Lily Allen recently revealed in an interview with the Sunday Times that she is committed to keeping her smartphone strictly business. In order to make sure that her phone does not take over her time, she purchased a device geared towards kids which doesn't allow any social media or internet scrolling. "I now have a kids’ phone called Pinwheel. It has no browsing capability and no social media, but you can still have Uber and Spotify," she told the Sunday Times. "My husband is the caregiver on it, so he controls what I’m allowed to have as an app on my phone." The "Smile" singer added that she also controls what is on her husband's phone as well. "I’m the controller of his as well. Because they’re made for kids, he’s my parent, and I’m his parent. ‘What’s your child’s name? David, aged 50.'"

Allen and the "Stranger Things" actor tied the knot in September 2020 in Las Vegas. She has two daughters, Ethel, 12 and Marnie, 11, from her previous marriage to Sam Cooper. Allen shared that she feels as though social media was taking up her time when she could be using it for creative expression. She also shared that she recently took away her daughters' smartphones after she read a book that focused on the idea that children under the age of 14 shouldn't use the devices. "The creative side of my brain has been ruined by smartphones. I feel like everyone feels the same," Allen said. "I don’t know anyone who could possibly say that the quality of their life is improved by the presence of a smartphone. I think it’s destroyed us as a species. It’s horrendous that they’re designed to be so addictive. Some of us have more addictive personalities than others. It’s evil."

The singer also shared that she disagrees with the fact that anything you say on the internet is set in stone. "It’s unnatural. I don’t think, as human beings, that you’re meant to share ideas and for them to be set in stone," she said. "We are meant to evolve as people. How are you meant to do that if you’re always held to account by things that you’ve said in the past? I said that 20 years ago, when I was a completely different person, hadn’t been married, didn’t have children. Of course I had a different outlook on life. Don’t hold me to that."