuthenticationServices/ASPasskeyCredentialIdentity/init(relyingPartyIdentifier:userName:credentialID:userHandle:recordIdentifier:)-7u7p1)

Initializes a passkey credential identity.

[`init(relyingPartyIdentifier:userName:credentialID:userHandle:recordIdentifier:)`](/documentation/AuthenticationServices/ASPasskeyCredentialIdentity/init(relyingPartyIdentifier:userName:credentialID:userHandle:recordIdentifier:)-9iuhb)

Creates and initializes a passkey credential identity.

[`initWithRelyingPartyIdentifier:userName:credentialID:userHandle:recordIdentifier:`](/documentation/AuthenticationServices/ASPasskeyCredentialIdentity/initWithRelyingPartyIdentifier:userName:credentialID:userHandle:recordIdentifier:)

Initializes a passkey credential identity.

### Ordering credential identities

[`rank`](/documentation/AuthenticationServices/ASPasskeyCredentialIdentity/rank)

An indicator that enables you to prioritize credential identities relative to each other.

### Associating a user

[`userName`](/documentation/AuthenticationServices/ASPasskeyCredentialIdentity/userName)

The username of this passkey credential.

[`userHandle`](/documentation/AuthenticationServices/ASPasskeyCredentialIdentity/userHandle)

The user handle of this passkey credential.

### Associating a relying party

[`relyingPartyIdentifier`](/documentation/AuthenticationServices/ASPasskeyCredentialIdentity/relyingPartyIdentifier)

A string that identifies this identity’s relying party.

### Distinguishing identities

[`credentialID`](/documentation/AuthenticationServices/ASPasskeyCredentialIdentity/credentialID)

The credential identifier for this passkey credential identity.

[`recordIdentifier`](/documentation/AuthenticationServices/ASPasskeyCredentialIdentity/recordIdentifier)

A string used to correlate this identity to a record in your app’s own database.


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