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Smartphones is an outstanding scientific invention and this magical device is an integral part of our daily life. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic occurred in a time of this scientific progress and global digitalization; where smart phones become ubiquitous in our lives from education to clinical consultation. It helps us to stay connected with our family, friends, loved ones and society as well in variety of ways including: calling, Text/Messages, E-mail, video calling, public or social media. The various applications and components on a handset including gaming, social networking, electronic mailing, online payment, barcode scanning, calculators, weather report, text messages, Bluetooth, camera, MMS messaging, MP3 player and GPS have made users more and more tech informative. Offering an immense advantage to the public including learners, it has also spread its negative effects. There are some social, psychological and health effects of mobile phone users. The higher rates of mobile application usage by teachers and students significantly affected the self-regulation of behaviour, imposed negative aspects on meta-cognation and cognitive learning. This paper tries to explore impact of smart phone usage in learning and its effect among students as well. Moreover, it will look in the social, physiological, psychological, environmental effects among the students and describes strategies to be adopted to manage this.