Driving.
No morning is worth this. Nothing in NOT YET is ever urgent enough to touch at the wheel.
The rule waits. Obviously it waits.
If your apps are locked and you are driving, the answer is that they stay locked. You do not need to finish steps, find a tag, reach a destination or clear a notification. A locked phone in a moving car is the app working exactly as intended.
Nothing NOT YET shows you is time-critical. There is no penalty that arrives faster than you can pull over.
Never at the wheel
Do not interact with NOT YET while driving, riding, or in any situation where handling your phone would be unsafe. That includes checking step progress, tapping a tag, confirming a task, dismissing an alarm, or using the Emergency Override. All of it waits.
Challenges and the car
Steps, Push: these need you out of the vehicle. Nothing about them can or should be attempted while driving.
Tap: put your tag somewhere you stand, not somewhere you park. A tag on a dashboard or a steering wheel is a bad idea, and we would rather say so plainly than let anyone work it out the hard way.
Go, Touch Grass: a boundary or arrival check happens on its own, on your phone, while the phone sits in your pocket or a mount. It never needs a tap, a look or a decision from you mid-journey. Do not chase an arrival check, re-route, or stop somewhere unsafe to satisfy one. If you arrive and it has not registered, deal with it when the engine is off.
Show Up: verification happens at the venue, on foot. Never from a driver's seat.
The Wake Alarm
Complete your Proof of Awake before you go anywhere. Do not leave an unfinished wake routine running into a journey, and never attempt steps or a tag tap once you are driving.
The Wake Alarm is not a safety-critical alarm. If you are driving somewhere that genuinely matters — an early flight, a long shift, anything where oversleeping is dangerous — keep a second, ordinary alarm.
Emergency access, always
Phone calls, Messages, Maps and Find My are never restricted by NOT YET, on any rule, at any time. Navigation and emergency calling keep working while your social apps are shut. If you ever need something we did restrict, the Emergency Override is there — used when stopped, safely, not at 60mph.
Using NOT YET to keep the feed out of your car
This is the useful half. A Focus Lock window across your commute means the apps that tempt you at a red light are simply not openable. A Time rule does the same thing on a schedule. Many people set one for the drive in and the drive home, and describe the effect as the phone finally being boring.
Be clear about what that is: a window you schedule, not a car detector. NOT YET does not detect driving, connect to your vehicle, or activate automatically when you start moving. Automatic driving detection is not built and is not on the roadmap — see the roadmap page for what is.
iOS also has a built-in Driving Focus, which can turn itself on automatically. It is a good thing to use, it is Apple's rather than ours, and the two work happily alongside each other.
Passengers
If someone else is driving, ordinary use is fine. Just do not ask the driver to hold anything, look at anything, or reach for anything on your behalf.
The law
Using a hand-held phone while driving is illegal in the UK and in most territories where NOT YET is available. Nothing in this app changes that, and nothing in this app is a reason to break it.
Report a problem
If any part of NOT YET ever seems to pressure you toward using your phone while driving, that is a design fault and we want to know. Tell us — safety reports are prioritised.
Three rules involve going somewhere. None of them should involve a car.
We cannot tell whether you are driving and we do not try. There is no driving detection in this app, it is not on the roadmap, and nothing here is a substitute for Do Not Disturb While Driving — which you should turn on in iOS Settings regardless of what we do.