Hey Siri, Accept This Privacy Policy at 65 MPH
- 21 Feb, 2026
Asked Siri to play a song through CarPlay the other day. She told me she couldn’t play any music until I accepted a new privacy policy.
Cool. I’m driving.
I can’t read and accept a privacy policy at 65 mph. And Apple — a company that literally built CarPlay — should know that.
The fix is so straightforward it hurts: give users a grace period. Let them use the app a few more times, show a gentle reminder, and require acceptance when they’re NOT behind the wheel.
This is a basic UX principle: design for the context your user is actually in, not the one you assumed they’d be in.
Edge case? Sure. But edge cases while driving are safety cases. And “we didn’t think about it” isn’t an excuse from the company that invented the Human Interface Guidelines.
Your users aren’t always sitting on a couch with perfect attention. Design like you know that.
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