Lily Allen and David Harbor control the apps on each other’s phones.
The 39-year-old singer has revealed that she and her Stranger Things star husband have made an unorthodox arrangement to reduce the amount of time they spend scrolling on social media.
Lily told me The Sunday times: ‘I now have a children’s phone called Pinwheel. It has no browsing capabilities and no social media, but you can still have Uber and Spotify.
‘My husband is the caregiver, so he decides what app I can have on my phone. I’m also his manager.’
The Smile hitmaker explained that she laments the way smartphones have “destroyed humanity as a species” and says the devices have had a serious impact on her creativity.
The mother of Ethel, 12, and Marnie, 11, added that she recently took away her daughters’ smartphones after reading a book that said children should not use them until they are 14.
Lily Allen (pictured in February 2024) has revealed that she and her husband have control over each other’s phones
The Smile hitmaker and Stranger Things star David (pictured) are trying to reduce the amount of time they spend looking at a screen
She explained: ‘The creative side of my brain has been ruined by smartphones. I feel like everyone feels the same. I don’t know anyone who can say that the quality of their life improves with the presence of a smartphone.
‘I think it has destroyed us as a species. It’s terrible that they are designed to be so addictive. Some of us have more addictive personalities than others. It’s bad.’
Lily is also frustrated by the way social media can be used to punish comments from the distant past.
The star said: ‘It’s unnatural. I don’t think that as a human being you are meant to share ideas and have them set in stone. We are meant to evolve as humans. How are you supposed to do that if you are always being held accountable for things you have said in the past?
‘I said that twenty years ago, when I was a completely different person, not married and not having children. Of course I had a completely different view on life. Don’t hold me to that.’
Despite her claims about her new phone having limited features, Lily recently claimed she wanted to be buried with her smartphone so no one would find her pornographic search history.
She made the very candid confession during a speech in the series Where There’s A Will There’s A Wake podcast.
Lily Allen has revealed she wants to be buried with her mobile phone so no one can see her internet search history
On the Where There’s a Will, There’s a Wake podcast, Lily said: ‘My Google search history, my porn search history – Saturday nights when the kids are with their dad, that porn trail’
She added: “It always starts very modestly… maybe a bit of shoplifting and security guard. Those kind of things. And then it gets a little dark. We’ll leave it at that because I really don’t want anyone to know! Put it in my beautiful coffin
“It always starts off quite… modestly… maybe a bit of shoplifting and security guard. Those kind of things. And then it gets a little dark. We’ll leave it at that because I really don’t want anyone to know!
The Not Fair singer plans to leave ‘everything’ to her children when she dies, including a secret engagement ring.
Lily revealed that she had the secret piece made to replace the one her first husband Sam bought her when she decided his diamond wasn’t big enough.
She said, “I just have to give it all to my kids, split down the middle, I guess. When my first husband proposed to me, he gave me a very beautiful diamond ring that I didn’t think was big enough at the time.
“And so I had an exact replica of it made with a larger diamond, the center diamond, and I never told him. So I was wearing it and he saw it sparkling and said, ‘Didn’t I do it right?’, it was like, ‘No, I did!’