I have two UIImageViews one as subview of the other. The subview is smaller and is centered on the screen.

Both have UITapGestureRecognizer assigned and both were intended to respond to single taps.

A single tap on the main view (= the area outside the subview) is fine, but a tap inside the subview is seen as the main view as a tap too. How can I have this to work independently?

both views have setCancelsTouchesInView and setDelaysTouchesEnded set to NO and both have the same delegate (yes, I need to have the same delegate and cannot change that).

How may I force the main view to ignore any tap on the area that belongs to its subview?

thanks for any help.