As Mikael pointed out, this has been answered at Scrolling with two fingers with a UIScrollView
There are many answers over the years and Guto Araujo's answer did it for me. Just changed the scrollView to my tableView instance:
self.myTableView.panGestureRecognizer.minimumNumberOfTouches = 2;
I'll upvote Guto as soon as my rep is >= 15 Thanks Guto for the answer and Mikael for pointing in the right direction.