You want to be able to detect when the user taps and holds his finger on a view for a certain period of time.

Create an instance of the UILongPressGestureRecognizer class and add it to the view that has to detect long tap gestures. The .h file of the view controller is defined in this way:

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

@interface Detecting_Long_Press_GesturesViewController : UIViewController

@property (nonatomic, strong)
  UILongPressGestureRecognizer *longPressGestureRecognizer;

@property (nonatomic, strong) UIButton *dummyButton;

@end

Here is the viewDidLoad instance method of the view controller that uses the long press gesture recognizer that we defined in the .m file: