Smartphone addiction - strategies

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I am helping my - let’s call her aunt - who is a single parent, with her daughter’s addiction to her phone. Which is impacting her sleep, schoolwork and general wellbeing. My aunt is totally paralysed and has no idea how to approach this and is at her wits end.

Does anyone have ideas for helping my niece and her mum? Niece is 15.

Confiscate the phone and give her a dumb phone. She is too old for the family lock down typed apps as they all switch off then they hit 16.