I find that when I make a call to setCenterCoordinate and have animated:YES, then if my MKMapView is removed/released while that animation is underway, I lose all ability to receive UI events (i.e. touch events) anywhere at all so I am effectively locked out from interacting with my app.
I'm not sure why this would happen versus some other side effect, but does anyone know either why this occurs or how I can try killing the animation that is mid-way or even query if it is still on-going to avoid removing it while it is animating?