Perform Long Press Gesture Programmatically

Question

I am developing an sdk. I want to perform the long press gesture added to a view Programmatically. I have tried changing the state of the gesture recognizer and dispatching the message to the main loop but this does not perform the action

    for (UIGestureRecognizer *currentGesture in currentElement.gestureRecognizers){
        if ([currentGesture isKindOfClass:[UILongPressGestureRecognizer class]]){
            UILongPressGestureRecognizer *longPressGesture = (UILongPressGestureRecognizer *)currentGesture;
            longPressGesture.state = UIGestureRecognizerStateBegan;
            [[NSRunLoop mainRunLoop] runUntilDate:[NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:0.01]];
            longPressGesture.state = UIGestureRecognizerStateChanged;
            [[NSRunLoop mainRunLoop] runUntilDate:[NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:0.5]];
            longPressGesture.state = UIGestureRecognizerStateEnded;
            [[NSRunLoop mainRunLoop] runUntilDate:[NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:1.0]];
            [longPressGesture reset];
            break;
        }
    }

This is what I have I tried. Can anyone help me resolve this?

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