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9 best touch screen gloves for men that are stylish, smartphone-friendly, and will keep your hands warm this winter
GLOVES: convenient for keeping your hands warm, inconvenient when you need to use your mobile phone. Enter the best touch screen gloves for men.
This is the highly sophisticated elevator pitch we imagine was used when the inventor of the touch screen glove first took their idea to market. And man, were they onto something.
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As we become increasingly inseparable from our digital devices, the need for gloves that allow for touch screen use is one of those little luxuries you shouldn’t be without.
The best touch screen gloves for men allow for easy swiping of your phone or tablet, making taking a phone call outside completely seamless — all the while looking stylish and keeping your hands warm.
Made with conductive coatings on the fingertips (mostly the finger and thumb), they can also come in handy at the ATM — or even at a self-service checkout when you’ve popped in for one item and don’t want to faff around with de-gloving and re-gloving.
To make life even easier for you, we’ve scoured the web and found the best touch screen gloves for men available to shop right now.
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1. Nike Tech Gloves
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Nike Tech Gloves, £21.02 from Amazon – buy here
For those who like a bit of sports branding with their gloves, Nike’s grey tech gloves are a must.
With a stylish three-tone knitted fabric — ideal for the cold weather — these feature touch-screen compatible thumb and fingers, as well as a silicone grip pattern on the palms and fingers which will help you keep hold of your phone.
And with Nike’s unmistakable ‘swoosh’ detail, they’re an ideal gift for sports fans.
2. The North Face Men’s Denali Etip Gloves
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Men’s Denali Etip Gloves, £35 from The North Face – buy here
The North Face is a go-to brand for cold-weather gear, so you can always trust that its gloves will deliver.
Inspired by the classic Denali Jacket from 1989, these Etip gloves are crafted from the same moisture-wicking soft fleece, with a silicone gripper and conductive technology in the palms to enable you to use your phone.
With five-finger touchscreen capabilities, these are ideal for ‘proper’ scrolling — and the fleece is 100% recycled, making them a greener choice too.
3. Dents’ Men’s ViralOff Touchscreen Cotton Gloves
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Men’s ViralOff Touchscreen Cotton Gloves, £34 from Dents – buy here
Luxury British leather company Dents has been making leather gloves since 1777 and manages to combine its time-honoured craft with contemporary design features.
Case in point: these classic cotton gloves feature embroidered touchscreen thumb and index fingertips to keep smartphone users happy.
They’ve also been treated with “Polygiene ViralOff” technology, which claims to give “added protection by reducing tested viruses and bacteria on the fabric by up to 99% in 2 hours”. Sounds good to us.
4. The North Face Etip Recycled Gloves
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The North Face Etip Recycled Gloves, £73.45 from Amazon – buy here
The North Face is a well-known brand when it comes to winter clothes, and the Etip Recycled Gloves are a good example of this.
Made with flexible recycled fleece, these gloves feature a silicone gripper palm to avoid your phone from slipping.
They also feature full-palm conductivity to enable phone use with all your fingers.
In addition, the gloves’ radiometric articulation capabilities keep your hands in their natural relaxed position for unrestricted comfort in the cold.
The North Face Etip Recycled Gloves come in six different sizes and five different colour options.
5. SEALSKINZ Ultra Grip Knitted Gloves
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SEALSKINZ Ultra Grip Knitted Gloves, £30.93 from Amazon – buy here
The Ultra Grip Knitted Gloves from SEALSKINZ are built with three layers to provide warmth, durability and waterproofing.
These nylon gloves are ideal for moderately cold water and they feature silicone printed palm and fingers for firm handling and added grip.
They also have touch-screen capabilities, but only on the index finger and thumb.
The gloves’ Merino wool lining provides moisture control, insulation and comfort, and their high stretch construction allows for a supportive, comfortable fit.
The SEALSKINZ Ultra Grip Knitted Gloves are available in five different colour options.
6. Under Armour Youth Softshell Gloves
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Under Armour Youth Softshell Gloves, £62.30 from Amazon – buy here
Under Armour is another well-known brand when it comes to cold-resistant equipment, and these gloves are no exception.
The Youth Softshell gloves are made of polyester and are designed to repel rain and snow without sacrificing breathability.
They also feature Under Armour’ ColdGear Infrared technology, which offers a soft, thermo-conductive inner coating to absorb and retain body heat.
In addition, Under Armour’s Tech Touch print on thumbs and index fingers allows for use of the gloves with touch screen devices.
The Youth Softshell gloves are made for young people, so make sure you select the right size for your child!
7. Mujjo Knitted Touch-screen Winter Gloves
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Mujjo Knitted Touch-screen Winter Gloves, £23.57 from Amazon – buy here
The Mujjo Knitted Touch-screen Winter gloves are an unusually original take on touch-screen gloves.
There are silver-coated nylon fibres knitted into the glove fabric to allow for an all-around touch-screen experience.
The gloves’ silicone grip dots located on the palms ensure a firm grip on your phone, and a leather strap over the wrist enables magnetic snap closure.
The Mujjo Knitted Touch-screen Winter Gloves come in either a single-layer model or double-layered for particularly cold weather.
They also feature a unisex design.
8. GliderGloves Copper Infused Touch Screen Gloves
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GliderGloves Copper Infused Touch Screen Gloves, £25.38 from Amazon – buy here
In the GliderGloves, copper is infused directly into the nylon fabric, providing longer-lasting touchscreen sensitivity than just a thin coating.
The conductive copper yarn weaves cover the whole surface of the gloves, making them touch-screen all around.
The GliderGloves are fitted with a thin but durable acrylic mesh across the palms, to ensure a steady grip on your phone.
They also offer a soft brushed interior layer, which is double-lined for added warmth.
In addition, these gloves come in two flavours, urban and winter, to satisfy any taste.
9. HONYAR Touch Screen Gloves
HONYARThese gloves are designed to keep your hands warm even in particularly cold weather[/caption]
HONYAR Whole Palm Touchscreen Knit Gloves, £9.99 from Amazon – buy here
These touch-screen gloves are quite thick and can lock in heat for several hours.
Their thermal inner lining is ultra-soft and gives a lot of warmth and comfort, but it’s also breathable.
The gloves’ wrist bands offer good elasticity to keep them safely closed around your skin and prevent cold air and wind from getting through.
The conductive fibres throughout the whole palm also make these gloves touch-screen.
Just keep in mind these are thick gloves, so your touch-screen control precision may be slightly affected.
How do I choose the best touch screen gloves for me?
Fabric type is the most important thing to consider when buying gloves of any kind.
After all, you may get the most conductive touch-screen gloves around, but if your hands are still freezing when wearing them, it defeats the purpose of wearing gloves in the first place.
That being said, the right type of fabric will not only keep your hands warm and comfy but also provide responsive touch-screen capabilities.
Style and price are also factors to consider when grabbing a good pair of touch-screen gloves.
How do touch screen gloves work?
Long story short, in touch screen gloves, the fingertips (and sometimes the rest of the gloves’ surface) are made of a conductive material.
This allows them to absorb the electrical current produced by modern (capacitive) touchscreen devices.
In other words, when touching a smartphone or tablet’s screen while wearing touch screen gloves, the conductive material will absorb some of its electrical current, just like a bare finger would.
Can you wash touch screen gloves?
It depends. Most touch screen gloves can be hand-washed, but very few can be washed in a machine.
This is because the conductive material in your touch screen gloves could be ruined by washing at excessive temperature.
That being said, the majority of cotton and polyester gloves are machine washable, even touch screen ones.
They may lose sensitivity to screens after repeated washings, however, so make sure to check your glove’s care label to find out how to properly wash them.
Do touch screen gloves work with a fingerprint scanner?
Unfortunately, they do not.
The fingerprint sensors in your smartphones need to read your actual fingerprint to unlock your device, so that won’t work through a layer of fabric.
If you intend to use your touch screen gloves a lot this winter, however, you can always change your phone unlocking method to something else, including face ID or PIN.
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