---
title: "DropletLiveActivityPriority, DroppyKit"
description: "How much a live activity matters right now (DroppyKit 1.23.0)."
canonical: "https://getdroppy.app/docs/droppykit/api/droplet-live-activity-priority"
last-updated: "2026-09-09"
---

# DropletLiveActivityPriority

How much a live activity matters right now (DroppyKit 1.23.0).

`enum DropletLiveActivityPriority`

Available from DroppyKit 1.23.0.

Five bands on the 0...1000 scale the host compares [`priority`](https://getdroppy.app/docs/droppykit/api/live-activity-state#priority) on, lowest first. Pick the band that says what the row is, never a number to outbid another droplet:

| Band | Value | Raw priorities in it | For |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `ambient` | 100 | below 200 | Something that is simply true: a status, a clock, a price |
| `status` | 300 | 200...399 | A state the user chose and wants to keep in view: a mode, a connection, a session |
| `progress` | 500 | 400...599 | Work that runs and ends: a build, an upload, a sync |
| `countdown` | 700 | 600...799 | Time running out: a timer, a departure, a deadline |
| `attention` | 900 | 800 and above | Something to act on now: a failed build, a call, a timer that rang |

Droppy compares bands, not numbers: two droplets in the same band tie, whatever raw numbers they published, and the tie goes to the activity whose presentation changed most recently. A droplet that publishes 299 to beat 250 is in the same band and gains nothing. No band takes the seat from Droppy's own activities, which are not on this scale at all.

## Cases

### DropletLiveActivityPriority.ambient

`case ambient`

Something that is simply true: a status, a clock, a price.

### DropletLiveActivityPriority.status

`case status`

A state the user chose and wants in view: a mode, a connection.

### DropletLiveActivityPriority.progress

`case progress`

Work that runs and ends: a build, an upload, a sync.

### DropletLiveActivityPriority.countdown

`case countdown`

Time running out: a timer, a departure, a deadline.

### DropletLiveActivityPriority.attention

`case attention`

Something the user should act on now.

## Initializers

### init(clamping:)

`init(clamping priority: Int)`

The band a raw [`priority`](https://getdroppy.app/docs/droppykit/api/live-activity-state#priority) falls in, the way the host reads it: held to 0...1000, then 200 points per band.

### init(rawValue:)

`init?(rawValue: Int)`

## Operators

### <(_:_:)

`static func < (lhs: DropletLiveActivityPriority, rhs: DropletLiveActivityPriority) -> Bool`