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Description: Smartphones are omnipresent in the daily lives of many parents and provide easy access to different kinds of resources directly in stressful situations. As such, smartphones might be valuable coping tools. In the present study, we investigate which situation-, person-, and device-specific factors impact if mothers of young children use their smartphones for stress coping and whether their phone use for coping is effective. Building on a one-week experience sampling study with over 200 mothers, we found that in stressful situations while being with their children, mothers use their smartphones mostly for emotion-focused coping aims such as self-distraction. Smartphones are also used for problem-focused coping, but this use is less prevalent. Mothers who reported a higher cognitive salience of phones used it more for coping. Physical phone salience, phone personalization, situational urgency, situational control, and situational importance did not predict phone use for coping. Phone use for coping compared to no use was related to a lower stress decrease but using positive phone content was related to an increased perceived coping efficacy. Person-specific (phone use self-regulation skills), device-specific (personalization, semantic affinity and valence of used content), and situational (urgency, importance, control) factors did not influence the relationship between phone use and coping efficacy. We suggest that future studies should focus more on momentary device-specific factors such as the content which is used.