How to ignore touch events and pass them to another subview’s UIControl objects?

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Probably the best way to do this is to override hitTest:withEvent: in the view that you want to be ignoring touches. Depending on the complexity of your view hierarchy, there are a couple of easy ways to do this.

If you have a reference to the view underneath the view to ignore:

- (UIView *)hitTest:(CGPoint)point withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
    UIView *hitView = [super hitTest:point withEvent:event];

    // If the hitView is THIS view, return the view that you want to receive the touch instead:
    if (hitView == self) {
        return otherView;
    }
    // Else return the hitView (as it could be one of this view's buttons):
    return hitView;
}

If you don’t have a reference to the view:

- (UIView *)hitTest:(CGPoint)point withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
    UIView *hitView = [super hitTest:point withEvent:event];

    // If the hitView is THIS view, return nil and allow hitTest:withEvent: to
    // continue traversing the hierarchy to find the underlying view.
    if (hitView == self) {
        return nil;
    }
    // Else return the hitView (as it could be one of this view's buttons):
    return hitView;
}

I would recommend the first approach as being the most robust (if it’s possible to obtain a reference to the underlying view).

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