I will preface this by saying DH is a great husband and dad. He does his fair share of housework and parenting, works full time and has the kids when I work evenings, is loving and kind.
However, he has a problem with being on his phone a lot. Generally I don't actually mind this, I use mine a lot too - everyone does. But he seems to be incapable of listening or multitasking while on his phone. For example my daughter will be playing and chatting to him and he is on his phone, not listening and just responding "mmhmm" or "yeah" at random intervals. If she asks him to look at something shes doing, he looks up for a second and then his eyes drift back to the screen. If he doesn't have the phone there, this isn't a problem and he plays with her lovely.
Same thing in the evenings I will try and have a conversation but he is only half listening because he is reading something on reddit. And then he will ask me a question which is something I've just told him. If I ask him to put his phone away, then it's fine and we can have a nice chat. Given the chance he would sit in silence next to me on his phone all evening. Then I go to bed and he says hes coming up shortly but its another 2 hours because he loses track of time reading his phone.
I feel bad and controlling to complain about this because he really is great in most other ways, but I keep feeling like we are often coming second to his phone and I dont know how to address it. Really I just wanted somewhere to vent a bit. Has anyone had the same issue and could suggest what I could ask him to do?