CGPoint relative to view
Consider a screen point (CGPoint) and a view (UIView), which is somewhere inside the view hierarchy (it can be a subview of other views). How can you convert the point to a point relative to the view's coordinates? First, convert the point from screen coordinates to the coordinates of your main window: UIWindow *mainWindow = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] keyWindow]; CGPoint pointInWindowCoords = [mainWindow convertPoint:pointInScreenCoords fromWindow:nil]; Second, convert the point from window coords to view coords: CGPoint pointInViewCoords = [myView convertPoint:pointInWindowCoords