Ok , the whole point of that question about the phone is to try to see where YOU think reality is ...
and it would seem that you think reality is external to you ... this means that when you change your point of view you shouuld not be shocked that you seem to see something different ...perception and POV plays tricks
simple example ..look at your hand , then look at a x-ray of a hand ..both are real perceptions of the same thing , both are true and real .. but you see , or do not see differnt things .. yet reality is still the same .. just as if you look at the QM level of perception and at the eyeball level .. nothing changes both are reality both are equally valid .. you still interact in the same way ...
if you eyes saw everything at the QM level the cat you look at would still go meow and drink milk ...
if you stand a mile away and look at the cat with a classic eye then the cat is reduced to a featurelss dot of , for example , black ....it still goes meow and drinks milk
reality does not care how you percive it .. there is a good reason why we dont see at the QM level .. it make shoe laces hard to tie ...just as if we saw things as x-rays ... we see in the best way to allow us to interact with reality ..what we SEE is just a shorthand for reality that helps us live with in reality ....
Now if you had answered the phone question differently we could have talked about how reality is all internal and nothing is ... but you didnt .. so ....