Disable gesture recognizer

UIGestureRecognizer has a property named enabled. This should be good enough to disable your swipes:

swipeGestureRecognizer.enabled = NO;

Edit: For Swift 5

swipeGestureRecognizer.isEnabled = false

Why don't you set the delegate for the swipe gesture recognizer too and handle them within the same delegate method.

- (BOOL)gestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer shouldReceiveTouch:(UITouch *)touch {    if ( [gestureRecognizer isMemberOfClass:[UITapGestureRecognizer class]] ) {        // Return NO for views that don't support Taps    } else if ( [gestureRecognizer isMemberOfClass:[UISwipeGestureRecognizer class]] ) {        // Return NO for views that don't support Swipes    }    return YES;}

I have a similar issue. Some of my disabled users tap and swipe at the same time, so the app moves to the next screen. I set up an option to allow them to use a three-fingered tap instead. I need to invoke the option the popoverControllerDidDismissPopover delegate and when the app first starts. So I wrote a method that combines the answers above. It looks for all of the swipe gesture recognizers and turns them off, then turns on my tap gesture recognizer.

- (void)changeGestureRecognizer {    // Three finger tap to move to next screen    if ([Globals sharedInstance].useDoubleTapToMoveToNextScreen) {        // Let’s see which gestures are active and turn off the swipes        for (UIGestureRecognizer *gestureRecognizer in self.view.gestureRecognizers) {            NSLog(@"The gestureRecognizer is %@", gestureRecognizer);            if ( [gestureRecognizer isMemberOfClass:[UISwipeGestureRecognizer class]] ) gestureRecognizer.enabled = NO;        }        // Add the three finger tap        UITapGestureRecognizer *twoFingerTap = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(handleSwipeNext)];        [twoFingerTap setNumberOfTapsRequired:1];        [twoFingerTap setNumberOfTouchesRequired:3];        [self.view addGestureRecognizer:twoFingerTap];    }}