Overview
- Performing to about 70,000 at Sydney's Accor Stadium on Feb. 14, Sheeran described powering on the device as a 'time machine' that sparked his track 'Old Phone' from his 2025 album Play.
- He said legal discovery in the 2015 lawsuit required him to hand over electronic devices so investigators could review messages and files.
- Sheeran told fans he stopped using a mobile after his 2015 Australian tour and has relied on email since then.
- Turning the phone back on surfaced texts dating to 2007, including messages from friends who had died and relatives he had not spoken to for years.
- He opened the Sydney leg of his Loop Tour with a hits-filled set and is slated for two more Sydney dates before continuing to Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide.