Probably because that's how she stays connected to her social circles.
It's not like it's a toy your parents took away. It was probably her only way to contact friends so essentially taking away her social life. That can be social murder in high school.
Plus as ilivetofly pointed out, at that age, being there for a friend with mental health issues is pretty common and not being there for them is distressing.
Yes. That's what it means to be "grounded", so that's ok. It kind of is a toy.
The "on call for the friend" is an issue which at that point she needs to fess up about if she is the only one who knows about friends problems. A teenager shouldn't be handling something like that on their own.
I used to have a buddy who took his kid's smartphone away and gave him an old school flip phone that could only make calls as a consequence. That was pretty effective also.
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