iOS Allowing user interaction during animation

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So I've these nifty block based animations going at the moment. UIView animateWithDuration..

This locks the screen completely so I want to set the propertly userInteractionEnabled as it will allow me to accept touches while the animation is ongoing etc.

Where & how do I set this property??? I've set the userInteractionEnabled = YES to every single view I create but I still can't do anything until the animation has finished...

- (void) slideLayerDown {
    self.view.userInteractionEnabled = YES;
    
    UIImage *image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"tst.jpg"];
    baseImageView.image = image;
    baseImageView.userInteractionEnabled = YES;
    
    slideLayer = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, -50, 320, 516)];
    slideLayer.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
    slideLayer.userInteractionEnabled = YES;
    
    GradientView *gradientView = [[GradientView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 50)];
    gradientView.userInteractionEnabled = YES;
    [slideLayer addSubview:gradientView];
    
    UIView *bottomView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 50, 320, 466)];
    bottomView.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
    bottomView.userInteractionEnabled = YES;
    [slideLayer addSubview:bottomView];
    
    [baseImageView addSubview:slideLayer];
    
    CGRect frame = slideLayer.frame;
    frame.origin.y = 420;
    
    [UIView animateWithDuration:60 animations:^(void) {
        slideLayer.frame = frame;
    }];
}

In the above we have baseImageView sitting directly on top of self.view set up in IB.

thanks!