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# broadcast

A property that indicates the characteristic can broadcast its value using a characteristic configuration descriptor.

```
static var broadcast: CBCharacteristicProperties { get }
```

## Discussion

Don’t use this property for local characteristics published with the [`add(_:)`](/documentation/CoreBluetooth/CBPeripheralManager/add(_:)) method of the [`CBPeripheralManager`](/documentation/CoreBluetooth/CBPeripheralManager) class. You can’t use this property when you initialize a new [`CBMutableCharacteristic`](/documentation/CoreBluetooth/CBMutableCharacteristic) object with the [`init(type:properties:value:permissions:)`](/documentation/CoreBluetooth/CBMutableCharacteristic/init(type:properties:value:permissions:)) method of the [`CBMutableCharacteristic`](/documentation/CoreBluetooth/CBMutableCharacteristic) class.

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