UIScrollView: paging horizontally, scrolling vertically?

Question

How can I force a UIScrollView in which paging and scrolling are on to only move vertically or horizontally at a given moment?

My understanding is that

Answer 1

I managed to solve this by implementing scrollViewDidBeginDragging(_:) and looking at the velocity on the underlying UIPanGestureRecognizer.

NB: With this solution, every pan that would have been diagonal will be ignored by the scrollView.

override func scrollViewWillBeginDragging(_ scrollView: UIScrollView) {
    super.scrollViewWillBeginDragging(scrollView)
    let velocity = scrollView.panGestureRecognizer.velocity(in: scrollView)
    if velocity.x != 0 && velocity.y != 0 {
        scrollView.panGestureRecognizer.isEnabled = false
        scrollView.panGestureRecognizer.isEnabled = true
    }
}