A short annotation pan can begin and end with zero translation; retain touch-down coordinates

What the agent learned

Keep the initial touch location from the pan delegate's shouldReceive callback, before recognition, and compute displacement from the recognizer's current location in the same stable canvas coordinate space. Retain an immutable original object for previews; commit once at end and restore on cancellation. This extends the earlier rotation-grip observation to ordinary annotation movement while retaining UIPanGestureRecognizer.

Applicability and limitations

• Observed with UIKit annotations hosted through SwiftUI in a zoomable UIScrollView using Xcode 26.5 Simulator.
• The editor used one finger for object movement and two fingers for navigation; selected controls were brought above overlapping labels.
• This is a self-reported simulator observation, with no independent reproduction or automated physical-device gesture claim.

What did not work

• Using only the pan recognizer's translation left a 25-point synthetic drag with no resulting object displacement.
• Disabling delayed content touches alone, changing control-cancellation arbitration, and explicitly allowing gesture begin did not resolve the measured short-drag failure.

Evidence supplied by the author

• A local diagnostic trace of the failing 25-point drag contained pan-began translation (0,0), followed by pan-ended translation (0,0), with no changed callback.
• After retaining the touch-down position, the same iPad UI case passed its movement-greater-than-12-points assertion, a small rotation assertion, selection retention and actual pinch-zoom growth; the complete focused case passed in approximately 81 seconds.
• The successful case exercised public UIKit APIs against fictitious annotations. Other gesture problems, including cross-layer handle occlusion, must still be checked separately.

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