10 Best Touch Activated Kitchen Faucets: Expert Picks

Customer Review: “Easy to install, very functional, love the touch controls and temperature indicator. Looks sleek and clean.”

Customer Review: “Amazing faucet! Love the tap and touch-less options!”

Customer Review: “We’ve had this faucet installed for a few months now and really love it. In addition to a standard water flow and a standard spray pattern, the faucet also offers a strong single stream spray for loosening whatever is attached to the object you are cleaning. We love the smooth function of the handle. Installation was done professionally, and they reported it was a very simple process. I love Delta products and consider them a good balance between price and quality. The surface is spot resistant, which is a nice feature and overall the faucet is durable and well constructed. According to our installer, the internal design is a good one.”

Customer Review: “Totally love this faucet, goes perfect with my black farmhouse sink. And so glad I got the touch feature, works great!”

Customer Review: “I received the faucet with no damage. All parts were in the box (no tools, use your own). It came with simple instructions that had pictures to make it easier to install. Took me a little over an hour because I hate going under the sink. It was easy though. Quality seems great. Easy to swivel or move the faucet/sprayer from side to side or out of the way. Great water pressure. I really like the restaurant look and it easily goes back after you pull the sprayer out. Make sure to install the weight provided at the spot they designated with tape. Simple upgrade at a great price.”

Customer Review: “The media could not be loaded. I absolutely love this kitchen faucet. The design is very nice and honestly adorable — it instantly upgraded the look of my sink. The LED temperature indicator is one of my favorite features: blue for cold, green for warm, and red for hot, which is a great warning sign when the water is very hot. It’s super helpful and looks really cool at the same time.Installation was very easy and straightforward. I had no issues setting it up, which was a huge plus. What really surprised me is the quality — this faucet is better than the $250 sink faucet I had before and ended up replacing. It feels sturdy, well-made, and durable.For the price, you really can’t go wrong. I honestly feel like this faucet will last longer than my previous one. Overall, I highly recommend this faucet. Great design, great features, great price — nothing to complain about!”

Customer Review: “Easy to install, nice quality at a great price. It was a huge upgrade from the ugly old faucet I had. Everything functions as it should and looks wonderful.”

Customer Review: “This faucet is so high end for such an affordable price! It was easy to install and after a year out still looks brand new! It swivels easily and it’s made sturdy material with cheap plastic. The color is the same as when I got it no chipping or scratches! This is you advertising here and a great quality product!”

Customer Review: “I installed this on an inexpensive plastic tub sink which I purchased from a local home improvement store.I replaced the tiny cheap faucet which came with the tub sink.This is much much more functional, as well as more attractive. Highly satisfied.”

Customer Review: “We have had this installed for over a year now, and the faucet is holding up great. Sprayer still functions as it did when new, no water dripping, and still remains spotless when water is splashed on it. Installation instructions were clear, and overall easy Installation.”

Customer Review: “The faucet arrived on time and looks very nice. My initial feeling for this faucet was one disappointment as I expected it to work well out of the box- but learnt that I have to learn to use it. Initially after my plumber installed it, it turned on and off repeatedly. After a helpful interaction with Delta heals line and exchange of photographs, I got explicit instructions on how to arrange the wires! Rearranging the wires and preventing them from touching each other helped. I had also bought the power adaptor for the faucet, and the plumber had connected the both the batteries and the power adaptor. When I removed the batteries the touch function on the faucet improved dramatically, and it started working like the manufacturer said it would. However the faucet continued to drip after touch off! After a number of helpful videos and reading a lot of instructions, I learnt that the issue was with the “solenoid” . Disconnecting the solenoid for an hour and using the faucet as a conventional faucet before reconnecting the power adaptor solved the problem. Now the faucet works like they said it would, I am happy with it!The best feature apart from the looks and the touch feature are the lights that come on to show how hot the water is! Now the faucet is about 5 days old and hope it continues to work well. Caution- while using make sure water does not drip on to the bottom of the faucet- can cause the faucet to turn on and off!On the whole it is a nice faucet. The touch function is nice and hope it is functional in the long run. I have changed my rating to give it 5 stars! Very happy with it!”

Customer Review: “I absolutely love it. It was relatively easy to install and exceeds all expectations.”

Customer Review: “Great, reliable brand. I upgraded, to the motion/touch faucet.Everything is great, except the motion part. It turns on if I walk behind it (open floor plan kitchen, no wall behind the sink). I’ll have it on and turn the faucet it will turn off. I’ll be rinsing dishes (one sink) and move the pan and it will turn off.Hoping a sensitivity setting could be incorporated for sinks with no walls behind them, or move the sensor.Maybe a cover over it, with a tab to un-cover if your hands are nasty.I really enjoy the faucet and it’s features, it is aggravating when you are using water and it shuts off due to movement, or don’t need it and it turns on.Wishing I would have paid less and just got the touch faucet. I know it works.Scott”

Customer Review: “Really like not having to touch when you have messy hands. I leave it on but when our dishwasher runs it activates it so we turn it off when we run the dishwasher now. We always turn it off when we travel!”

Customer Review: “First, for context: I am not a plumber; before this product, I had never installed a faucet before (kitchen or otherwise); and no one would ever mistake me for having any kind of experience that would qualify me as anything other than a total and complete novice at installing faucets. That said, for the reasons below, I would recommend this faucet AND recommend a DIY installation.I did a LOT of research and reading reviews before purchasing this Delta faucet (SpotShield Stainless). Our old kitchen sink faucet was another well-known and expensive brand (starts with “M”), but after just four years it kept coming loose from the countertop and then started leaking profusely. I was determined not to repeat that with a new faucet. I was a little hesitant about getting a “touch” faucet given the wide range of reviews on point, but after digging into things, I decided to go with this Delta “touch” faucet. A month into using it, here are my thoughts on the DIY installation and product itself:1. DECIDING TO DO A DIY INSTALLATIONI decided to install the faucet myself for several reasons. Nothing against plumbers, but some reviewers suggested that installing this faucet yourself may result in the “touch” feature working better, as you may pay greater attention to detail during the installation. I don’t know how true that is, but so far so good. Also, I wasn’t keen on paying someone else to install it, and while I had never done this before, I like a challenge. And a number of reviewers recommended watching a video that Delta made on installing this specific faucet (available on Youtube), so I figured I had at least a decent chance of not messing it up.2. SKIP THE WRITTEN INSTRUCTIONS, WATCH THE VIDEO(!!!)I tried reading through the instructions first, but they might as well have been written in Greek (spoiler alert, I don’t know Greek). So I watched the Delta DIY video all the way through and felt WAY better about deciding to do it myself. I do recommend watching the entire video BEFORE you start installation, so you know what to expect. It’s pretty short (I think less than 15 minutes) and worth that additional watch. I then set up my laptop by the sink and paused the video after each installation step so I could complete the step and get ready for the next one.3. DIY INSTALLATION WAS SMOOTH AND TOOK LESS THAN 2 HRS (INCLUDING BEER BREAK)Based on some of the reviews I read, I was prepared for the DIY installation to take all afternoon. As it turns out, even taking my time, installation took less than two hours, including 25-30 minutes to remove the old faucet, a beer break to celebrate removing the old faucet, and testing the new faucet to make sure it didn’t leak, etc. Especially with the video, each step was pretty straight forward. And I was particularly careful on the steps that related to the “touch” feature. At some points it would have helped to have longer arms, but I managed. (For reference, I am a 5’6” female with normal-length arms.)4. ONE PERSON CAN DO FULL INSTALLATIONThe video notes in a couple of places that having a second person can be helpful for certain steps, but also shows how to do them with one person. At the time I decided to do the installation, I was the only one home. While I can see where having a second would have helped for some steps, I was definitely able to manage pretty well on my own.5. MINIMAL TOOLS NEEDEDI only needed a screwdriver and a wrench, as well as a monkey wrench to help hold pipes still while tightening parts. Most people probably won’t need the monkey wrench, but it was helpful in my case because of limited space to maneuver under our sink.6. DELTA FAUCET APPEARS TO HAVE HIGHER-QUALITY PARTSAs I am not a professional, I’m not sure how much weight anyone should give this observation, but it appeared to me that this Delta faucet has higher-quality parts than our old “M”-brand faucet. This was especially apparent with respect to the “anchor” part that secures the base of the faucet to the countertop (it seemed much more substantial).7. “TOUCH” FEATURE WORKS GREAT (SO FAR)As noted above, I read a range of reviews regarding the “touch” feature. Some people said that the feature stopped working after just a couple of weeks or months. One month in, we have not had any issues with the “touch” feature. As our faucet gets A LOT of use, and we use the “touch” feature almost exclusively, I think this a fairly good point of reference.Note that the faucet comes packaged with a battery pack to power this feature, but you can purchase an add-on that will allow you to plug into an electrical outlet. We are using the battery pack and will see how long the first set of batteries lasts (reviews varied a lot on this point as well).I will note that it took me a day or two to get a hang of the “touch” feature, but once I did, things were great. Everyone else in family (kids and adults) got the hang of it right away.8. WE LOVE THE “TOUCH” FEATUREWe do a lot of cooking and baking and thus spend a lot of time in the kitchen and using the sink. We all love the “touch” feature and never want to go back to a fully “manual” faucet.* * *If anything changes, I will update this review. But so far, so good!”

Customer Review: “It has been nearly four years since I purchased this faucet and after my recent interaction with Delta customer support, I felt I had to leave a review for it to explain why you should not hesitate to buy this faucet.I won’t spend a lot of time getting into features that you can read about on the product page. The flow handle works smoothly and the RED->BLUE temperature indicator is very helpful for avoiding unpleasant surprises. The touch control works as expected (with a couple of exceptions I’ll detail below). So far it works as well as it did the day I bought it.Due to some previous issues with my plumbing I elected to hire a professional plumber to come and install it for me so I can’t say if it’s easy to install. However I can say that the plumber was done in about 15 minutes and looked at me like I had wasted his time on something so simple, so there’s that:)When I installed this, the plumber predicted that the electrical valve would succumb to calcification and stop working in about 9 months. Four years later I haven’t lost any water pressure and I’m still using the original valve.I’ve had two interactions with Delta customer support for this faucet. The first time it seemed that the electrical valve (the one the plumber warned me about) had stopped working. This was about two years after I bought it. Delta shipped me a brand new valve, I swapped it in and it didn’t work either. It turned out to be my mistake. The battery holder is much larger than it needs to be to hold the 6 AA batteries that power the valve so there’s a sort of frame/spacer thing that you slot the batteries into before you place them into the holder. If you take the spacer out, the holder is the exact size for using C batteries instead of AA. C batteries are the same voltage as AA, just hold more charge so I figured I wouldn’t have to change batteries out as often if I used C batteries instead. There’s nothing in the manual about using C batteries, but it did work, but only for a couple of days. Not really sure what happened – maybe the weight of the C batteries bent the battery contact or something? From that point on, even putting in a fresh set of C batteries did no good – I even used a multimeter to test that the batteries were good. That’s why I thought the valve was bad. When the new valve didn’t work either, I swapped the AA batteries back in and suddenly everything worked perfectly again. Weird but I’ll take it. I have the brand new replacement valve tucked away in case I ever need it, but as I said, it’s still going strong after nearly 4 years.The only real problem I’ve had with this faucet is the magnet that holds the sprayer in place on the faucet neck. Touching the faucet neck with soaking wet hands, or submersing the whole sprayer head led to water getting trapped around the magnet in the faucet neck which caused it to rust. At about the 3 year mark the magnet disintegrated and fell out and the sprayer would no longer stay in place when retracted. I dealt with this for nearly a year before deciding to call Delta and see what they had to say about it. The person I spoke with on the phone was extremely helpful and conscientious – he even used a mobile tool that let me show him what I was seeing with my phone. He knew exactly what the problem was, gave me a procedure to do on my end and sent out a kit to replace the disintegrated magnet. In hindsight the disintegrating magnet was completely preventable had I know that it was important to keep that area of the faucet dry. (There’s no reason it should get wet normally). When the kit arrived, it was a cinch to pull out the old magnet holder with the supplied tool and pop in a new magnet, now I’m back to good-as-new operation, and the faucet still shines up like the day I bought it. I’m super impressed with Delta’s customer support.The only other quirk I’ve encountered with the faucet is almost a fun thing. The touch control works by measuring changes in capacitance – when you touch the faucet then pull away, the electrical field of your body interacts with the metal in the faucet to register a “tap”. 99% of the time this works perfectly (unless the battery is getting low in the control valve), but every once in a while the faucet turns on when something else modifies the electrical field near the sink – such as opening the microwave door, lol. I’m also able to turn the sink off and on via remote by activating a 5W 2-way radio from a couple of feet away!Not to worry, if the sink is accidentally turned on, it will stop running after a certain number of minutes.In conclusion, this is a fantastic faucet and it has exceeded my expectations. It’s not perfect but Delta support more than makes up for that.”

Customer Review: “Absolutely love this Faucet! It’s a beautiful Champagne color, not gold! It works perfectly as described. Touch on and off! Perfect for messy hands, just tap on to clean. There is a small light at the base that turns blue when the water is cold, purple when warm and red when hot so you always know the temperature of the water even if you can’t feel it right away. The sprayer is smaller but very powerful and has a great magnetic docking feature! It swivels from the base. Our plumber installed with no problem. This does have 6 AA batteries that power the touch feature. If it stops working check those first! I am extremely pleased with this purchase and would highly recommend.”

Customer Review: “Beautiful faucet, easy to install, love the touch to start and stop while washing dishes. Not as much water pressure as I’d hope, but maybe that’s a good green feature.”

Customer Review: “We’ve had this faucet installed for a few months now and really love it. In addition to a standard water flow and a standard spray pattern, the faucet also offers a strong single stream spray for loosening whatever is attached to the object you are cleaning. We love the smooth function of the handle. Installation was done professionally, and they reported it was a very simple process. I love Delta products and consider them a good balance between price and quality. The surface is spot resistant, which is a nice feature and overall the faucet is durable and well constructed. According to our installer, the internal design is a good one.”

Customer Review: “Totally love this faucet, goes perfect with my black farmhouse sink. And so glad I got the touch feature, works great!”