Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

It's rare that I follow a recommendation from Wirecutter that leads me astray, but this is one of those times. These Moshi touch screen gloves were rated the best touch screen gloves by Wirecutter so I spent a little extra to get "the best." They worked reasonably well for a few weeks, but things went downhill pretty quickly. First of all, after a few weeks of use, the touch screen capabilities started to drop off, requiring more pressure to the screen in order to register. I had thought maybe the gloves were dirty so we washed them in a gentle cycle and things only got worse. Now the gloves barely register at all when touching a phone screen. But the touch screen insensitivity is only one of many problems with these gloves. A.) They're too slippery. You would think that a glove designed for use with phones would be grippy, so it could securely hold a phone. But not these ones. My phone has fallen out of my gloved hand numerous times due to the gloves having virtually no grip. One one occasion, the "moshi slip" resulted in my phone screen cracking, even though the phone was in an Otterbox case. B.) Inner lining separates from outer layer too easily. Almost every time I remove the gloves, the inner lining sticks to my fingers, causing the lining to separate from the outer glove layer. You would think getting the inner lining back inside the outer layer would be simple, but it isn't. It actually requires a fair bit of force to insert each inner finger layer into the outer layer. C.) Cloth composition makes them nearly useless in snow. I used these while shoveling in a snowstorm. It was not a particularly wet snow, but within 30-40 minutes, the gloves were soaked through, causing my fingers to go numb in the cold dampness. Maybe if you buy these gloves, use them for a few weeks then throw them away, you'd have a fine solution. But if you're looking for a good pair of touch screen capable gloves that hold up over time, look elsewhere.