Okay, so I figured this out. Turns out UIView’s block animation by default blocks user interaction, and to get around it you need to pass UIViewAnimationOptionAllowUserInteraction as one of the options. Hopefully someone else will have some use of this information as well.
EDIT: New answer that works in any orientation. The original answer only works when the interface is in portrait orientation. This is b/c view transition animations that replace a view w/ a different view must occur with views at least a level below the first view added to the window (e.g. window.rootViewController.view.anotherView). I’ve implemented a … Read more