Genuine connection/communication and deep conversation

You’d be surprised what happens if you privately ask your friends and acquaintances to stow their phones away out or at get together. You can figure out how to do it politely for each person in your circle.
It does sadden me when I go into a restaurant on a busy night and it’s really not that noisy. People everywhere looking at phones, tables of two to more, all head down and fingering away.