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# AVFileType

The uniform type identifiers for various file formats.

```
struct AVFileType
```

## Topics

### File types

[`AHAP`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVFileType/AHAP)

The UTI for the Apple Haptics Audio Pattern file format.

[`SCC`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVFileType/SCC)

The UTI for the Scenarist closed-caption file format.

[`ac3`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVFileType/ac3)

The UTI for the AC3 audio file format.

[`aifc`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVFileType/aifc)

The UTI for the AIFC audio file format.

[`aiff`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVFileType/aiff)

The UTI for the AIFF audio file format.

[`amr`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVFileType/amr)

The UTI for the adaptive multirate audio file format.

[`appleiTT`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVFileType/appleiTT)

The UTI for the Apple iTT caption file format.

[`au`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVFileType/au)

The UTI for the Sun/NeXT audio file format.

[`avci`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVFileType/avci)

The UTI for the high-efficiency image file format that contains H.264 compressed images.

[`caf`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVFileType/caf)

The UTI for the Core Audio Format.

[`dcm`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVFileType/dcm)

A UTI for the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) file format.

[`dng`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVFileType/dng)

The UTI for the Adobe Digital Negative file format.

[`eac3`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVFileType/eac3)

The UTI for the enhanced AC3 audio file format.

[`heic`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVFileType/heic)

The UTI for the high-efficiency image file format that contains HEVC compressed images.

[`heif`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVFileType/heif)

The UTI for the high-efficiency image file format that contains compressed images from any codec.

[`jpg`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVFileType/jpg)

The UTI for the JPEG (JFIF) format.

[`m4a`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVFileType/m4a)

The UTI for the Apple m4a audio file format.

[`m4v`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVFileType/m4v)

The UTI for the iTunes video file format.

[`mobile3GPP2`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVFileType/mobile3GPP2)

The UTI for the 3GPP2 file format.

[`mobile3GPP`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVFileType/mobile3GPP)

The UTI for the 3GPP file format.

[`mov`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVFileType/mov)

The UTI for the QuickTime movie file format.

[`mp3`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVFileType/mp3)

The UTI for the MPEG Audio Layer III file format.

[`mp4`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVFileType/mp4)

The UTI for the MPEG-4 file format.

[`qta`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVFileType/qta)

A UTI for the QuickTime audio file format

[`tif`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVFileType/tif)

The UTI for the tagged image file format.

[`wav`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVFileType/wav)

The UTI for the WAVE audio file format.

### Initializers

[`init(_:)`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVFileType/init(_:))

Creates a file type with a string.

[`init(rawValue:)`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVFileType/init(rawValue:))

Creates a file type from its raw string value.


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