Keeping your gloves on while using your smartphone is a new capability this year. Here's how extra-tuned-in touch screens work.

How to Fix a Touch Screen That Isn't Working We've found that the following steps can help a touch screen start working again. You should try them in this order, but some may not apply to your device.

A dirty iPhone screen can affect your iPhone's ability to detect changes in charge (which is how a touch screen works). Ultimately, this can cause your iPhone's screen to not respond to your touch.

An unresponsive touch screen on an Android phone or any smartphone for that matter could be just a result of a minor software-related issue or a serious hardware problem involving the screen ...

Capacitive touch screen On its iPhone site, Apple has revealed some clues about how the touch screen works. A panel under the screen glass senses your touch using an electrical field.

How do touch screens work? And why do bananas work just as well as your finger but pens don't?

How it works 3D Touch senses pressure using microscopic sensors embedded in several layers of an iPhone screen.

The most advanced multi-touch screens respond to the motion and pressure of numerous fingers. In the Perceptive Pixel design (below), projectors send images through an acrylic screen onto the ...