Expression: "phone in"

[Phoo]

"He's just phoning it in."

Could this mean "He doesn't care about it."?

[Alan]

Hi Phoo,

This is difficult to explain without knowing the context. To me it means simply that he is sending it (information/news/messages) to someone at the moment by phone/ or he is only sending it by phone and not perhaps by post or other means. Whether he cares or not, is impossible to say.

Alan
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[Phoo]

Thank you, Alan. It helped.