Allow UIScrollView and its subviews to both respond to a touch

Question

I want both my UIScrollView and its subviews to receive all touch events inside the subview. Each can respond in its own way.

Alternatively, if tap gestures were fo

Answer 1

I was having this same problem, but with a scrollview that was inside UIPageViewController, so it had to be handled slightly differently.

By changing the cancelsTouchesInView property to false for each recognizer on the UIScrollView I was able to receives touches to buttons inside the UIPageViewController.

I did so by adding this code into viewDidLoad:

guard let recognizers = self.pageViewController.view.subviews[0].gestureRecognizers else {
     print("No gesture recognizers on scrollview.")
     return
}

for recognizer in recognizers {
    recognizer.cancelsTouchesInView = false
}