UIScrollView prevents touchesBegan, touchesMoved, touchesEnded on view controller

Question

I am handling touches for a couple of my UI components in my view controller (custom subclass of UIViewController). It has methods touchesBegan:withEvent:,

Answer 1

"It was working fine. Then I added a scroll view (UIScrollView) as the top view in the hierarchy."

is your scrollview on top of your contentview that contains items?

all your components should be in the scrollview and not the view behind the scrollview