How to get touches when parent view has userInteractionEnabled set to NO in iOS

Question

When the parent view has userInteractionEnabled=NO, its subviews will not accept touch events even if their userInteractionEnabled property is set to YES.

Is there a

Answer 1

Swift solution- You need to have a custom view class for the parent view and add the following code to it. Please keep the parent view's user-interactions enabled.

I hope the following code will help you.

class MyCustomParentView: UIView {    
    override func hitTest(_ point: CGPoint, with event: UIEvent?) -> UIView? {
        let hitView = super.hitTest(point, with: event)
        if hitView == self {
            return nil
        } else {
            return hitView
        }
    }
}