So, since I never got any answers, this is the solution I've been going with. Essentially if the inner collection view isn't at the top or bottom, I reset the y offset change the outer scroll view has in scrollViewDidScroll. Code looks like this:
- (void)scrollViewDidScroll:(UIScrollView *)scrollView {
if (scrollView == _outerScrollView) {
if (![self innerScrollIsAtTop] && ![self innerScrollIsAtBottom] && !self.allowOuterScroll) {
[scrollView setContentOffset:CGPointMake(scrollView.contentOffset.x, self.lastContentOffset)];
}
self.lastContentOffset = scrollView.contentOffset.y;
}
}
using these 2 conveniences:
- (BOOL)innerScrollIsAtTop {
return _innerCollectionView.contentOffset.y <= 0;
}
- (BOOL)innerScrollIsAtBottom {
CGFloat zoom = self.zoomScale;
CGFloat height = _innerCollectionView.frame.size.height;
CGFloat contentHeight = _innerCollectionView.contentSize.height;
CGPoint offset = _innerCollectionView.contentOffset;
return offset.y + height / zoom >= contentHeight;
}
And you'll need 2 class variables, a float to hold the previous y content offset of the outer scroll, and a BOOL to hold whether you want to allow the outer scroll view to scroll, which you can set to YES while zooming or programatically scrolling. This solution fixes the double scroll, but does have a cumbersome hack within scrollviewDidScroll that may bite you later and you constantly need to work around, but for now this is the solution I've been using.