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# delaysTouchesEnded

A Boolean value that determines whether the gesture recognizer delays sending touches in an end phase to its view.

```
var delaysTouchesEnded: Bool { get set }
```

## Discussion

When the value of this property is <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/Swift/true> (the default) and the gesture recognizer is analyzing touch events, the window suspends delivery of touch objects in the [`UITouch.Phase.ended`](/documentation/UIKit/UITouch/Phase-swift.enum/ended) phase to the attached view. If the gesture recognizer subsequently recognizes its gesture, these touch objects are canceled (with a [`touchesCancelled(_:with:)`](/documentation/UIKit/UIResponder/touchesCancelled(_:with:)) message). If the gesture recognizer doesn’t recognize its gesture, the window delivers these objects in an invocation of the view’s [`touchesEnded(_:with:)`](/documentation/UIKit/UIResponder/touchesEnded(_:with:)) method. Set this property to <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/Swift/false> to have touch objects in the [`UITouch.Phase.ended`](/documentation/UIKit/UITouch/Phase-swift.enum/ended) delivered to the view while the gesture recognizer is analyzing the same touches.

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