“…Students use mobile phones for various purposes. They also use it for voice calls, text, voice messages, playing games (Lee et al, 2014), group chatting, music, movie (Anshari et al, 2016; Basu et al, 2018; Lee et al, 2014), internet browsing (Rezaei et al, 2016), online shopping, payments (Tak & Panwar, 2017), photography, and videography (Anshari et al, 2016; Woodcock et al, 2012), social networking via Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram (Basu et al, 2018), health & physical activities (Middelweerd et al, 2015) and also for mutual learning (Al‐Emran et al, 2021). Possession of a mobile phone also provides students a sense of security as well as a tool to manage time, build relationships and social networks (Kim et al, 2016; Li & Lin, 2018).…”