Disable all user interaction for MKMapView except for a given MKAnnotationView

Question

I have a MKMapView and a few MKAnnotationViews on my map.

When a certain event happens, I would like to disable user interaction on my MKMapView but leave interaction on my MKAnnotationView available.

Ideally, it would be

self.mapView.userInteraction = NO;
self.myAnnotationView.userInteraction = YES;

Printing

[self.mapView recursiveDescription]

I have found that my annotation view is nested in MKNewAnnotationContainerView which doesn't have a publicly exposed property on Apple's class reference.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

On the mapView, set scrollEnabled , zoomEnabled , pitchEnabled , and rotateEnabled to NO and leave userInteractionEnabled as YES .

This way, the annotation views will still be enabled.

For pitchEnabled and rotateEnabled , you may want to check if those properties exist before setting them (eg. check if the map view respondsToSelector:@selector(setPitchEnabled) , etc.) since they were added in iOS 7.