Well, for multi-day outings such as deer hunting, I do take a cell phone, but it stays in camp. It’s just for a daily check-in. For day hikes or bird hunting I leave the thing home. My wife knows the general area I’m in if I don’t get home by dark.
I haven’t done any longer backpacking trips in quite a while now. Maybe these days I’d take the phone if I were traveling alone, or maybe not.
I generally hike the dog daily in the local NF.
We usually hike where there is cell signal [5G is NOT gonna help me in the currently dark stretches] so I can listen to talk radio as we move along [plenty to see there].