--- title: What are enums in Swift? – Donny Wals | daily.dev description: Enums in Swift are value types used for declaring type declarations and representing a finite set of predefined states. They can be useful for managing a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-are-enums-in-swift-donny-wals-arvcsmfby twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What are enums in Swift? – Donny Wals | daily.dev og:description: Enums in Swift are value types used for declaring type declarations and representing a finite set of predefined states. They can be useful for managing a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-are-enums-in-swift-donny-wals-arvcsmfby og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ARVCSmFby.png og:image:alt: What are enums in Swift? – Donny Wals og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What are enums in Swift? – Donny Wals **[Donny Wals](https://daily.dev/sources/donnywals)** · 5 min read · 7 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Enums in Swift are value types used for declaring type declarations and representing a finite set of predefined states. They can be useful for managing a limited set of predetermined values, managing state in applications, and grouping closely related constants. Enums can have associated values and raw values. It is important to keep enums small and consult Apple's usage of enums for guidance. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#mobile](https://daily.dev/tags/mobile), [#swift](https://daily.dev/tags/swift), [#swiftui](https://daily.dev/tags/swiftui) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/what-are-enums-in-swift-donny-wals-arvcsmfby) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"What are enums in Swift? – Donny Wals","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-are-enums-in-swift-donny-wals-arvcsmfby","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-are-enums-in-swift-donny-wals-arvcsmfby"},"datePublished":"2024-05-08T11:17:50.020Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T09:28:18.744Z","description":"Enums in Swift are value types used for declaring type declarations and representing a finite set of predefined states. They can be useful for managing a...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/717818e637a0e6ebb82e50ca33be9f99?_a=AQAEuiZ","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/717818e637a0e6ebb82e50ca33be9f99?_a=AQAEuiZ","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Donny Wals","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Donny Wals","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/d069732f62f0498387583206d3e04390","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/donnywals"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-are-enums-in-swift-donny-wals-arvcsmfby","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":7},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"mobile,swift,swiftui","timeRequired":"PT5M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Donny Wals","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/donnywals"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"What are enums in Swift? – Donny Wals"}]} ```