Way too much phone action now during chatting

I have no mods or CC in my game and noticed an increase in phone action as soon as I'd downloaded the new update. My active sim was constantly playing on his phone whilst walking along. And when he tried to talk to another of my Sims, who turned up at the same karaoke bar, that sim was also constantly texting and even had a rather angry phone call during the attempted conversation (which was actually quite funny. Wonder who he was arguing with?).

I'm hoping this excessive phone use doesn't become a regular occurrence in the game because that will be annoying.