UIButton inside a view that has a UITapGestureRecognizer

In iOS 6.0 and later, default control actions prevent overlapping gesture recognizer behavior. For example, the default action for a button is a single tap. If you have a single tap gesture recognizer attached to a button’s parent view, and the user taps the button, then the button’s action method receives the touch event instead of the gesture recognizer. This applies only to gesture recognition that overlaps the default action for a control, which includes:.....

From Apple's API doc

Swift 5

Button on superview with tapgesture

 func gestureRecognizer(_ gestureRecognizer: UIGestureRecognizer, shouldReceive touch: UITouch) -> Bool {
    if let _ = touch.view as? UIButton { return false }
    return true
}

In my case implementing hitTest worked for me. I had collection view with button

This method traverses the view hierarchy by calling the point(inside:with:) method of each subview to determine which subview should receive a touch event. If point(inside:with:) returns true, then the subview’s hierarchy is similarly traversed until the frontmost view containing the specified point is found.

override func hitTest(_ point: CGPoint, with event: UIEvent?) -> UIView? {
    guard isUserInteractionEnabled else { return nil }

    guard !isHidden else { return nil }

    guard alpha >= 0.01 else { return nil }

    guard self.point(inside: point, with: event) else { return nil }

    for eachImageCell in collectionView.visibleCells {
        for eachImageButton in eachImageCell.subviews {
            if let crossButton = eachImageButton as? UIButton {
                if crossButton.point(inside: convert(point, to: crossButton), with: event) {
                    return crossButton
                }
            }
        }
    }
    return super.hitTest(point, with: event)
}