Add UITapGestureRecognizer to UITextView without blocking textView touches

To do that make your view controller adopt to UIGestureRecognizerDelegate and override should recognize simultaneously with gesture recognizer method like:

override func viewDidLoad() {    tapTerm = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: "tapTextView:")    tapTerm.delegate = self    textView.addGestureRecognizer(tapTerm)}func gestureRecognizer(gestureRecognizer: UIGestureRecognizer, shouldRecognizeSimultaneouslyWithGestureRecognizer otherGestureRecognizer: UIGestureRecognizer) -> Bool {    return true}

In case anyone came here looking for @Zell B.'s answer in Objective C, here's the code:

- (void)viewDidLoad {    [super viewDidLoad];    UITapGestureRecognizer *tap = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc]initWithTarget:self action:@selector(textViewTapped:)];    tap.delegate = self;     tap.numberOfTapsRequired = 1;    [self.textView addGestureRecognizer:tap];}   - (void)textViewTapped:(UITapGestureRecognizer *)tap {    //DO SOMTHING }#pragma mark - Gesture recognizer delegate- (BOOL)gestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer shouldRecognizeSimultaneouslyWithGestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)otherGestureRecognizer {    return YES; }

PS: Don't forget < UIGestureRecognizerDelegate >

Swift 4.2
The following steps allows me to escape a full-screen UITextView with a tap, whilst allowing to scroll the contents of the UITextView:

1. Disconnected the UIGestureRecognizer from the UITableView.
2. Made a CustomTextView: UITextView.
3. Added a 'sender' var to the particular UIViewController with the CustomTextView.
4. Trap for 'Touches Ended...'
5. Call for an excape function within the sender UIViewController.

class CustomTextView: UITextView {    var sender: DocViewController?    override func touchesEnded(_ touches: Set<UITouch>, with event: UIEvent?) {        if let controller = sender {            controller.handleSwipeGesture()        }    }}

I can either scroll the contents of the UITextView or merely tap to exit.
The 'sender' is set from the hosting UIViewController at creation.