How can you disable or remove a participant from the responder chain?

In iOS, the Responders system forms an event handling chain (responder chain), through which events are passed from one object to another.

To disable or remove a participant from this chain, you can:

• Change the structure of the view or view controller hierarchy, as the responder chain is built based on the hierarchy of objects.
• Remove or disable the object from the hierarchy (for example, remove a view from its superview).
• Override the next method in UIResponder to change the next element in the chain.

Example of overriding next:

class CustomView: UIView {
    override var next: UIResponder? {
        // Return nil to break the chain after this object
        return nil
    }
}

Thus, you can control who is next in the chain and exclude unnecessary participants.