More and more events are having attendees turn over their phones before entering the venues. (Photo: Getty)
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You could say that there’s been pretty good reception for phone-free events over the past two years. In fact, data from Eventbrite, a ticketing and event management platform. even showed a 567 percent increase in such events around the world from 2024 to 2025. And, yes, there was a 6-7 in there.
But this phone-free trend has been far from non-sensical and actually seems to be a…

