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9 best touchscreen-friendly gloves that will also keep your hands warm

Wearing winter gloves while using a touchscreen phone often goes about as smoothly as trying to read a book in the dark: you can’t use one without making the other basically obsolete. “For gloves, there is often a compromise between warmth and function,” says Claire Sturzaker, a travel writer and founder of travel blog Tales of a Backpacker. The trick lies all in the material and structure of the gloves, particularly the fingertips.

To find the best touchscreen-friendly gloves, I spoke with winter apparel experts, including Sturzaker, for their guidance and recommendations.

There are a few important features to consider when choosing gloves that are compatible with touchscreens on phones and tablets. Here’s what I kept in mind while curating this list:

• Conductive material: Look for touchscreen gloves made of warm insulated fabric, such as fleece or cashmere, that’s also thin enough to use with a touchscreen phone, especially the fingertips. “Gloves should have conductive fingertips (commonly made of metal fibers or conductive synthetic materials) to allow touchscreen use,” says Eric Mooradian, the vice president of product development at online retailer Heat Holders. Some brands refer to this as “touchscreen conductive”…

The Best Touchscreen Winter Gloves

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No pair of touchscreen gloves is going to let you type a message with flawless accuracy and also keep your hands warm for hours on end. But if you need to type when it’s cold out, we recommend the unisex Moshi Digits Touchscreen Gloves 3.0. After multiple years of testing, we think these are the best touchscreen winter gloves. They’re easier to type in than the competition, they’re warm enough to use for your winter commute, and—following a redesign to include larger hands—they fit a wide range of hand sizes. We also found that the Moshi touchscreen gloves dry faster and have a better grip than other knit gloves we’ve tested.

The typing experience with the Moshi gloves is pretty good. But keep in mind that “pretty good” here is like saying “unbelievably great” in another product category. By comparison, when we asked a tester if a (since discontinued) pair of Lululemon gloves kept their hands warm, they…

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