Touchscreen Gloves

Keep your gloves on and still use your phone

Ordinary gloves do not work a touchscreen, so on a cold morning you take a glove off to answer a call or check a map, and your hand freezes. Touchscreen gloves solve that with fingertips the screen can feel. This range suits cyclists, runners, walkers, dog walkers and riders who want warm hands and a working phone.

Why ordinary gloves do not work

A phone or tablet screen is a capacitive screen. It feels the tiny electrical charge your bare fingertip draws at the spot you touch. Anything that does not conduct, such as plastic, wood or an ordinary glove, does nothing at all. Every pen and glove in this department works by giving the screen something it can feel.

A touchscreen glove has conductive fibres, such as carbon or copper thread, woven into its fingertips. They pass the touch from your skin to the glass, so the screen responds as if your finger were bare. On some gloves every fingertip works; on others it is the index finger only.

What is in this range

• Winter gloves for sport and walking. Windproof gloves with touchscreen fingertips for cycling, running, hiking and skiing, made unisex in a few sizes.
• Full finger motorcycle gloves. Gloves with hard knuckle guards, a grippy palm and a touch finger on the index finger. Their page describes them as waterproof and windproof.
• Leather summer motorcycle gloves. Perforated leather gloves for warmer riding, with padding at the palm and knuckles and touchscreen fingertips.

Choosing touchscreen gloves

Choose for the activity first, then the fit. The fingertips only work if they press against your skin, so a glove that is too big, with empty space at the tips, will not register a touch reliably. Check each glove's sizes against your hand before you order. Thick gloves are warm but clumsy for typing, so for writing messages a phone's voice typing may be easier. Keep the fingertips clean and dry, because dirt and wet can make them less responsive.

If you ride, set your route and music before you set off. The guide to bike and motorbike phone mounts explains why it is better not to touch the phone while moving, gloves or not, and the mounts themselves are in bike and motorbike phone mounts.

Questions people ask about touchscreen gloves

Do touchscreen gloves work on every phone?

They work on capacitive touchscreens, which is what phones and tablets have, iPhone and Android alike.

My gloves have stopped working on the screen. Why?

Usually the fit or the fingertip. Make sure the tip is snug against your finger, and clean off any dirt.

How long does delivery take?

Delivery is included in every price and tracked to your door. Each product page says when it usually arrives.

More to look at

• Capacitive stylus pens
• Bike and motorbike phone mounts
• Running armbands
• For cyclists
• All stylus and touch