diff --git a/CordovaLib/include/Cordova/CDVPlugin.h b/CordovaLib/include/Cordova/CDVPlugin.h
index 504697d8c..3bb7fe6bd 100644
--- a/CordovaLib/include/Cordova/CDVPlugin.h
+++ b/CordovaLib/include/Cordova/CDVPlugin.h
@@ -28,11 +28,15 @@
 #import <Cordova/CDVWebViewEngineProtocol.h>
 #import <Cordova/CDVInvokedUrlCommand.h>
 
+#ifndef __swift__
+// This global extension to the UIView class causes issues for Swift subclasses
+// of UIView with their own scrollView properties, so we're removing it from
+// the exposed Swift API and marking it as deprecated
+// TODO: Remove in Cordova 9
 @interface UIView (org_apache_cordova_UIView_Extension)
-
-@property (nonatomic, weak) UIScrollView* scrollView;
-
+@property (nonatomic, weak) UIScrollView* scrollView CDV_DEPRECATED(8, "Check for a scrollView property on the view object at runtime and invoke it dynamically.");
 @end
+#endif
 
 extern const NSNotificationName CDVPageDidLoadNotification;
 extern const NSNotificationName CDVPluginHandleOpenURLNotification;