Purpose – The main purpose of this study is to determine the antecedent factors of smart government serviceapps intention and its impact on actual use by extending the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology(UTAUT) in the Jordanian context.Design/methodology/approach – To achieve the main purpose, a quantitative method was used to testcollected data, and hypotheses testing through using statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) and smartpartial least squares software.Findings – The findings indicate that social media advertising has a positive effect on both social influence andpeer influence. Furthermore, it demonstrated a significant effect of social influence on performance expectancy. Inaddition, there is a direct correlation between the government capacity, effort expectancy, facilitating conditionsand the intention to use e-government services. Lastly, the resultsmainly show that the actual use of e-governmentservices is significantly and positively influenced by intention and self-isolation. Next, as expected, self-isolationmoderated the relationship between intention to use and actual use of e-government services via the Sanadapplication, and hence the related hypothesis was supported.Originality/value – This study provides practical recommendations for the policy-makers in the Jordaniane-government and Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship (MoDEE) in Jordan.