I am a recovering phone addict, and chances are that you are too. We say it mildly because we live in an era where information spreads fast and knowing, no matter how false or useless the information might be = is considered a form of power. Heck, platforms have been able to successfully provide monetization models off our abilities to inform and entertain so there are more legitimate incentives why people are constantly living digital lives.
That said, while it isn't exactly a Meth addiction, there is no bad that a phone addiction does have some rather obvious and negative consequences. The most obvious is the sheer amount of time we spend on it that robs us of the immediate physical experiences we could be having in the present. Even more dangerous is the potential for it to affect our Brain Chemistry in the long term, those effects we still don't fully understand.
At the height of it I was spending around 12 of my waking hours on my mobile device. It is one thing to be engaged in productive work, but another to be completely engaged in mindless social media engagement or scrolling. The later was what I did for quite a while.
Am not even writing this to simply bash phone addictions. A few years ago, I was seemingly addicted to distance running and would always seek out the adrenaline pump whenever had the chance with more and more miles to my boot. I also could not run without my headset so you could say I needed to be constantly stimulated.
Even things that may seemingly be beneficial do need to be evaluated from time to time when they feel too pleasurable in the process. I try to restrict my phone time more strictly these days. While I have recorded remarkable success on that front, some days are better than others.