Tap on UISlider to Set the Value

It seems like just subclassing UISlider and returning always true to the beginTracking produce the desired effect.

iOS 10 and Swift 3

class CustomSlider: UISlider {
    override func beginTracking(_ touch: UITouch, with event: UIEvent?) -> Bool {
        return true
    }
}

Use the CustomSlider instead of UISlider afterwards in your code.

Looks like you need to actually initialize the tap gesture recognizer in your viewDidLoad() per the code example above. There's a comment there, but I don't see the recognizer being created anywhere.

Swift 2:

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    var slider: UISlider!

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        // Setup the slider

        // Add a gesture recognizer to the slider
        let tapGestureRecognizer = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: "sliderTapped:")
        self.slider.addGestureRecognizer(tapGestureRecognizer)
    }

    func sliderTapped(gestureRecognizer: UIGestureRecognizer) {
        //  print("A")

        let pointTapped: CGPoint = gestureRecognizer.locationInView(self.view)

        let positionOfSlider: CGPoint = slider.frame.origin
        let widthOfSlider: CGFloat = slider.frame.size.width
        let newValue = ((pointTapped.x - positionOfSlider.x) * CGFloat(slider.maximumValue) / widthOfSlider)

        slider.setValue(Float(newValue), animated: true)      
    }
}

Swift 3:

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    var slider: UISlider!

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        // Setup the slider

        // Add a gesture recognizer to the slider
        let tapGestureRecognizer = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(sliderTapped(gestureRecognizer:)))
        self.slider.addGestureRecognizer(tapGestureRecognizer)
    }

    func sliderTapped(gestureRecognizer: UIGestureRecognizer) {
        //  print("A")

        let pointTapped: CGPoint = gestureRecognizer.location(in: self.view)

        let positionOfSlider: CGPoint = slider.frame.origin
        let widthOfSlider: CGFloat = slider.frame.size.width
        let newValue = ((pointTapped.x - positionOfSlider.x) * CGFloat(slider.maximumValue) / widthOfSlider)

        slider.setValue(Float(newValue), animated: true)
    }
}

I like this approach

extension UISlider {
    public func addTapGesture() {
        let tap = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(handleTap(_:)))
        addGestureRecognizer(tap)
    }

    @objc private func handleTap(_ sender: UITapGestureRecognizer) {
        let location = sender.location(in: self)
        let percent = minimumValue + Float(location.x / bounds.width) * maximumValue
        setValue(percent, animated: true)
        sendActions(for: .valueChanged)
    }
}

And later just call

let slider = UISlider()
slider.addTapGesture()

This is my code, based on "myuiviews" answer.
I fixed 2 little "bugs" of the original code.

1 - Tapping on 0 was too difficult, so I made it easier
2 - Sliding the slider's thumb just a little bit was also firing the "tapGestureRecognizer", which makes it return to the initial position, so I added a minimum distance filter to avoid that.

Swift 4

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    var slider: UISlider!

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        // Setup the slider

        // Add a gesture recognizer to the slider
        let tapGestureRecognizer = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(sliderTapped(gestureRecognizer:)))
        self.slider.addGestureRecognizer(tapGestureRecognizer)
    }

    @objc func sliderTapped(gestureRecognizer: UIGestureRecognizer) {
        //  print("A")

        var pointTapped: CGPoint = gestureRecognizer.location(in: self.view)
        pointTapped.x -= 30  //Subtract left constraint (distance of the slider's origin from "self.view" 

        let positionOfSlider: CGPoint = slider.frame.origin
        let widthOfSlider: CGFloat = slider.frame.size.width

        //If tap is too near from the slider thumb, cancel
        let thumbPosition = CGFloat((slider.value / slider.maximumValue)) * widthOfSlider
        let dif = abs(pointTapped.x - thumbPosition)
        let minDistance: CGFloat = 51.0  //You can calibrate this value, but I think this is the maximum distance that tap is recognized
        if dif < minDistance { 
            print("tap too near")
            return
        }

        var newValue: CGFloat
        if pointTapped.x < 10 {
            newValue = 0  //Easier to set slider to 0
        } else {
            newValue = ((pointTapped.x - positionOfSlider.x) * CGFloat(slider.maximumValue) / widthOfSlider)
        }



        slider.setValue(Float(newValue), animated: true)
    }
}