A guide, not an autopilot.
You keep the things you do often as routines. When it is time, the app walks you through one step at a time, does the parts it can, and waits for you on the rest.
- 1Write down how you do it, once.
A routine is a short list of steps: water, three minutes of moving, the one thing today is about. Start from one of 47 ready-made ones, type your own, or describe it in a sentence and let a model write it for you to look over.
- 2Start it, or let it start itself.
Press Start. Or give it a trigger: a time, arriving somewhere, a Focus, a workout, a shortcut, and on iOS 27 another app's notification. Each time through is a run.
- 3One step in hand.
The run shows the step you are on and nothing else. Next moves on. Not now puts it off without losing it. Where a step has a timer, the timer counts, so you can put the phone down.
- 4It does the parts it can.
A step can run a shortcut, set a Home scene, log to Health, ring an alarm or call a webhook. Where you set it to, it waits for your press first.
- 5It finds you where you are.
The step is on the Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island and on your Apple Watch, with its buttons. The Action button and Siri move it on too. The phone can stay in your pocket.
- 6The next run goes better.
Change something during a run and it is marked. Afterwards, Keep carries it into the routine for next time; Only here leaves it with today. Run by run, the routine becomes how you actually do it.
Nothing to sign up for
No account, no ads, no tracking. Your routines and runs live on your phone, and on your other devices through your own iCloud if you turn it on.
Nothing is lost
Not now puts a step off, it does not drop it. A paused run picks up where it stopped. Deleted things wait 30 days in Recently Deleted.
You stay in charge
It never decides what your day is for. It holds the order and the timing, and you make the calls.
Try one.
Pick a routine that matches your morning or your work, and run it once.
The details are in Help, and the thinking behind it is in Methodology.