As expected (and desired in my case) user interaction is disabled during block based UIView animations. The problem I encounter is if the user attempts to make a selection (tap a UIButton, select a UITableViewCell) during the animation, once it completes it takes 2-3 taps sometimes before the app to become responsive to taps again.
What is the problem?
You need to set UIViewAnimationOptionAllowUserInteraction in options mask.