Waze Navigation & Live Traffic App Reviews

VERSION
4.101
SCORE
4.8
TOTAL RATINGS
2,995,545
PRICE
Free

Waze Navigation & Live Traffic App Description & Overview

What is waze navigation & live traffic app? Waze is a community driven navigation app that helps millions of users get to where they’re going through real-time road alerts and an up-to-the-moment map. Thanks to our network of drivers, Waze saves you time by instantly alerting you to traffic, construction, crashes, police and more. From traffic-avoiding reroutes, real-time safety updates and low gas price alerts, Waze is a community of drivers helping other drivers.

With Waze you…

Get there faster: traffic-avoiding route updates
Avoid tickets: know where police, speedcams and redlight cams are located
More accurate ETAs: based on live traffic, construction, weather and more
Community-based navigation: real-time updates from other drivers
Save money: find the cheapest gas along your route
Avoid tolls: see toll pricing when you choose a route
Use Apple CarPlay: sync Waze to your car’s built-in display
Live Speedometer: get alerts when you’re speeding and avoid costly tickets
Customize your drive: get directions from your favorite celebs and characters
No app switching: use your favorite audio apps right from Waze

Drive safer and smarter, with Waze!

You can manage your in-app Waze Privacy Settings at any time. Learn more about the Waze privacy policy here, www.waze.com/legal/privacy.

Waze directions are not intended for emergency or oversized vehicles.

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App Name Waze Navigation & Live Traffic
Category Navigation
Published
Updated 29 January 2024, Monday
File Size 187.57 MB

Waze Navigation & Live Traffic Comments & Reviews 2024

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Very useful app my favorite one!. This app is by far my favorite I have used every other one you can think of! Where to start? Well it’s like Google maps with the way it looks so helps you in big cities except waze will not tell you to switch lanes at the last second! It also reports things such as car crash, stopped cars on side of the road traffic and all you can think of that’s stopping you from carrying on your way! I gave this app a 5 star because with all that being said it lets you know stuff ahead of time where you’re not stuck looking at your phone thinking it’s going to pass to quick to see very accurate on there accidents and stopped vehicles and only app I used that will let you play music and still see your maps and not interrupt/stop playing music this app is overall very helpful for those who want more then just a basic gps system it can also help guide you out of a closed road way ahead and switch it to the most similar way around that closing so you won’t get stuck I hope this app doesn’t change and if so all I see is more progress that will just get better and better keep doing an amazing job Waze very happy using your guys app keep it up!

Not good (especially with Apple Car Play) but has potential. I’ve been using Waze For carpooling since September (four months now) primarily as a driver. I am glad it’s been launched and I have some constructive feedback. The app has changed and is not working well with Apple Car Play. It will not allow me to access messaging feature while when I arrive at the pick up point and I cannot end the carpool for several minutes until I exit the car thus making the whole process a nuisance rather than a seamless experience. The carpool features should be available on Apple Car Play. Additionally, 1) there are way too many buttons to push as a driver, thus causing significant distraction in the process; 2) the fact that there are two apps (driver and rider) is significantly confusing to me and everyone whom I’ve ridden with; 3) the app’s design to protect privacy is the rider makes pick-up locations that are totally illogical and make no sense (like the middle of a freeway, just as an example); 4) the app biases their rider, rather than an equal approach for both rider and driver (if the rider sets a time, the driver cannot suggest an alternate) so there should be a reschedule button; 5) the app is simply NOT elegant and modern looking, it is clunky and the buttons to move between screens are hard to tap because they are so small. Other than these issues, it’s a valiant effort and I applaud the Waze and Goggle teams for trying to crack this nut. It is something the world needs.

Needs Some Improvement. I will preface my review with the fact that I use Waze the majority of the time when traveling to somewhere new, or when I need to gauge when to leave. One major glaring issue...when you receive a phone call on an iPhone, it switches to the phone app but doesn’t switch back to Waze at any point. This issue makes the screen timeout and the navigation display turn off. This can definitely cause an issue when you’re traveling at highway speeds and have to hold your phone in front of your face to get it to turn back on. Another common issue I’ve found, it doesn’t automatically choose the best route. The algorithms used seem to skew in favor of highways. I know you can choose the option to avoid highways, but it’s the traffic I want to avoid not the highways. The majority of the time I use the app, I’m constantly pulling up routes to change it to a more favorable option. Case-in-point, I was traveling to an appt on Tue and Waze showed an arrival time of 5:21p. While I was driving I kept checking routes and ended up changing to one halfway through that got me to my destination at 5:06p. Pretty sure that since the app is running on AI, it should be better at choosing a more efficient route while in transit, rather than having to constantly change it myself.

Awesome, but latest rev draining battery!. Love this app and use it all the time. Routing seems to favor getting to bigger roads rather than using local roads for short trips, but otherwise works decently to get around traffic. One thing to watch for is I think it treats a right turn the same as a left in traffic, when often a left is nearly impossible to cross 2+ lanes of traffic rather than just entering 1 lane. Rel 4.46.1 is having a crash issue — after 30-90 mins it’s crashing. Also seems like it’s failing to add some previous drives to the history. Had one drive that was done and I’d arrived but when i went to history to go there again, I had to re-enter the address because it was not in history. Also, it's damned annoying that I registered with my cell# years ago but replaced my phone a while back and had to rebuild the keychain and I didnt remember my password. Unlike 8million other apps that have a forgot password function, WAZE says it's impossible to recover my password without having already registered with my email. A) that's stupid! B) tell me that when I registered years ago not when it's too late! I lost wazer royalty status and havent even bothered to re-register out of bitterness! Serioisly, guys, you have my phone#! Text me with a password reset link! It's not like there are bank accounts at stake here!!!

Vacation Travel SOS. Due to a Cat 5 Hurricane Irma and Cat 4 Jose which caused destruction and total havoc in the Caribbean our well-planned trip to Grenada (a year in the making) was cancelled after 3 hrs. of wishful thinking and 2 wks. of monitoring NOAA and the weather channel several times a day. With our flight cancelled and at JFK hrs from home we decided to just turn in our tickets for an impromptu trip to San Francisco which was on our bucket list. We flew in without any preparation more than finding a last minute deal on a downtown hotel for 2 nites. We rented a car once we spent a couple of days in San Francisco. If not for my WAZ app we would not have been able to do half of what we did! It got us to our 2nd location a rental outside of San Francisco and on time! It took us to Big Sur via Rte 1, all around Napa Valley, and adventures that took us to views of the Golden Gate Bridge that only locals get to see. With the app we were able to find our way to impromptu routes that took us 2500 ft to an observation tower that blew our minds. The app regularly saved us from excruciating California traffic jams by re-routing us and is amazingly good at time estimations. We are most appreciative for this app. Thank you for helping us explore gorgeous Northern California.

Annoying additions. Overall, a good app; however, lately advertising symbols continue to populate the map. Driving past an area that has a lot of fast food places will populate the map with advertisers such that it actually crowds the map. Like ai need more ads. It just makes the map look way too busy when you’re trying to glance over to check out where you are in your route. Additionally, and just as annoying is that they have added your speed to the map which turns red even if you’re exceeding the speed limit by 1mph. If that’s not already enough to annoy someone, every few seconds a large red speed limit flashes alerting the driver they are exceeding the speed limit. It’s completely annoying! There are few if any drivers on my commute that adhere to the speed limit and doing so may put you at risk of getting rear ended considering most are driving at least 15mph over. The point being is that this sign flashes continuously every few seconds during one’s commute and is annoying especially seeing it for well over an hour every day. I don’t need this app to be a babysitter alerting me constantly that I’m exceeding the speed limit. I am considering switching back to Google maps.

Better than most. I’ve just begun to use the app. I like the fact that it alerts you when the police are near. It also notifies you if a car is on the shoulder of the road stopped. It has a background music feature which would be nicer if it included Apple Music or Pandora. The app warns about road work, traffic jams, it is nice. It is slow to sync with Bluetooth. I can sync my phone with my truck, yet the app does not speak through the Bluetooth connection. It is difficult to communicate while I’m giving and address for directions the first time. It is hard to hear because it will not use the iPhone speaker in the beginning either. I have to hold it up to my ear while giving the first address. Shortly after the first route begins it will use the Bluetooth connection. The graphics are much better than the iOS app and also Google Maps. The screen view is also better than other apps. Seems more intuitive than either of those GPS apps also. The app is slow to turn off the location services on my iPhone after I reached the destination. This concerns me that it might run down the iPhone battery prematurely. It does have a nice parking feature to locate your car later. Fix a couple of small things and it gets 5 stars from me. This is my new GPS app.

Battery drain, several issues. The battery drain when I use Waze is unreal. I was at 43%, opened Waze & drove for about 12 minutes, decided to add a stop. I looked at my screen and the low battery 20% alert was up!! All of my background apps were closed, and there was no reason for my battery to plummet that quickly. Sometimes my app won’t show my icon but shows the “shadow” of where it’s supposed to be. Another issue is that it doesn’t show all routes. I know a certain route isn’t normally the fastest, but I also know my city’s traffic patterns and it won’t show it. Also, I’m in the top 1%, but how do I know when I’m getting close to losing that prestige? How do I see if the population is catching up to me? Finally, the fact that it doesn’t tell you whether your destination is on the left or right is so irritating and basic that I’m shocked it’s not a feature. I wish there was a feature where you could customize which “hazards” to voice prompt. For example, I couldn’t care less about a car on the shoulder ahead, and it’s annoying to have my music interrupted by that stupid hazard alert. But I would want to know if there’s a pothole ahead, an object in the road, or a police reported ahead. Create a way to narrow down the voice prompts! Why do the other Waze avatar icons around me never move? Speaking of Waze “people” icons, please come out with more options!

Was GREAT....Now it doesn’t work 😖. I had been using Waze for about a year and LOVED IT!! But since the most recent IOS update, it continually is “searching for GPS” and looking for language (I still speak English 😉). I went to my cellphone provider, then Apple, and logged off of Waze to see if the app would reset itself and be fixed. This didn’t work. I even did a total reset of my phone, and nothing worked on Waze and Google (who owns Waze). I then contacted Waze, but got nothing but constant/obvious automated answers back that stated things to do that I already started I HAD ALREADY DONE and listed in my email. This is upsetting since other competing GPS apps work on my phone, so it’s not anything on my end. After a couple of weeks, I did a web search to see if others had issues or could help me. Interestingly enough, I found out I am in good company, sadly. Please Waze/Google, it would be greatly appreciated if you could actually get this obvious bug fixed. Your app was wonderful, but I’m sadly happy to switch to another app to at least get me to places. No, the other apps don't have the accident, police, or other very helpful perks. I just can’t stand diving “approximately” or now the map keeps me at the beginning location and has no idea that I have already driven and arrived at my destination. Beyond frustrating. Again, please send out a fix! 🔨

Usually really great and reliable for quick routes. We love Waze for travel, and generally trust it over any other mapping app. One comment and a feature request: first, Waze seems to default to interstate-centric routes, even when there are other routes on two lane divides highways which are much shorter and also faster. These routes do not appear in the route options. For example, traveling from a very small town in IL, let’s pick St. Augustine in Knox County, to Plano, TX, recently yielded two routes using Waze; both routes were via I-74 to I-55, which is ~100 miles longer than following Hwy 116 to 67 and on to the CKC expressway (110) through Hannibal. This is the route that should be chosen for this example trip, with the exception of major construction or an accident that would increase travel time by more than 2 hours. Secondly, the feature request: I use Waze on my CarPlay app while driving and always report road hazards and cars pulled over. It would be helpful (and safer for me as a driver) to be able to report a driver pulled over on the side of the road with a one click action, like is available when reporting police. As it stands, one needs to click through 3 screens to report a pulled over car. Please make this a one-click action so I can help other drivers AND concentrate on the road!

Needs Improvement. CarPlay support needs attention. The dictation of destinations is flat out broken. If I’m playing music or podcasts in Overcast, it won’t even pause it when listening for the voice dictation. Even worse, even if no audio is playing, the app says it’s “listening” but catches nothing. The feature is useless. Reporting stuff takes too many taps. There are basically 2 things that get reported 99% of the time - police and car stopped on shoulder. Why can the police report be done in 2 taps while the stopped car takes like 4? Why does it take the same amount of taps as roadkill? Siri Shortcuts integration is BADLY needed. It’s the best way to gain back some functionality since you can’t set default map apps in iOS. “Hey Siri, Waze to mom’s house”. PLEASE!! Turn tracking. When I come to a turn, please just assume I’m making the turn and rotate the map when I get to the intersection. I know the GPS needs some time to verify that I’ve actually made the turn, but waiting 3-4 seconds for the map to recognize that I’ve made a turn is bothersome and sometimes very annoying if I need to make multiple turns in quick succession. If the app would just assume the turn is going to be made and preemptively rotate the map, that would be awesome. (Like the native Apple Maps does it)

Outstanding app "Don't leave home without it". I have pretty much switched to using Waze exclusively for my navigating needs. Even though my new Toyota has a nav system I prefer to use Waze. Better routes and with Wazers keeping it current you rarely are caught in a huge traffic jam. A couple of notes after a year or two. Waze has changed and gotten a little buggy. Still use it but since the last update it crashes all the time. I will be driving and look up to see Waze has crashed. Have to pull over and restart nav. Also now has “false starts “. It will come up but isn’t functional. It has to shut down, swiped from background and restarted. What it really needs is a pause button for temporary stops. The app still crashes after the first 3 words of the next instruction. Very annoying when in heavy, unfamiliar traffic. Sometimes just keeps crashing after restart. The worst is now the sloppy handling of Bluetooth with hearing aides. I would think they would be more respectful of those of us with disabilities. After giving a direction over the car radio it disconnects from the car and keeps the empty Bluetooth carrier active. This connects to my hearing aides effectively turning them off. Just what you need is to be mostly deaf in traffic thanks to your Nav program. They need to address how they handle Bluetooth. The cheapest bidder isn’t the best.

Stunned!!!. Huge shoutout 2 Waze & ALL Waze users in Richmond VA (and all tri-cities) 4 how live this app truly is. TBH I had my doubts! But you have definitely made me a believer of the amazing accuracy! Each time I’ve used waze & there’s an alert of police, debris on road, & car on shoulder etc...it was at a💯! So I 👏🏼 U & All the Waze users! I ❤️@waze & will recommend 2 everyone! I will most definitely consider giving waze 5/5 stars ⭐️ if you guys would take all the users suggestions that I’ve come across & actually make it happen in a more timely manner. I also have a suggestion myself. CAN YOU PLEASE ADD more options on vehicles to choose from (or be able to change the color of the vehicle by being able to hold the vehicle down and choose a different color) on the navigation map? Also, make the vehicles you have available actually look like the description of that vehicle? For example: The SUV looks like a dump truck, the bus...well there should possibly be two types of buses (make them both longer & make one yellow), and as I’d stated before have different color & size options for the cars, & make one for an actual SUV with different colors. I really hope you’ll make these changes. Once you do, I’ll be more than happy to give you a 5/5.

I love Waze!!. I really like this navigator! He is very handsome and cute! Convenient functionality with the calculation of the departure time, and other functions with the setting of the path. I also really like to see other users on the map, it gives the impression of a large and friendly community. I also want to separately note the funny voice-overs of the navigator. They are very cool! Add more of them and don't delete the old ones! Now to the remarks. 1. Make the interface more interactive. Add pictures to the speaker's voice menu, and redo the search for alres and establishments in general. If you don't live in the city for a long time, it's hard to determine from the full-screen list of addresses which place you need to choose. Make a small sheet with a view of the map. 2. Add more functionality for electric vehicles. Namely, give the opportunity to plot the most effective route according to the criterion of the maximum speed of the road. The avoid freeways feature does some of this work, but it doesn't do it quite effectively. 3. It would be great if Waze consumed less phone resources and would not heat it up so much. And so Waze is my only navigator that I use every day.

Not maintaining media selection and location at start up in CarPlay. I love Waze in its overall functionality, but it has gained a couple irritating issues over the last few updates. As CarPlay activates in my car, or any car for that matter, after I’ve used Waze as my last app, when Waze initializes it automatically starts playing from my phones media library. It doesn’t allow the current media selection to continue, including the radio. It’s the only app that has constantly done this for the last couple of months. All other non-music apps don’t interfere with what media is selected. I have to manually go and select that media source again and then come back to Waze. If I have another app going like Google maps, this doesn’t occur but when I select Waze it always does this. Also, Waze in CarPlay has trouble finding my location upon initiating. I have to go onto my phone and open the Waze app itself and then close it out in the task manager. Then, when I select it in CarPlay it works fine. Lastly, the speedometer now—just barely—partially shows at of the the top left corner of the display in CarPlay. Cannot not been seen usefully. I’ve got as far as uninstalling the app, then reinstalling it and signing back in and it still does all of these.

Hate to delete this navigation app. But for a long time now, probably almost 2 years (I know, I’m faithful). I’ve realized this thing eats up SO much data. I run out of 2 gigs in less than a week on long drives. I love everything about it (especially hazardous objects on road and police), but it’s missing an important feature I’ve secretly been waiting for that google maps has and that’s the whole standby screen to save battery and phone from heating up. Many times Waze redirects me from traffic which was cool, but then I realized after a couple times, I actually lost time AND gas because of it due to stops and whatnot instead of just sitting in traffic. Not that it hasn’t helped at other times, but I’ve learned that most of the time the traffic it predicts has long dissipated (so much for “live”. Overall, it’s just been getting worse and I’ve thought to delete this app a long time ago if it weren’t for the social part, but then I realized all my friends haven’t touched it in forever and I only use it to share with my wife who doesn’t even realize I send her ETAs anyways till I’m already there and she calls me to ask me if I’ve arrived lol. It’s been Waze, but ultimately, my data is more important to me than the 80% ghost police notifications and my safe speed limit travels.

Useful but NOT safe. I like Waze for navigation; it has some good aspects over other map apps-I like that based on the day and time that I open the app it predicts where I might be going, I like that it chooses the shortest route and is always right regarding my ETA, I like that I can send my ETA to any of my contacts so they know when to expect me, and I like that if I try to access the search function while in motion it says this is unsafe and asks if I am the passenger. I DON’T like that all other uses of the app while in motion are extremely unsafe. To document police, accident, stalled car, road closure, etc I have to take my eyes off the road to navigate through all the prompts which is exactly like texting and driving, I DON’T like that there are ads that pop up anytime I am going less than 5mph-my husband has them pop at highway speeds! We need a paid version of the app!! Also, the see other people on the road function does not work well. There are many times I see other icons when there isn’t even another car around or my husband is using the app in his car ahead of me but I don’t see his icon. Also, beeps are not useful. Not only is it unsafe to get in and access the beep function, it serves no purpose. Once you accept them there is no history and no way to tell who beeped you. Like I said, I like the app for overall navigation and real-time ETA, but otherwise it needs some serious updates.

LOVE IT!!!!. This is THE most accurate GPS system I’ve ever used. I have never been steered wrong w/WAZE or down a street that’s closed or non-existent. Plus, another beauty with them is that they automatically update road changes, streets or maps, so YOU don’t have to worry about doing it yourself right before heading out the door!!! All you do is turn it on and go!!! I also absolutely love the “heads-up” notifications I get when driving (i.e. police ahead, road delays, accidents, etc.) and the continual notifications of when you’re getting close to having to take a turn down a street or close to taking an exit. I can’t even begin to count, how many times I have gotten so incredibly frustrated, when using other mapping systems, receiving late notifications (like 15 seconds beforehand ) of when you had to take a turn but then miss the street or miss the exit and then having to travel beyond your destination, in order to make a U-turn back or take a different exit, in order to back track around and get back on route .. ugghh 😖🤬. NO more of THAT nonsense w/WAZE!!!! Thank You!!! 🙏🏽 Keep up the good work - you definitely have a happy customer with me. 😃

No customer support at all. Customer support is an automated email feeling you to refer to the troubleshoot section. A section that I have read so often looking for me resolution, that I have now memorized it! Simple issue - I lost my password. Password reset help allows me to put in my email address. But I do not receive any email to reset the password (tried numerous times). So now I think that I may never have registered my email on Waze. And my only option is try to create a whole new profile. When creating a new profile, I want to register my email (which I don’t think I did in the initial profile since I am not getting the password reset email etc). When I try to register my email in the NEW profile I created, Waze won’t allow it and says ‘email already exists’. So if the email already exists, why doesn’t Waze send me the email to reset my password on the old account to which I lost the password? IF MY EMAIL IS ALREADY REGISTERED WITH WAZE, WHY WON’T WAZE SEND ME A RESET PASSWORD EMAIL? OR ALLOW ME TO SET UP A NEW ACCOUNT. I have only one email address!!! If it is in use on the old account that I locked myself out of, either allow me to reset the old account or allow me to set up my new account with my email address. Simple!! Why is it so difficult?

WAZE is my road buddy.. I really like the WAZE app. I use it all the time. It is great for turn by turn audio directions that keeps me hands free. The learning curve is fairly easy and the app features and interface have been consistent which is great because having to learn new and improved stuff while actually driving isn’t the best. I frequently drive up and down the whole west coast and WAZE is a lifesaver for re-routing around traffic jams and knowing what the speed limit is in an area as they seem to change a lot. ** The reporting system could be streamlined a little to make it easier to report the most common incidents on the home screen and the detailed hazard reports do not allow for some common issues: people on side of road, weather issues that impact safety/visibility like severe rain/lightning/ road ice and to easily report changes in speed limit signs. It would also be nice to be able to mark a hazard location when “out of signal” that would pop up when reconnected. **We really enjoy the occasional “guest” reporting voices ( Star Wars, Cars, Coke Santa) it would be fun to do the same and have some seasonal options with the Wazer profile avatars too! Overall WAZE is my road buddy and is my go to app. for driving directions.

The coolest App to discover a stocker who is tapped into you by staying close. I love this app simply because of his style and I like way to look at our worsening traffic situation all across or length it's no longer our grandparents freeway gone are the days of leisurely drive and pleasant afternoon behind the wheel now driving Siri is business and not to be left that at all so Waze shows it other ways to use this app Multi platform use an informational stack to assist with around you at all times need to come to that oh my by that I mean the dreaded stocker the one who just won't leave you alone and must bother you in any which way they can interesting that avatars have now become avatars maybe that's a new word car the tatf. but for later next line recently I've had that displeasure of finding that I to warrant a sucker and I only found out because Waze showed me that my stocker was never far behind have a virgin ever prime ever trying to communicate the Daniel benign idiocy of their plate In stocking me it showed me how to stock them and soon as you might imagine the police were involved and well wouldn't you know it my stocker became a shocker who ended up in the slammer known as the locker and there you have it my happy story brought to you by the way thank you Stucker free

Great app but has definite shortcomings.. Waze is my #1 choice for GPS. Live traffic updates, being able to edit traffic conditions on the fly to give a more accurate commute, and sharing routes and eta’s are great features. I do hope they integrate voice commands with Siri so we can say things like “Hey Waze, drop a stopped vehicle pin.” While we are driving so interaction becomes handsfree and safer. I gave 3 stars because there have been repeated issues with the app and service saying “No GPS available.” I have tried rebooting, deleting & reinstalling, and clearing the app cache on my phone as well as making sure iOS and the app are updated constantly. But the occurrence does not appear to be linked to hardware failure unless it is something inherent to the 8s. Google and Apple maps do not have any issues when this occurs so I’m at a loss as to what causes the issues with Waze. This occurs for about a 8-12 hours once a day, once or twice a month. Not the end of the world but heavily inconvenient when you regularly use the service for your GPS navigation (and it’s a great service) and you are on the road daily for 4-6 hours at a time it is a problem. If they could fix this problem and integrate voice commands for pin drops, this would be a hands down 5 Star app. Hopefully I’ll get some feedback and can continue to use the service.

Not very good anymore.. Every time I set a long destination (over 100 miles) it gives me the stupid... uh oh something went wrong message when attempting to set the route. It literally leaves you with no choice than to use another GPS app if you need the info, like right now, as is usually the case if you need it to actually tell you how to get somewhere. You seriously need to fix this ASAP! I’m considering deleting this app now as it has become very unreliable to me at this point. It works ok with showing road info, but I need to know how to get there when I really use this app seriously. Also, it would be nice if it told you about alternative routes that would be faster if you encounter traffic. It also doesn’t show surrounding road traffic until you get on a road and find out it was equally terrible with traffic. The surrounding traffic it does show is usually not consistent with the surrounding roads one might travel. It would be nice to know before I take an alternate route if it also has terrible traffic. This app used to be a lot better. Now it’s pretty close to being bloat-ware. I want to love this app again, but right now all I ever do with it is curse at it for being so terrible in its current state. I’ll change my review if they can fix it. Please fix this app. I used to love it, now I just can’t recommend it to anyone.

Not as good as it used to be. I used to LOVE Waze and told all my friends whenever the subject came up of what apps we use for getting directions. I used to say that it was the best app for and practically insist they’d be happier if they used Waze. I liked the fact that it kept telling me several turns that I was approaching the next turn so it was easier to follow. I found it, in many ways, easier to follow compared to other apps. But recently they changed that. If you’re on the highway it now tells you in miles or feet how long you have till your next exit. But it no longer shows you the ACTUAL EXIT NUMBER like it used to. If and when it does (usually when you’re really close to that exit) it no longer shows prominently. It’s all the way on the right corner and pretty tiny. I sit there driving cluelessly not knowing what exit I should be getting off at. I need to know the actual exit number way ahead of time so I can change lanes ahead of time. I have to keep my eyes on the phone screen instead of the road to keep watching the miles instead of searching more easily for the exit number based on the signs on the freeway. And then the exit number shows up eventually as I get closer to the exit I need to take. But again, I have to take my eyes off the road to search for the TINY exit number. Who came up with that idea and why is beyond me.

Just install and use it. Always getting better. A few improvements requested.. Great features: best routing around trouble I’ve ever seen around the most up to date traffic information possible. The audio app integration is a neat addition. I recently upgraded my phone and it uses the additional screen space effectively. Changing the voice for directions is great. Loving the validation Cookie Monster provides at my destination! Could be improved: Pandora integration makes it look like you can change stations or thumb up/down from within Waze but it doesn’t actually work. Needs to include Audible and Podcasts apps. If I take a shortcut through an alley or start out in a school parking lot, Waze seems to really lose track of where I am and is in recalculation mode for miles at best. Sometimes I have to kill it and start over to get it to tell me where to go at a critical junction. Nit pick: Routes could better predict drive times based on historical data. I drive from Illinois to Missouri in the St. Louis area every day. That means picking a bridge over the Mississippi right at the start. I-270 will always jam up in north St. Louis County after I leave my house and take 5-10 minutes longer than Waze says on a GOOD day. They aren’t all good days.

Was good, utterly worthless now. Frequently tells you to make left turns over concrete dividers. Frequently tells you that you are at your destination when there is no way in and the entrance requires multiple turns potentially a block away. If that was a stop on your way then good luck figuring out how because it just switched to your final destination. Often it does so silently so guess what you passed your stop 5 miles ago. Even if you try to prevent this by selecting a new drive instead of stop along the way to wipe all memory of any other destination from existence, it may switch to an old destination anyway. Frequently sends you to the wrong destination, sometimes miles from the correct one. Turns on toll roads at random after you’ve disabled it. Right now it made me go 10 miles out of my way to a gas station “along the way” (not an exaggeration, sent me in a 10 mile circle to a station right behind where I started). I stopped using it over 2 years ago except for finding the best gas prices. Now that it burned nearly 1/2 a gallon on that, I won’t use it for that or anything anymore either. Worse than nothing, please use anything else at all, maybe a fold up map or directions printed on paper. Used to be better. Ignore the older reviews. I wonder if Google bought Waze so they could tank their competition on purpose.

Trucking with Waze. I am a truck driver and I have used several different navigational tools throughout my years. None have been as rewarding as WAZE. This app is excellent. I am on the road almost every day of the year and this app has saved me time & money in more WAZE than one. Time is money. This is a true statement. Every trucker out there will tell you the same thing. So it pays me to use WAZE. If WAZE was to add “truck routes” as an option it would not only be excellent, it would be exceptionally excellent. It would definitely be my #1 go to app every time I was in the drivers seat. I can all but guarantee the same would be true for tens of thousands of other truck drivers as well. There are other apps for truckers that include truck routing as an option. Other than that, comparing them to the WAZE app would be like driving a brand new semi equipped with a 13 speed Eaton Fuller transmission just cruising down the highway, to driving a beat up old 18 wheeler truck without a turbo with a 75,000lb load hanging on the fifth wheel trying to reach the summit of Colorado’s Vail Pass. Thank you WAZE for being a friend out on the road when I’m away from mine at home‼️

Florence Evacuation. WAZE IS AMAZING. Thank you sooo much whoever created this APP. I am home safe because of this APP. I can not praise you enough. Hi everyone. Right now I am so thankful to be home. We evacuated to Concord and was there from Wednesday the 12th to Tuesday the 18th. We knew our home was alright but you know you need to see it for yourself. We left Concord at 10:30 yesterday morning along with our two puppies. We used our GPS on hour cars for a good ways. We ended up in SC at South of the border. This was also with the help of a police officer and a local resident. But with all of this and trying to get past the water flooding was daunting. My sisters we watching out for the whole way. One of them told use to try the app “WAZE”. I downloaded it to my iPad. I am here to tell you we would not be home today if it wasn’t for this app. It would even tell us about a vehicle parked on the side of the road a half a mile away in the dark. It is amazing. She only made two mistakes but that was because road block had just happened. I highly recommend this app. Everyone stay safe and God bless all the lineman, police, EMS, firefighters and anyone else I have not mentioned that are working so hard to keep us safe and getting our lives back to normal.

One of the best if not the best GPS apps. Basically my title summed it up. The Waze app is one of the best if not the best GPS app available to the public and amazingly free I shouldn’t of said that too loud I don’t want to give them any ideas. I just moved into a new home in a very new subdivision and ran google maps,Bing maps,maps and a couple of others none of the other GPS apps could find my new house but guess what the Waze app pinpointed it directly took me right to it! Seriously though the Waze app gives you real time information as it is occurring due to the fact it’s interactive with other users. Not only do you get directions from point a to point B Waze gives you a choice of three different routes and you choose the one you think would be best tells you the time it would take to do it how far it is tells you what obstructions you might encounter along the way. The app allows you in real time to post accident stead of just occurred where police are hidden shooting radar tells you what speed the traffic is moving in a traffic jam it’s a pretty accurate app as long as other users are updating events as they occur. To sum it Up the Waze app is outstanding

Doesn’t work well with iOS 12. Update Oct 3, 2018- We’ve been using Waze for many years and have always loved it... until iOS 12. There has been so many issues with it freezing, crashing and interfering with the built in Bluetooth in our car. It will completely cut off the Bluetooth in the car making it completely useless. We deleted the app for a while because it just didn’t work at all and redone loaded it after some updates were released after iOS 12 was out for a while and that’s when the Bluetooth issues started, needless to say we deleted it again. I’m very disappointed, we used for every drive we took, even up to the grocery store 2 miles away. As you can see below from our first review we absolutely loved it... But sadly, not so much anymore. I really hope that you’re reading these reviews and doing something to fix these issues so we can start using it again! Since Google owns Waze I Would love to see some of Google Maps functions integrated into Waze. Other than that I have no complaints except the occasional outage, but we've been using it since it came out a few years ago and have loved it from the beginning!! Keep up the good work and get some of those google map features carried over to Waze!!

Incredible resource. I am delighted by the services provided by the Waze app. On the first day I used it, it took me by previously unknown routes to a bakery to pick up a birthday treat for my dear daughter with 5 minutes to spare through rush hour traffic. The second time we used it we were at a huge airshow just outside of Portland OR and Waze saved the day by taking us back to Vancouver, WA on a very quiet and beautiful twisting country road through rolling farm land that ended up bringing us into Portland by way of the St. John's bridge. We were astonished to find that it took the same amount of time it would have taken us to go on the highway on a low traffic day. We were sold on it through these first initial encounters. BUT, my third use of it made me recognize how incredibly valuable and up to date it is it is when my destination was 2 blocks away from a bank robbery in progress and it diverted me from my normal route down narrow side streets where multitudes of cars were coming in the opposite direction but I seemed to be the only car going against the flow of traffic. Waze kept me safe and away from gunfire that was occurring just a block away from my final destination as bank robbers tried to make a getaway. Thanks Waze and thanks to all you Wazers that keep this app up to date so consistently. You rock!!!

Good at knowing where traffic is AWFUL at getting around it. You wanna know where traffic is jammed? This app is wonderful for that. Want a route around? Avoid Waze. This app is useful for for ETA’s if you sync with your calendar, and to show you where traffic jams are. However, expect it to always take you through traffic jams. The most use I’ve gotten out of this app this app during traffic hours (aka the time you would most want to use this app) is zooming out to see the full map and then seeing myself how to get around the jam. Without fail, if I’m trying to get home from work, Waze will want me to take a Street that I know for a fact will be jammed. I decided to follow the directions twice thinking maybe Waze was smart than I am and knew something I didn’t. Both times I was backed up a solid mile before where Waze thought the real jam started it. And I’m talking I was in bumper to bumper traffic waiting for the light to turn 3 times before I got past a single block. Despite this, Waze insists this is the fastest route — it’s not. Waze also becomes unresponsive to traffic reports during peak hours it seems. You could report bumper to bumper traffic in a downtown street and Waze will only mark the small section where you are even if the jam stretches 10 minutes in front of you. You would think it would gather that you’re in a bad jam and find a different route, but it doesn’t. Your best bet is to zoom out the map, and try to find a better way yourself.

I don’t understand the hype.... I’ve been using Waze consistently for about a week and a half. I’ve always used Google Maps, but heard a lot of hype about Waze and thought I would give it a try. Each time I used it, I would plug the same address into Google Maps to compare routes and arrival times. Many times the routes were the same, and if they weren’t, Google Maps always had a faster arrival time or the quicker ability to see ETAs of other routes. Today when I left work, the ETA on Waze was about 5 minutes faster, so I decided to take that route. Google Maps added about 10 minutes to my ETA when I veered off onto the Waze path, but I thought maybe Waze had data that Google did not. It turns out they do not. I sat still in traffic for 10 minutes. Maybe other cities are more accurate, but Google Maps undoubtedly has better traffic data than Waze in the Cleveland area. I guess it is moderately helpful to see hazards on the road, but that’s pretty much the only feature that I like. Also I recently started seeing ads as I was driving? I understand that you need money from advertisers, but to darken the screen to push an ad and make me unable to see my driving route is very distracting and I’m always scrambling to get rid of it, pulling my attention from the road. Maybe have ads on startup or while users are not en route to a location. Overall, I think I’ll stick to Google Maps.

Plz. Can we please get more than 3 options of the route, or maybe a shuffle button? In terms of navigation system for the phone Waze literally outshines all the competition. But the route selection for the longer commutes in the city are not really on point compared to google and even apple maps. Since I started working on the opposite side of the city, standstill traffic became part of the routine. During rush hour waze exclusively recommends me to drive through the crowded city streets instead of taking expressways. Both options are backed up with traffic, the only difference is jams on the expressways are a lot more predictable, and faster on average. Every time I decided to take a gamble and stick to waze navigation on my way back from work I ended up regretting it. ETA shows anywhere between 1:10-1:35 but in reality takes over 2 hours. It would be impossible to make it within predicted ETA even if you run every red light, and going 60 mph in the bus lane. At the same time, whenever I ignore the suggestions and stick to expressways it shows essentially the same eta after it rerouted itself 20 times. Please, for some reason the algorithm calculates city traffic waaay too optimistically compared to expressways in NYC. Since tweaking the algorithm is a tricky process just add one more button that will allow you to see additional route selections.

Getting a creeping feeling.... I’ve used Waze for years and loved it, but I’ve started becoming suspicious of some routes it takes me. I use it just about every time I drive, even when I know where I’m going, for traffic updates, cops, etc. Lately, it seems like Waze tries to force me onto main roads when backroads are a much better option; even in the dead middle of rush hour when I’d have to make a left turn off the main road, without a signal or stop sign, against pure gridlock. Meanwhile the backroads are light with traffic at best, and much faster (and arguably safer). I’ll point out, while these backroads are residential, they aren’t neighborhood roads or anything like that at all. With all that said, I can’t help but get the impression Waze is diverting me towards companies who advertise with them. This wouldn’t bug me too terribly much if it weren’t for sending me directly into heavy traffic, even if just a quarter mile or so, when I know it’s going to take much longer to navigate through it than the couple extra minutes Waze estimates. I can’t prove it, so I’m not saying I know this to be true. What I can say is that this used to never happen, yet seems to be an ever increasing occurrence when I use Waze now. It’s starting to make me reconsider its value over Google Maps.

Avoid traffic via alternate routes. This app is great for finding alternate routes. It uses up my battery though. Please give an option to have It search for my location only when I am using the app. When I close the app, it doesn't need to keep track of where I am anymore as I am likely not driving. I find that this app gets me places more quickly while avoiding traffic. It needs a little more fine tuning, as it put me in a no outlet street very close to the back end of my destination. I had to drive away from that point and the-input the address to get to the front end, but that worked. It was beneficial that I already had a sense of what the place should look like. I like that it recognizes "streets" in some major parking lots. That was a pleasant surprise. :) I wish there were a way for it to show how much time I save by going the alternate route versus the normal highways. UPDATE & REQUEST: Yay! My battery lasts a lot longer now. Thank you for addressing this issue. It would be great if there were a button to notify others when there is a train crossing (and recommend alternate route or option to wait for train) and the same with drawbridges up (I live in a city of bridges so this is quite valuable info and is not the same as slow traffic).

Years of negative changes!. Developers seem intent on ruining what was an awesome product! As a visiting specialty nurse, the plan Drive feature was the main reason why I use the product. Hit the magnifying glass go to plan drive it was easy to get to, and set up your entire workday including your entire work week of anticipated drives. As you are on the plans Drive, if you got a phone call from the office or from the patient and family asking for changes… While you're in the plan Drive hit the magnifying glass and you can go and add and change drive. And, you could go into the plant Drive area to delete the current drive you're in central once you're there you're done with that drive. That was wonderful. For whatever reason the developers have decided to hide the plan Drive menu taking more steps to get to the plan Drive area and on top of that if you're in a planned drive, you no longer have access to that area the menu. The product is now completely unusable is like any other GPS on the market other than the fact it is way too verbose and the developers of added more features to make a before you could actually use the product. After many years of use looking for another piece of software that focuses on the user versus the programmers thinking they're wonderful coming up with ideas to make our lives miserable versus focusing on end user needs.

Good but not great.. I’ve used this app for years and hardly drive without it. It gives great directions and usually gets me where I’m going the fastest way possible. That being said it has some serious flaws. It definitely takes some time to account for traffic or an accident and bypass that route. It also doesn’t take all routes into consideration. I’ve had times where it will only give one route option when I know for a fact there are other routes I personally know. And it usually doesn’t give you routes that bypass the freeway that’s backed up unless you actually set the whole app to avoid the freeway, even if the side streets are the faster route. Also if you tell the app there is a road closure they send you messages asking about it and don’t acknowledge them on the route. But there is no way to answer the questions and if you don’t answer they consider the issue closed and don’t change the map. This has happened to me at least 8 times in the same place where there is long term construction that’s had a road closed for over a month. But the app keeps telling me to take that route even though I have documentated the road closure every time I go past it. They send a “chat” asking about it, but there is no place to respond to the message in the app. So they ignore my documentation of the road closure and keep telling people to go that way.

Love it & Hate it all at the same time.. I have been using Waze for about a month now I commute Just over 1000 miles a week. I really like that many people are out there using it and that you get vital information like a car’s coming up on the shoulder, objects in the road and where the police are camping at. The only problem I have with Waze I’d like to see some changes is that there are too many choices to make when reporting information, for example if I want to report a car on the side of the road I have to hit four different selections before my information is sent meanwhile I’m trying to look at the screen to find a small button and not paying attention to what is on the road. Reporting information needs to be simplified for the driver no more than two clicks to report a hazard something along the lines of the first click hazard second click “car on shoulder” or “car in lane” or “object in lane”. Decision making buttons need to be a little larger like when you’re confirming a hazard on the road is it still there yes or no the buttons are too small and I often miss them and not able to confirm the information information. May be a few seconds before you approach the hazard two large buttons could pop up and simply confirm yes or no is it there. I will say this I do enjoy using it and it is much better than Google maps or other navigation apps out there.

Better than the old CB days.. Waze is a user based traffic information app. It does rely upon users to report traffic conditions, construction, accidents and police. As a user passes by a reported problem, he can say Thank You, indicating the condition exists, or No longer There, indicating it has been cleared. There are two things I’d like to see changed: 1) allow the time to respond to the condition to last longer. Sometimes, the actual condition is at a slightly different place due to the time lag between where the incident is and when it was actually reported. and 2) when reporting police, it would be nice to know if the police is moving or stationary. If moving, the radius for notification should be extended and the time to clearing shortened, as a moving car will not remain in its position very long. If stationary, then notification can remain as it currently is. If police is moving, it would also be nice to know which direction and then adjust notifications accordingly. Note these are suggestions and not complaints. This is a great app and a must have for any driver. It also has a pretty good navigation system. But if you select another route than it gives you, it is slow to recalculate and sometimes requires stopping the navigation and then restarting it to get the alternate route.

Die-hard Wazer!!!. Update: Waze updates have been good and the reporting process is improved and there are less steps to get to the actual reporting - yay! When you fix the default address estimation from interstate (literally I get suggestions for MI addresses, and I live in Alexandria VA!). Previous: I've recommended this app to dozens of friends and helped many download it to their smartphones and set it up for them. I can't say however that I'm very happy about the latest version of Waze. The GUI is not what it should be, the # of improvements is about equivalent to the # of detriments. It's hard to cancel an instruction once entered, the screen going from side to side is not user friendly. And reporting hazards is STILL a 2-3 step process!!!! There should be the option for active wazers to have a "visible police" button, "car on shoulder" button "construction" button and/or various traffic buttons of our choosing on the map page that we can report as we go. Also, PLEASE STOP SEARCHING THE ENTIRE MAP OF THE USA WHEN I'M OBVIOUSLY SEARCHING FOR AN ADDRESS IN MY LOCAL VICINITY. That was an obvious upgrade improvement you guys should have included. I would give you 5 stars or 10 or 20 because I love your app - but these improvements really need to happen ASAP. Keep up he awesomeness Waze!! Plus your Customer svc and responsiveness is great too!

Sad. This used to my best way of avoiding traffic as I commute in the busy Boston area. Worked great until a little while ago when it stopped working. Now it sends me weird ways that are NOT avoiding traffic but instead turning me in to it. Ironically (or not) it seems to be pushing me lately near shops and businesses that I visit online which makes me believe that it is pointing me towards Google's sponsors and are tracking the sites I visit rather than helping me avoid traffic which was the original intended purpose. This is further cemented in my mind as the app is also showing ads for places I frequent. I'm not even one of those paranoid people who think that everyone is watching their every move. My point in this rant... Get it together Google/Waze. I loved this app once. I would even be willing to pay for the service if you got rid of the ads and got me to my destination the fastest way. Oh! And I have also proven my point by sometimes ignoring the turn you want me to make knowing there will probably be less traffic and watched my arrival time get quicker and quicker. End of rant. Five Stars again when you put the drivers first again rather than your sponsors. Edit... Now I really wish I could give 0 stars. No response from developer on this nor to my support request through the app. So... Thanks for not getting back to me and you have lost yet another user... Wake up Waze!

Hasn’t Been What It Was. I’ve been using Waze for over a decade and it has been excellent, however, over the past couple years it has shown signs of being out-innovated by competitors. Since Google bought Waze it seems like Google has been receiving a lot of information for Google Maps but Waze doesn’t get much in return. Often times I get stuck on roads that Google Maps and even Apple Maps is aware are blocked for construction. After doing a trial run of running both Apple Maps and Waze at the same time for about 10 months, Apple Maps has consistently been faster and truer to the estimated arrival time plus avoiding road blocks more than Waze at least 95% of the time. The features of Waze are still better but the routing and reporting has slacked off a bit. Even without a robust reporting system like Waze, Apple Maps has been better about routing to avoid traffic, closures, and construction as if it’s detecting it without reporting (something you’d think Waze is doing). Plus, the app itself has been degrading even with new UI updates. My Planned Drives keep automatically deleting leaving me to not leave on time by Waze notifications. Now I plan my day in Apple’s Calendar to get “Time to leave” notifications that way.

What has happened to Waze?. Waze has been my go-to nav app, especially in car play, for many years. However, it is now riddled with bugs that make it unusable for me. I even removed it and reinstalled to make sure it wasn’t an iPhone issue. The biggest problem I have is the app hanging up in CarPlay upon launch. The screen just freezes or the map doesn’t render. The only fix is to force quit the app on my phone and restart. The easier fix is to just use Apple Maps. The next, and also serious, issue is sometimes with long routes it goes into some weird teleportal mode where it just skips large sections of the route. This has happened several times on drives between SC and NY that should be 800 miles and 12:30. After letting Waze calculate the route it comes back with a route that is 500 miles and and 6 hours. It has me on the proper route but many of the usual turns are missing and it has me magically appearing close to home several hours early. Nice trick. On top of this are the occasional crashes where the app hangs or closes on its own. One last complaint is when the phone is connected to CarPlay I cannot view a Waze map on my phone. It will only show the options screen. This has been going on even after recent version updates. I have been a Waze user since the beginning and even used it over the built in Nav in my vehicles. However, I’ve now stopped using it and would not recommend it to anyone.

No longer my favorite navigation app. A few years back I would say the Waze was my favorite navigation app, but after moving to a new city that opinion has changed. After a year in the new city the deficiencies in the app have become more apparent. The routes it gives you are not the best. Almost every morning it recommends the “best” routes to work. I’m not sure what algorithm is used to determine the “best” routes, but those routes have longer ETA’s and are more arduous or complicated. Even after changing the app settings and making sure the setting to avoid tolls is off it continues to give me longer and more complicated route options. At times it doesn’t even give me other options for routes I know I can take. Following Waze at times this year has led me into horrific traffic and to be late at work. There’s also times I’ve tried to type in or choose destinations, but it routes me to a completely different destination trying to be predictive of my habits. Some of those destinations were in my previous city half way across the country that I haven’t gone to in 6-8+ months which is crazy to me. Safe to say I’ve floated back to google maps and their boring interface because Waze has become more frustrating to use.

Used to be so good. This app used to be so good but for the past few months is just not working. At this point i open it for police reports and use google maps for directions. I go fairly frequent to Las Vegas from California. Lately the directions won’t load and when I do get it to work it routs me completely out of the way!!!! Google maps tells me it’s going to take me about 4 hours with traffic and Waze is literally making me turn around/make a U on the 15 when driving from Vegas to take a completely obscure way adding 3 hours to the rout. The last straw was a few weeks ago driving from California to Las Vegas. At first it wouldn’t load so I went to the Waze support area and it advised to break down the trip in chunks so I decided to have it navigate me to the outlets in Barstow since I pass them EVERY SINGLE TIME. Somehow it took me trough a back way and trough a town name Crestline, up some mountains in the middle of no where and by the. It was pass 12am!!!! A 4 hour drive turn into an 11 hour drive!!!!!!! If anything happened I would have been royally effed in the middle of nowhere. This weekend I went back to California and decided to try again thinking it was maybe a problem that day. Once again it kept routing me trough some weird areas turning a 4 hour trip into 7. I had my girlfriend open her Waze to compare and Hers was working perfectly fine and using a complete different rout than mine was and about the same one as google maps.

Great app with big user base. The app is great, very few times do I see a cop without him being marked on the map. However that all depends on how many users are active in the area. One feature I would like to see is the ability to drop the marker down manually if you want. Or to be able to move it if it’s in an inaccurate spot. Any time you see a car on the side of the road or a cop, you’re driving. So trying to navigate the UI while driving is dangerous, but if you don’t then the marker won’t be accurate. Being able to place a “personal” marker that only you can see with 1 button press. Then afterward the user can edit that personal marker to reflect what they saw, for example a cop. This would allow the user to change the personal marker when it’s safe to do so. While also increasing the accuracy of the placement because it’s 1 button press. At the moment you need to try to press 3 or more buttons and hit send right as you’re going past them. Understand some of these users are driving big trucks, so this feature could save a life. It may even increase user interaction as I’m sure there’s a lot of people who want to mark it but don’t want to look at the phone for too long.

Shockingly dismal timing. This app has changed.. I am actually completely shocked to see that this app has a 4.8 star rating. I would have given it that when I first downloaded it a few years ago, but it has gotten increasingly worse. The navigation does not always use the voice, even though I have it selected, and mobile service is strong and I have a new iPhone. So when I’m by myself in the car, if the app stops narrating, it becomes dangerous. Also, and this has happened multiple times in the past couple of years to both myself and my sister with her two young kids, it takes me literally to the middle of nowhere and keeps telling me repeatedly to turn left. Turn right turn left turn right in an effort to find the seemingly nonexistent location. Madness!! It is also extraordinarily slow to, give verbal signals to get into a proper lane. There is also no indication, ever, as to whether the place you’re looking for, is on the right, or the left. Overall, Waze has gotten me into a lot of difficult situations, has caused me to be late, and has created issues of safety. I will not be surprised if someone chooses to sue Waze one day for such faulty navigation. My entire extended family has experienced all of this, and I have written to them about it twice now. Beware, there are very cool things about it, but do not depend on it for accuracy if you are driving in an area that you are unfamiliar with.

Don’t Leave Home Without It. This app has saved me so many times. I absolutely love it. I use it constantly, mainly because it alerts me to traffic and cops, but also because it has shown me shorter ways to places I go to all the time (and thought I knew the best route there). I only have two complaints. The map change suggestion feature is totally useless. There’s a road near me that’s a private lane and ends at one curve of an s-curve. Waze always tells me to use this road for 100 feet, then get back on the main road. No, the private lane ENDS at the main road! I’ve tried changing this a dozen times, and it never gets changed (once it was actually, but a week later it was back). I’ve learned to ignore it, but I feel sorry for tourists because they get confused (I can tell they’re using Waze when I’m behind them because they’ll slow down and sometimes stop, which is really annoying). My other complaint is that I can’t tell it to remember certain routes. From my house, there are two ways to the county road. They’re both the same distance and about the same driving time. The difference is that the one Waze always tells me to use is single lane partway, very narrow the rest of the way, and has a lot of hidden entrances and blind hills and curves. I’d much rather take the safer way. If Waze finds a way to fix these two things, I’d give it 5 stars

Most useful but some issues. It is the most useful of the navigation apps because it uses the most sources for information and does a great job helping me navigate. Directions are given in a way to help locate the turn or offramp. Other apps often change suddenly into step-by-step directions or some form that I do not want to see. Waze stays consistent in the format of the split. Waze has a number of notifications about things in the road. These are good but also have weaknesses. It is hard to report that something was not accurate. At the point it is supposed to be there the option to indicate it was incorrect goes away. This option should remain for 2 to 400 feet after the symbol location. Most hazard reports are inaccurate. Most police reports are incorrect. This is frustrating because it such a good idea but the tool doesn’t really allow for good reporting. Stopped vehicle reports do not indicate in lane or side of road so they are usually pointless viewings of vehicles stopped somewhere having no affect on traffic. There is a great feature to go later on the time this feature cannot be used for some reason I will choose directions to the airport. Half the time I can choose go later and half the time for the same trip I cannot. I know the data is there. But for some reason the feature just vanishes. Make it easier to report.

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Has waze given up?. I’ve loved, used and recommended waze for a long time now however there have been a number of bugs recently that are making the app more of a hassle then it is helpful. One of the main things that drew me to waze was being able to share my drive/route with my friends and family. I first got this app because I had just got my license and it made my mother feel more comfortable letting me go on my late night escapades as she could check on me any time. However now when I share my drive with my friends they say they can only see my route not where I am or my speed. It’s been like this for so long most my friends and family have stoped using it, with me about to follow. I don’t understand why waze are ignoring these bugs when the app is only gaining in popularity. Please fix the bugs and restore waze to it’s former glory!!

Unstable at times. I have loved the navigational features and support with this app since downloading it. However, recently the map disappears (and screen has frame with white space where map should be) when connecting my iPhone to my Hyundai navigator via a USB cord. This is happening quite regularly now. I disconnect the cord and reconnect and map usually comes back. However, this solution is not satisfactory when driving as I could be fined for touching my mobile phone. I have also had a couple of instances (recently only) where my trip just stops and disappears - not great when I am on a major highway and am not sure where to exit. I also had 1 instance of 1 trip stopping and a planned trip replacing it. A couple of times, the Arrival / Mins / Km info disappears. I have never had problems with the app before so feel a bit anxious about the instability I have found recently.

Love Waze but CarPlay speed limit alerts need to be fixed. Love Waze - its a treasure trove of realtime information that helps to outsmart traffic. I have used other apps like Sygic, Tomtom but they aren’t as good at routing. I was excited at the launch of CarPlay for waze but found that the speed alerts are not continuous. Once you receive an alert you don’t receive another one for a few minutes. I am not sure if its a bug or something deliberate. If it can be fixed with the option of the user choosing of the alerts should be continuous or one time, it will be make the app even better. The ability to view gas stations, parking places and other POIs on the CarPlay map are another set of improvements that will make the CarPlay experience perfect and take Wase to another level. The Sygic interface is quite good but their routing engine is not. Tomtom is working on their CarPlay but their realtime routing isn’t good either. Great opportunity for Waze. The speed limit fix will make my review a 5 star.

Good all round app, but getting directions isn’t always shortest route possible. I’ve used this app for more than a year or two, I enjoy the features it offers like traffic awareness and a point system, but I have realised that when I place my destination the app does not always offer the closest and shortest route, and when I go against its other route options which only vary by 1 street difference, I knock off about 6 minutes off my trip until I go far enough that it re routes and finds my route. I enjoy this app when it works, but unfortunately I think there might be something wrong with the route generator

Infuriating lack of sounds. I’ve had this app for a few years now and it was quite good. I love being able to tag traffic incidents and receiving traffic reports. I also like how the app will direct me to the quickest available route base on traffic, but it’s not always accurate. Unfortunately, beginning two updates ago, the sound ceased working in the app. I have emailed through the app support for help but just received an automated generic reply. I’ve adjusted all app sound settings multiple times. Discounted from car Bluetooth. And reinstalled the app. I’m at my wits end! Really hope this is fixed, because after using this app twice a day for years I’m considering deleting it all together.

GPS don’t work unless phone unlocked. I’ve had Waze for a while now and have loved it up until this point. I don’t know if it’s because I upgraded from the iPhone SE (original)to the new iPhone 11 or what but for some reason now unless I have Waze visible on the phone screen (not locked) the CarPlay map doesn’t refresh. So basically i used to jump in my car, connect my phone, open Waze on CarPlay and set my course and drive. NOW I can do the same, BUT if I want the map to refresh and be visible I have to ANNOYINGLY unlock my phone before I leave. I made sure it wasn’t a settings issue and went through every possible setting such as background app refresh and allowing the app to view my location always but nothing helped.

Got me back home when I was lost. I was using the default maps app frustrated at the directions, telling me to go to a way that didn’t exist. I was stuck unable to get home… Until I download Waze. It guided me in the right direction through a myriad of twists interns, until I finally arrived around 200 m away from my home, beaming with happiness that I was finally able to get back home when I thought I was lost. What makes this even more interesting is that I was walking and Waze still worked perfectly fine. This shows that it is the ultimate replacement for any maps app on the App Store.

Dark Mode on Carplay doesn’t work. Despite me trying ensure it’s on Dark Mode at night, or always on dark mode, the moment I connect it to Carplay, it bring up the map in Light Mode (on the car’s screen). This is annoying at night when driving, as I have to keep it connected (it’s wired) then open waze in the phone itself to get it to work in dark mode on the car’s screen. This only started happening maybe a few weeks ago. The 3 star rating I gave is an average of two ratings: 4.5 in the day and 1.5 at night. At the moment if I forgot to set up the workaround when i start driving, i just use Google Maps since it’s not blinding.

Amazing!!. Unbelievably so easy to use, works so well with my Car interface!! I just wish i could use it to track where my husband goes, laugh out loud any way I must be off to finish the Roast for Roger he gets very hungry after his workout at the gym, steemworks in northbridge.. oh if you ever go please be careful apparently, people there like to tare your clothes off, even your undergarments in the sauna! Apparently its a new member ritual. But my Roger has it happen to him every few months, I think its his old mate from Choir school Gregory that is the problem.. he has a very big mouth and well it might be why My Gregory gets hazed so much. Its so bad he canna even sit comfortably for a few days… Oh by the way i do really like the road problematic tips, it is a very grand car computer program.

Actual speed now lagging on iPhone SE 2020. A month ago after an iOS update, the actual speed showing on the screen is now lagging 5-8 seconds behind what is actually happening! Stop at traffic lights, and actual speed shown on Waze takes 5-8 seconds to get to zero. Same thing as you accelerate, it takes 5-8 seconds to catch up with what is happening. So yes, the speed is is showing at any point in time is lagging by 5-8 seconds. Never did that previously, was always keeping up with speed changes. Reported this to Waze and Apple. Apple says Waze needs to fix. Please fix it. Driving me nuts. iPhone SE2020. Same thing on first model SE. Seems to work properly on SE2022.

Very Glitchy with CarPlay. I love that this app is community driven. However, something must be done with this app’s compatibility with Apple CarPlay. Directions disappear, the map is ridiculously zoomed in at times and off-centred, “oops something went wrong” appears again and again when trying to enter an address. The navigation also freezes while driving, causing my CarPlay to crash so I need to unplug and replug my iPhone just to fix the issue, and then re-enter the address. I feel like these issues have gotten worse over the years. I only continue to use Waze for its community updates such as construction, hazards, closed roads, police, which other map apps don’t have. But please, something has to be done with these glitches!

Brilliant app built on user input. Some additional features would be good. I have been using Waze for a few years now and I absolutely love it. Travel time is generally accurate barring live incidents and the fact that it relies on user input means everything is real time. I wish it had the feature of lane choices that Google maps shows e.g. which lanes you’d need to take to go a specific direction, particularly in tunnels. Specifically, it would also be good to add non destination points en route by tapping as Waze tends to only take you by major roads which can sometimes be bypassed through the use of side lanes. All in all, a very handy app especially in cities with lots of users. Easy to find parking, fuel prices and stations on the way - would definitely recommend.

Good but occasional routing issues. Waze doesn’t like it if you alter the route by taking a different exit, turn, etc. So instead of calculating the best route from the new location it gives directions to resume the already calculated route despite not being the quickest. Essentially you need to hit the route option button to get that to happen & then you’ll see the trip is shortened by the new calculation. Google maps is better in this regard, but lacks the level of user reporting that Waze is known for. Occasionally Waze will also take small strange detours that will only add time & effort to the trip, I think this is a bug in the server as the same route will not often have such detours. Lastly I avoid using Waze in the country as it doesn’t route well out there either, Google maps is much better but not perfect either as I have been directed to locked gates by the latter.

No right turns?. I have loved this app for quite a while and don’t mind the occasional quirk. Let me start with some positives. It’s not afraid of residential streets. It has great GPS when it can connect including speed with alerts, and speed detector/red light camera warnings, along with community warnings of potential hazards from pot holes to police. One thing that has happened a few times is instead of turning right at an intersection it takes you left to do a u-turn to get back on the road you were going. In the past several days it has taken that little quirk to a whole new level, taking me km’s (miles) out of my way to go simple routes, even just basically forward, often doubling, yes doubling! my trip time. My 18 min trip this morning took 45!! I’d like to list all the incomprehensible routes it has done to me over the past 9 days (that’s when it started acting up like this) but I probably won’t have enough characters in this review. I HAVE loved this app for quite a while, but the depression I am experiencing being very late to work the past 7 days isn’t worth it and driving me back to google maps. I’m being moderate with my rating as although I am highly unlikely to continue using it, it does have some very good features not available in google or apple maps.

Extremely slow when changing routes. Good features but ridiculously slow when you take another route or street and it takes long to change route and show new direction. Very annoying and frustrating when you concentrating on the road and miss the turn you supposed to take and its still stock on old route when your direction has changed and it is still showing straight so you keep going straight then after 10 seconds or so it finally updates and tells you to go to another street and turn around. Extremely slow route update unloke other gps maps that are instant. Navigation needs a drop down banner showing directions when you need to be in another app instead of voice. Voice is annoying when it keeps repeating. For instance before a turn or a round about it tells you a couple of times where to go. Very annoying when you are listening to radio or something important and it keeps interupting. Map layout and colour is cold and boring unlike google maps. The only appealing feature i like about waze is speed detection and alert and camera alert. And apart from these two features its very slow navigating between routes, cold and boring appearance and not showing all surrounding road and street names and property numbers. Google maps is the best but dont have speed and camera alerts and detection. If i find another app that has it all i wont use waze anymore.

Used to be 5 *. I’ve been using Waze for almost 3 yrs. I use while riding my motorcycle and in my car. It was really good for navigating to new locations and for alerting to speed cams, accidents, road works, events and when over the speed limit. However, it no longer alerts when driving over the posted speed limit. We have also noticed a reduction in the voice volume, despite turning the volume to maximum. I contacted WAZE support and all they did was regurgitate the steps to follow in set up to turn this option on, despite me clearly explaining that I had already tried that. I also removed the ap, rebooted my mobile and reinstalled, to no avail. Their support team has dropped the ball. Please fix.

Good features, shocking app.. I can’t give anymore than one star to an app that crashes as much as this one. Using an 11pro max in car play and every time I get in I have to restart the app to get it to not be frozen up. Sometimes I’ve already started driving and so I have to pull over to do this then which is highly annoying. Need a feature that reduces the amount the voice says, just simple navigation and speed camera alerts. The current voices are extremely annoying so would be good to reduce how much they talk. On CarPlay you should be able to set actual speed limit when reporting a wrong limit or it will never be correct. Having speed cameras announced is great as is current speed limit on the screen, just wish the app was more reliable and had a few more features on CarPlay.

Best navigation app but some suggestions. I cannot rave about this app enough. It is has saved me countless of hours stuck in traffic. Can future updates please: - being able to select notifications on the map in overview. I want to be able to see where the hazard is and find a way to avoid it without scrolling and searching - some kind of function that generates a new route between point A and B that avoids hazards that have been logged. This would clear up traffic on major roads and cover more area. I like back roads

Latest update destroyed the app. The latest update removed all custom car icons and voices. Defaulted all my settings and basically just took any customising out of the app. Worse than this, the report bug feature does not even work. You fill out the 30 fields with information only for it to...wait for it... Encounter a problem with reporting the bug! It is impossible to contact this developer and report a bug. All the forums have been locked by devs. This is the only path of communication available and I'm sure it'll be ignored. This was literally the best transport app available and it has just slowly deteriorated over the years. When google maps gets all the live reporting features and customisations this app had I'll move. For now I guess I'll uninstall until it gets fixed? If it does this time? There's no way to revert versions on ios.

A great app - with one fault remaining. This is (almost always) the only navigation app you will need. I use it every time I go driving, even where I know the roads well, due to the way it warns of hazards and I can warn others. The navigation is great around the city and, with the minor point that it often picks the wrong side of a property to go to, it does well. The time estimates are also generally spot on, so the warnings you need to leave are given in good time. The recent addition of lane navigation almost completes the job. The problem is when you go out of the city - and out of mobile (cellular) phone coverage. Do that and the navigation is suddenly terrible. Even if your trip includes a section that is out of mobile range the app will get your trip times wrong and will send you a long way out of your way to get where you are trying to go, sometimes costing hours. I’m not sure why, but it happens. A lot. If you are going out of phone range then use Google Maps. Other than that, use this.

Navigation frustration. I got this app for speed & red light camera alerts as my new car’s navigation system doesn’t have them. These work well but sometimes you are verbally alerted & other times it shows a message on screen, which is rather pointless as I’m watching the road. Also when you want to navigate somewhere, it selects your route & then says “let’s go” but nothing happens. You can see the route, distance & time on screen but your car icon is not there & the map doesn’t move & there’s no instructions. It’s very annoying & half the time I have to stop & type in the address in Google maps or the car’s system & then don’t get the alerts that I want anymore. Apart from that, I like it’s other notifications but all notifications should be verbal.

Genuinely dangerous. Technically, the app works fine and the user generated traffic/road updates are neat. The problem is the busy UI that feels designed to draw your attention when you should be focusing on the road. The amount of steps and options to make a condition update requires too much time, it would be safer to do by voice or to place a general pin that you are promoted to categorise upon completion of your trip. On a 20 KM trip I had multiple pop-ups unrelated to my trip (such as an 'achievement' type notification and something about collectible candy); there's also avatars for other drivers and pulsing icons that are all designed to draw your attention to the screen. When behind the wheel of tonnes of steel and glass your only priorities are watching the road, paying attention to the conditions, and being aware of other vehicles around you. A navigation app that draws your attention away from the road with social media-type 'features' is irresponsible design.

Love it … BUT…. I’ve been using this app from the beginning! Its the only navigation app that hasnt sent me on wild goose chases whilst driving. Unlike Google Maps, it always knows when roads exist and when they don’t! Its the only navigation app worth using in my opinion. It relies on feedback we submit in order to give users the best possible route available in real-time traffic. It actually avoids Jams & generates better ways whilst driving by utilising feedback submitted advantageously. I hate using any other app. But Im forced to use Google Maps when riding my bicycle. 😩 It gives no option to change to a bicycle rider or a walker. This is a game changer & lets the app down tremendously. So much so, I haven’t a choice but to use an app I absolutely hate as a result of. (Google) Please can The voice of a very loyal & longtime user be heard in relation to this matter? Please and thank you would you kindly discuss in the next meeting you have, to try & promote & improve your app by making this change. Thanks

CarPlay Mobile Camera Reporting. This is by far the best navigating app around, paid or unpaid, and I have been using for many many years. However, suggestion: there absolutely needs to be the option to report mobile speed cameras whilst using in CarPlay mode. By default mobile speed cameras are reported as ‘Police’, when they are not. Also, the ability to pin a police report (not in CarPlay mode ), rather than just sending a report from your exact location. For example if you drive past an RBT setup that you can see on another road nearby, but not driving directly through it, or one on the other side of the road, one can’t accurately report. Thanks, and keep up the good work Waze! 👍🏻😊

Best Navigation App Out There.... Waze would have to be one of the best navigation apps out there. Waze includes user edited maps, which being a map editor is a fairly well thought out and easy-to-use process once you get the hang of it. When driving with the app, Waze also alerts you to any incidents (Hazards, Accidents, Police, Speed Cameras etc.) but these can be customised in case you don't want to hear about speed cameras, for instance, you also see the non- static incidents in a bar showing your route and on the map itself. These incidents are reported by live users. There is also a request assistance feature, which I have personally never used and never seen anyone use but seems like a good idea nonetheless (on iPhone you can call an assistance service straight from the app). Overall, Waze is perfect for finding your way around traffic.

Wish it was better. When trip starts take a while to load, when travelling in some places it says keep left instead it should be saying turn left not keep left also when there are 3 lanes going straight 1 turns left middle goes straight and other goes straight it doesn’t tell you get out of left lane or stay in the middle lane, when in traffic this is bad as sometimes you are in areas where u do t know that left you can only go left or right. Also when turning a corner you should say turn left and first right so stay in the right lane as sometimes there are 2 lanes turning left but only 1 again you can turn right. Also when picking someone up in a car park that is not undercover when you exit the car park it’s still loading to tell you which way to exit car park. Once all this is fixed app will be perfect can’t wait. There also should be lane guideness

Traffic. Waze has always been my number one navigation application for its traffic jam avoidance system, social scoreboard, and the overall concept. It’s also the system that Google Maps gets some raw data from. I like the idea of being on the frontline of traffic reporting. I am a ‘royalty wazer’ I guess you could say I use it a lot. Lately, when starting Waze, it takes WAY TOO LONG to ‘find GPS’ - ‘waiting for network’ I have no explanation for it, and I know what I’m doing. The only thing I can add is that this problem has only existed ever since the Commonwealth Games started here on the Gold Coast. And my app is fully up to date. Disappointed, as it means having to use another application such as Apple Maps, until Waze is ready... I will update my review when the next update is released

UPDATE KILLED WAZE !!. Absolutely rubbish finding any small villages, north of Sintra (Portugal) ! Appalling !! The latest update is awful ! Now the voices are like Google and even worse, it keeps repeating the same instructions way too many times! I already turned a corner and it still repeats to turn again (even though there’s no more turns). But the WORST: it still gives exit/turn notifications way too late, as I’ve gone past them, it says to exit - too late !! It was such a nice app to use and now you killed it !!!! There’s no longer sound, even if my phone is not on mute ! We went through a roundabout, before the app notified I had to go right at the roundabout ! We also missed a left turn, because it only shows to turn at 40m before the turn, which is not enough, as turning lane is 100m long !! Need notifications a lot earlier. I no longer can search for a business in a particular street, as it shows results for the street only (not the business) ! Very disappointing. Previously: BUGS GALORE ! It no longer speaks the entire sentence! It starts speaking a notification and goes mute halfway through.

Needs bug fixes. Waze is a great app but it’s Car Play integration needs some work. There are 2 major problems with using waze with car play which unfortunately means I’ll have to use google maps for now. Firstly, during navigation if car play disconnects for any reason and then reconnects waze does not show directions. Navigation continues and you can view directions from the phone screen but on the HUD in the car no directions are shown. So far the only way to fix this is to stop navigation and then restart the journey. When directions are shown however the directions cover the speed limit icon which is a very useful feature and an asset to car play.

Constantly get “No GPS” error. I was an early adopter with Waze years ago as I’d spent a small fortune buying all of the name-brand navigation apps and yet they either changed to subscriptions or had numerous issues they refused to fix. I raved about Waze to many friends and colleagues and as a result, most of them also adopted Waze and ditched their paid apps. I loved Waze for years: it was always up-to-date, the traffic data was accurate and I could find businesses and other destinations that none of the other “top” apps could find. However, my wife and I (she with an iPhone 6 and myself with an iPhone X) have recently started encountering the “No GPS” error message all the time, even though every other GPS-related app on our devices has no issue whatsoever. The result has been that we’re driving and trying to follow the Waze troubleshooting steps at the same time, often taking 10 mins or so to do this whilst trying to navigate to our destination. We’ve missed exits, taken wrong turns and often been late for appointments. We’re ditching Waze for now, at least until the company can get their act together and fix this critical problem. What point is there to having a GPS navigation app that won’t connect to GPS?!?!?!?

Was Waze better before. Waze became bad Waze to travel. What happened? My Waze has me going all over the place, keeps funnelling me towards Toll roads when I have asked to avoid them. This morning it tried to take me on a 7km detour and kept showing me that my local motorway on-ramp doesn’t exist. I ignored it AGAIN and went the way I normally go down my local motorway on-ramp. And these annoying and distracting adds. Is that safe? Wow you guys really sold out huh?!?! I have been a Waze pusher for a couple of years now. Suggested it to quite a few friends and colleagues. Have used it in different countries. Was amazed to find Waze in Phnom Penh. Now looking for something better... like the Old Waze

Car Audio issues. I wish I could have found a way to report this bug... And note I otherwise love Waze. When using Waze and Apple CarPlay, Waze seems to change the car audio settings. When a song is playing and the phone is switched to Music or any other app, the sound is normal. When Waze is brought to the front the music playing change audio song to a great extent. I can't explain this other than to think that Waze is overriding the iPhone audio settings for the music that is playing. It is a significant difference that makes using Waze whilst listening to music undesirable.

One suggestion. Fantastic app! I’ve given it four stars because I think it could do with some improvements. A few suggestions. First one is to have an option to choose speed cameras instead of only police. In Canberra, we have speed vans that aren’t police so it would be great to be able to indicate that it is a speed van/camera instead... Also, it would be great to have the option to be able to delete or edit a notification you’ve put up. When you’ve only just started using Waze, it’s easy to do something wrong, especially when you’ve only got a few seconds to make a decision. Lastly, I think there should be a setting where you can get Waze to calculate a route for you that avoids police and/or speed cameras. If these changes were made, this app would be perfect however, I am still very pleased with it. I never go anywhere in my car without having it on.

Undo recent changes to Alternate routes feature. Todays update broke night mode when using CarPlay. Night mode doesn’t kick in unless you open the app on the phone. Other recent changes to alternate routes feature has made it less accessible using CarPlay and is now as safety risk when driving. Alternate route icon has been moved away from the top centre of the screen and is now on the far side of the screen away from the driver. Requires you to over extend your arm and spend more time trying to focus on which button to press. Prior or was on its own and difficult to press the incorrect button. On top of this the Alternate route results have changed. Now it’s just shows the route overview essentially repeating exactly what you see on the main nav screen away (arrival time, mins and distance remaining and you have to click the word Routes to then see the suggested Alternate routes. It requires extra screen presses and takes much more concentration trying to click the right thing with less time focusing on the road. Why break something that was perfect? I use this feature half a dozen times per trip to get around bad traffic that has not yet been reported/detected by Waze.

Great App, with some minor issues that need a fix. Great app, just focuses on directions and all the impediments along the way, as long as wazers have diligently and accurately reported them. Its pleasing to the eye and is responsive to an acceptable level. However, it draws too much power from my iPhone battery and heats it up as well. I am still on a perfectly functional 12 Max Pro and use Apple car play. Otherwise, I live using the app, which essentially gives you the best of google maps, apple maps with an added waze layer on top! If battery consumption / heating problem is fixed, it would be 5 stars from me. City driving only, as that I suppose, is the main use case.

Frustrating compared to how it was. I’ve used this app for ages (I’m a Knight Wazer) and recommended it to many others especially for the real time traffic issues it’s helped me avoid in a sales management role that keeps me on the road. However the update a couple months ago has me avoiding it now and using others. It’s taking WAY too long to load and often says there’s no network when my other apps aren’t having that issue. There are a few other things I’m finding a bit disappointing now but that’s the main one steering me away. I don’t have time to constantly wait or reload. Using Google Maps more again. I hope it gets fixed.

Great but listen to the users. I’ve been using this app for about a year now and love it in my local areas. However like a lot of people when navigating new areas it’s hard to use, with last second route changes, no lane warnings, and the crashes on apple CarPlay it makes it a little more difficult to use. If those problems could be addressed then Waze would be a solid 5/5. I love that I’m told my speed and speed zones, camera/police warnings, and the user based information to get the fastest real-time road conditions. Those are super helpful features and make peakhour much less of a headache.

CarPlay needs improving. Love the app on my iPhone but with the new release on CarPlay, not so good on the Volkswagen App. There are some bugs and improvements that need to be made. When you don’t have any directions entered, speed limit displays intermittently but no speedo. When directions are entered, you can see the top of the speed limit symbol but it’s covered over by the black bubble that displays your next turn, still no speedo. You cannot select other wazers on the screen nor can you select any other things like petrol stations, police, accidents etc. Basically, functionality is very limited. I love this app on my phone and it would be great to have all the functions of the phone on the cars display.

Some shortcomings. The underlying concept of ‘crowd funding’ traffic info is really great. There are a few things which bug me. I understand that for the more infantile of us it may be great fun to allocate a cartoon to show our vehicle on the road. The plethora of different symbles however on a screen that small makes it very hard to identify other icons inserted by the programme to convey warnings of some kind. It would be a great step forward if all users shared the same easily recognised icon. The other thing which bothers me is that info provided by me has to be entered by hand. If caught by the phone detection cameras in Australia, that would be an extremely expensive bit of info published via the programme. And am I right thinking that the voice command function has been completely discontinued? If so, use it at your own peril... PS the author should leave the note : still there/no longer there on the screen for longer. There is not enough time to check at the location AND report once passed

Great app but does have limitations for navigation. One of my friends put me onto Waze, I’ve been using it regularly as my driving app of choice. Communication with other Waze drivers about speed cameras, the main point about Waze I believe has literally saved me 100s of dollars and absolutely recommend it just for this. It also has a realistic speedometer, much more accurate than the one in my car so I’ll use it over the one in my actual car. However it does have its limitations which need to be addressed. The navigation/directions given are not great and it can take you on strange paths to get you where you need to go. The landmarks/house numbers can also be completely off so Waze is not reliable for directions. In summation Waze is good for a driving app that can show your real speed and alerts you to speed cameras quite reliably. Don’t use it for navigation however, you could end up in the wrong place.

I refuse to use any other source for navigation. Waze is by far the best navigation tool in the market, it is more accurate at estimating time, reporting traffic flow & alerting about hazards and events in comparison to other applications. And what makes it even more appealing is; as a contributing user.. there has been times where reporting ‘fix’s’ have been necessary after road works, etc… and every interaction I have had with the map editors has been stress free, prompt and logical! When you need the support (on and off road) Waze & it’s community are there for you!

Great for avoiding traffic. I use this all the time when I’m going to a known destination I’ve been before. It’s great for routing you the fastest way. However, when you divert off a route (because you missed a turn etc) it constantly tries to put you back on that route. Every week, twice a week I drive to the same destination. Every week it directs me a way where there is multiple speed humps. Speed humps and my car do not agree. So I take another smoother route which takes the same amount of time, if not shorter, but every week it diverts me through speed humps. When travelling to a new destination i will use google maps app because it lets you know which lane to be in. It’s kinda hard to move across 4 lanes of traffic. If there are 2 lanes and one is banked up for 800m you look like a jerk when you realise you need to squeeze into the banked up lane to make a turn.

Was a good app, until the technical issues. The technical support for this app is utterly useless! They will give you a list of instructions to try to fix the problem, but it doesn't fix it. Then you'll get a different support person emailing back, who will give you the same things to try again! Around and around in circles you go, with the app still not working. It is like a full-time job following their list of instructions, but you'll soon catch on that you're going around in circles. It seems like they're not really too concerned with getting the app working for you, but rather, just want to tick off the box that they replied to your email and keep you busy until you don't have time to keep following up or just give up.

Miss direction!!. I’ve been using this app for the past 6 months now and really enjoy it, it’s great to keep track of the local speed zones and your speed, it would be good if it gave a little sound or something once you go over speed limit rather than having to keep looking at screen. Also over the past month I’m not sure what is going on but for some reason it doesn’t always map out the fastest route, a lot of times I use the app when I work away but once I get closer to my area I take a few different turns and end up saving up to 20 minutes some days depending on traffic. It would be a nice feature if you could leave to app open and could track your back streets or something that could work into other routes.

good app but…. PLEASE ADD THESE 2 FEATURES FOR 5 STARS! 1. Allow the the option to disable the recalculating alert. It is absolutely horrible and people have been complaining about this for years. 2. Allow for speed camera and traffic alerts for everyday driving, not exclusively for navigation. For example, I work in the exact same location every single day. I have to go to the waze app and “navigate” to my work every singe day, just so i’m alerted of speed cameras and traffic reports. Surely I should just be able to open waze and receive traffic reports on the way to work without having to actually navigate.

Great App. Love the app, use it religiously when driving. Even if I know the drive I still have it going in the background. However, a massive improvement would be when you are in a multiple turning lane it would be an improvement to have the app highlight the correct lane to be in when there is another turn coming up. For example a three lane of right turns you could be in the far right then in 400m it wants you to turn left. It would be easier to navigate if the far left or middle lane were highlighted to be in to help with the issue of city driving.

Could be 5 star. Still not good ux. Have used it for 5+ years and although I use it daily there certain things that are terrible. 1) Always faces the wrong way when I start a journey and then has to recalculate 2) Takes forever to reroute if you miss a turnoff 3) Is painfully inaccurate at detecting how close you are to an upcoming turn, and you often end up missing your turn because on the map it looks way further ahead 4) When you have your bluetooth connected and you issue an “OK waze” command, it displays the talking icon at bottom of screen and it sounds like someone is whispering, or it seems to play the audio via the phone speaker instead of the bluetooth. Enough to make you pull your hair out as you can’t hear what it is saying. From what I know, you’re a multibillion dollar company bought out by Google. Please fix these basic UX issues ‘cos some of them are pretty embarrassing guys.

Why is the speed never consistent. I have loved Waze until the last 3 or so months. Every time I use it it tells me I’m speeding or so under the speed limit that I should have other cars going nuts at me. Lucky I got to know where on my speedo is safe for me other wise I would be constantly changing speed. I think my most favourite so far is I was doing 245km when just starting to move in my car. I love the fact that I can use it with car play but it is basically useless to me. I only use it to get directions for somewhere new or for warnings. Even the freezing or just refuse to even load on Apple CarPlay is so annoying. The only way you can fix it is if you completely turn the car off and on and I don’t want to do that all the time either. Soon I won’t even use it any more as it just doesn’t perform like it use

Fantastic real time navigation wish there was option to remove ads and download offline maps. Waze is a nice and stable gps app. Works well on iPhone 12 and even an old 6s running iOS 15.5. Fantastic on an iPad mini 2 cellular the bigger screen map display is so much better than on an iPhone. The real time traffic is great. But Waze is not perfect. Seems you can only submit four reports during any drive after that you get the “too many reports” message. Also the ads are annoying seriously is google that desperate for money? Wish there was an option to remove the ads and download offline maps for a small fee.

Stressful driving experiences. I used to highly recommend waze to everyone I know but recently waze has caused me some extremely stressful driving experiences. One example is that it has directed me across the harbour bridge and then to come back across it, I assume it’s because of some satellite issue? I have told this story to friends for them to say they’ve had the same experience and been late for important meetings in the city and had to have paid an unnecessary toll twice. I’ve had waze direct me in complete circles, to return back to roads I was already on (no there was no traffic jam). I’ve had waze direct me left onto a main road and then right within 100 metres, how can I across 4 lanes in that distance?? I have avoid difficult intersections turned on yet I have been asked to turn right at a marked black spot intersection and had a car accident where I was hit at 70km/h (as the driver I should’ve ignored waze and continued straight) I can not continue to use this app anymore, which is disappointing. I hope these issues can be fixed.

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Advertisements are dangerous. It is incredibly stupid and dangerous for ads to pop up while driving. They block your view of directions, and the only way to get rid of the ads is to swipe them away. I don’t want to have to fiddle with my phone while driving and risk getting in an accident or receiving a hefty fine. Terrible design

Battery Life. Your software developers seriously have to fix the battery usage for the app. I use it everyday for about half an hour and it takes up 50% each time. It has nothing to do with the battery life of my phone or with constantly using my location. I tried it with apple maps.

Just wow and more. Great Fantastic Intuitive Informative . What all apps should be. Delivers on all expectations while building a cooperative community among users. Cusps

By far the best navigation app!. Very useful, makes life easier and gets u there faster. Recomend it! One suggestion I can make it is having ability to more than one stop in between final destination ;)

Now works on CarPlay!!. Finally downloaded the new update and works with my CarPlay! Works flawlessly. I know cars have speedometers but it would be nice if it shows the speed and if you are going too fast like it does if I weren’t using CarPlay.

New Update is HORRIBLE!. The latest update has messed the zoom up on Apple CarPlay, to the point that it’s now almost unusable. The car (arrow) is almost completely cut off, as are the streets when I’m supposed to turn on them. This problem needs to be fixed ASAP, or I’ll have no choice but to switch to Google or Apple Maps. Incredibly frustrating.

Best app. Helped me to avoid police while driving with no drivers licence for 2 years, best app 10/5⭐️

One little thing…. I love this app. It’s my favourite one to use when driving around. I prefer is over Apple and google maps, however… I do wish for one little thing. The navigation audio is as little too quiet when listening to music over Bluetooth to my car and there have been many times I didn’t hear instructions for a turn. I wish for one of two things. The volume to go even louder than it currently is at Max setting to drown out the other audio or to mute the music when giving audio navigation. Yes I Do have my audio slider set to Max and it’s still too quiet. I’ve even tried setting audio to come out the phone but still too quiet. That’s the only quibble with the app. Everything else is awesome! I especially love the customization for the car icon and voice navigation (when I can hear it) 👍

I lost all my history. With the last update I lost the whole history of trips, which was very useful.

Great app, dead battery. Not sure why it needs to run 24/7, but it kills each phone I try it on. 16h of background app usage? What for, exactly?

Just WOW !!!. The best GPS app by a mile.

Bad update. Last update prevents night mode to work with apple carplay now. Bright white screen at all times now… Please fix asap!!!

Ads are DANGEROUS in a sat-nav app. You have the most distracting ads in any map app and those are VERY DANGEROUS during driving.

Fix Apple CarPlay lag. Please fix Apple CarPlay lagging issue.

REMOVE ADS!. REMOVE ADS! Distracting and if you have an insurance apps that requires you to have an app such as intact insurance. It tracts your abs can tell if you’re getting notifications. Therefore it think your using your phone and you lose points on focus. Great app but the ads ruin it! At least offer a paid version to remove ads.

Asking for Health Activity data. Apple says apps that don’t provide health functionality shouldn’t ask for health data.... waze wants access to activity data “to help find my parking spot?” Give me a break

Terrible app - google ruined it. Terrible in city traffic. Isn’t up to date and gets confused

Stop making it worse. Hey Waze, stop updating your app and making it worse. Apple car play no longer displays map in “dark mode” during the day. The regular colours are to bright and distracting especially during cloudy overcast days. Dark mode needs to be available all the time.

App Failure. Waze was updated about a week ago. Since then I’ve tried to to get it to work on 4 different devices and all I get is “searching for network” for several minutes & then I get “oops, something went wrong” & that’s it. It won’t work. Clearly your new update has wrecked a wonderful app. Please fix this? Also, a lady commented on the non-stop pop up ads that are a huge annoyance & distraction. At least give us the option to pay to get rid of them. Thank you for what has otherwise been a wonderful app. grjs

Version 3.67 Breaks Car Audio. The most recent version (v4.67) breaks audio playback as soon as Waze pops up via CarPlay in my 2020 RAV4. Only option to fix this is to madly press audio switching buttons (which works about half the time) or to force quit Waze.

POPUP ADS ARE DANGEROUS. If I could give the app 0 stars I would. Popup ads that take up a third of the screen make trying to drive by it’s instructions *very* difficult, not to mention hugely distracting to the driver every time they come on screen. The developers have also removed the “can’t interact while driving” function which is the complete opposite of safety conscious.

Carplay support. Hey please update the waze app for the apple carplay

Need update for CarPlay. Please update the Waze maps for CarPlay. Thanks in advance.

Trash now. This app used to be good and chose fast routes, now adds an additional 30min-2h to routes compared to google maps. Also can’t route myself home (700km) giving me 2 errors: destination is too far or no route exists. Even though I used this app halfway to my destination before google routed me a way that was 50 minutes faster that Waze didn’t have. Will no longer be using this app as its slowly turned to garbage.

Very good map but battery killer. It’s use too much for the battery, should be fix that problem, map is amazing.

Boring. Although this app takes you somewhere as quick as possible it absolutely will not let you choose your own route shame. Sometimes I like to take it easy

Best thing since sliced bread. Title says it all

Music volume too high while directions are being said. After this new update, it no longer decreases the volume of my music playing on Spotify while the GPS is giving directions. I can no long hear the directions as they are being spoken, and it causes me to look down at my phone instead of paying attention to the road!

Était excellent, mais peut mieux faire. Les dernières semaines, Waze nous envoyait tout le temps dans des parcours de rues fermées, au milieu du chantier du pont Champlain, et pendant TOUT le week-end. SVP, revenez comme avant, c’était mieux mis à jour.

Not warning me about $25 toll routes. Smarten up

Test on CarPlay?. Do you even test on apple carplay? Waze is a great app, but plagued with many bugs and a something confusing UX.

Great app. Love love love it!

Causes Apple CarPlay to lag. I would give this app five stars if it worked properly with Apple CarPlay. When Waze is running it causes lag in the entire CarPlay system/interface and when using Waze the map loading time is at least 10 seconds behind which renders the turn by turn navigation useless. I plead that this be fixed as I’m sure many users as indicated in your forums are looking for a solution.

Great app, needs car play and pay to remove ads. Really helps navigate in construction season!

Ruined the app with your dog and cat mode. The cat and dog mode ruined the app. Turn it off you say? You can’t!!! What a stupid feature!!!

Needs to have most fuel efficient route. It would be great if we could see clearly what route was the most fuel efficient.

5*. Best Gps app

Absolutely Love Waze!. What an amazing app! The new Cristina Aguilera’s guide voice for driving is beyond great! Thank you.

Waze. Perfect in city trafic, always take the best route, stop wondering...

Not for electric car, one destination one stop. It ask if you have an electric vehicle? YES. Should ask for connector type and/or level and or distance/autonomy Not for regular diesel.... When you ask for recharge station it propose gaz station Just illusion What did I miss? Can’t put more than one stop on a plan destination! Use to It Crash You need to wait when planning a destination. Why not ask when I want to be there first?

Pop-up Ads while on route. Pop-up Ads just started showing up all of a sudden. They show up only when you are stopped, but they show up EVERY time you are stopped. I thought we were trying to eliminate distracted driving. Kind of disappointing. Loved this app when it didn’t do this.

All-day user review. Pros - fastest route, avoids tolls, better voice guidance than google maps Cons - #1. DOSE NOT GIVE CONSISTENT ADVANCED NOTICE OF NEXT INSTRUCTION. FOR EXAMPLE WHEN I AM COMING OFF A RAMP OF A HIGHWAY I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF I AM TURNING LEFT OR RIGHT EARLIER THAN 5 SECONDS BEFORE I AM AT THE INTERSECTION AND AM FORCED TO CHANGE LANES AND CUT PEOPLE OFF AT THE LAST MINUTE BECAUSE I GUESSED WRONG. SUCH A SIMPLE FIX, IT ALREADY HAS A FEATURE FOR THE NEXT INSTRUCTION TO DISPLAY UNDER THE CURRENT ONE BUT IT ALMOST NEVER WORKS. PLS FIX THIS. WANT THE NEXT INSTRUCTION DISPLAYED UNDER THE CURRENT ONE ALL THE TIME. #2. WHEN I ARRIVE AT A DESTINATION I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE ADDRESS DISPLAYED LARGER THAN SIZE 12 FONT, WAY SMALLER THAN NAVIGATION INSTRUCTIONS ON SCREEN FOR NO REASON. MANY TIMES THE ADDRESS DOSE NOT DISPLAY AT ALL AND I HAVE TO MANUALLY CHECK THE APP. WOULD THINK THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS THE ACTUAL ADDRESS YOU ARE GOING TO, IF YOU COULD DISPLAY IT LARGE ENOUGH TO ACTUALLY SEE SUCH AS THE SIZE OF THE NAVIGATION INSTRUCTIONS THAT WOULD BE GREAT. THE DESTINATION IS MOST IMPORTANT I WOULD THINK, I AM GOING TO RESIDENTIAL HOUSES THAT ALL LOOK THE SAME NOT A RETAIL STORE WITH A SIGN SO THE ADDRESS NUMBER IS MOST IMPORTANT.

Does not promote safe driving. Hi Waze, I really like the fact that you rely on real time data to update it's users practically saving a lot of time with the help of those updates. However, in a world where distractions are in abundance and distracted driving is rampant, you have asked me to like, make suggestions and report on the driving conditions of the road while I AM DRIVING. How is that safe unless you have another adult in the vehicle that you are driving? Also, you announce exits 500 to 200 metres away from the exit which sometimes makes it impossible to merge in a busy traffic. There is no announcement about which lane I should be in which would certainly help especially for young/inexperienced drivers. I will be disabling my account for I have found a better alternative. I am really amazed that no user has ever reported these anamolies.

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Good but Battery killer. This app is significantly better than any other gps app, but it absolutely annihilates battery life.

Annoying, takes you on weird routes, and has ads.. The report feature, while great, is about the only convincing feature of this app. We used this for a road trip and it decided to take us out of our way onto a random dirt road to get somewhere the highway would’ve easily taken us faster. Just use Google maps. It’s free and does the exact same thing.

Not always the best route. I’ve noticed that Waze does not always choose the best route. Not sure what your algorithm is but if often happens that I ignore the route suggested by Waze and continue driving while it recalculates only to discover the new suggested route (that I am now on) actually has a faster arrival time to my destination. I don’t understand why Waze didn’t choose that route in the first place. Also, as a feature, it would be nice to be able to turn off the auto-centering so that I can use the arrows to scroll through the map and see potential problem areas along the route. Right now it’s a real hassle to do this because Waze constantly re-centers the map to where the car is when I try to go beyond a certain pount.

So broken. How in the world did Google manage to completely break what used to be a really solid navigation app?? Just like they did with Nest I guess. Buy a great product then complex destroy it. Cant login anymore, cant connect to the Waze network, cannot navigate to most places. Whatever updates have been done lately have severely broken this app to the point where basic functionality no longer works making this a totally useless app. Such a shame

Best map app out there.. By far the best map app out there on iPhones. The social information gathering is what really makes the real time information and route updates work.

Night mode CarPlay..?.?.?.. No matter witch settings we choose, night mode won’t work. Always white and bright on CarPlay

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Great but some gripes. I drive all over the country for work. The app has been a godsend as far as reporting speed traps, hazards, and rerouting. I love the fact that I can make my own voice commands and I had my toddler record them for me. I had to play with the settings in order to get directions. The default for the app is to mute while other media is playing. So if you use apple play and listen to an audiobook, stream music, or on a voice call the directions will cease to be spoken. I ended up way off course because there were no audible prompts during a long phone call with my family. I was going to delete the app but looked into it. I don’t think the default should be to mute when other apps are in use. I don’t like the fact that you have to make the app go into sleep mode. It will stay on even if you have no active destination and have locked your phone. I’d say about 25% of the time it will even try to keep rerouting me even though I’ve reached the destination. Many times Ive walked into a restaurant or hotel or even home for the app to yell rerouting! Very annoying. No other mapping app does this.

Generally good but can be slow & ads are distracting. First, Waze has been generally more accurate than google or apple maps, so I would still recommend it over them. The distance from your location to a turn is much more accurate and doesn't make it look like it's significantly farther, which is a problem I've had on other apps. My two issues though: Speed to update route: when I've missed a turn, the app takes a LONG time to adjust the route, often telling me to take turns on roads I've already passed. Recently had a drive where I would pass a road and it would then tell me to turn. I've also had connectivity issues when in areas that still have strong phone service. Ads: Large pop up ads that dim the rest of the map. This is VERY distracting when driving - and very dangerous for drivers! I don't love the pop ups in general even though I like the warnings about cameras/traffic. This catches your eye while driving when you don't expect it and I can easily see someone getting distracted enough to crash. PLEASE change this or find a way to make it less distracting to drivers - it's simply irresponsible in the way it's implemented.

Changed too much. I always use Waze. But it no longer has enough data to rely on. It is very hard to get a report in on it. You are used way past the incident before you can report on it. First, you have a carpool tab that gets in the way. San Francisco is glad but to the majority of the country it gets in the way. Then it asks if you are a passenger and, of course if you are wanting to put something in, you are going to lie yes. You are now 100 yards past the incident. Then it’s so small you have to figure out what category. Not only are you distracted you are half a mile past. By the time figure out how to put it I, you are a mile away so you give up. Other apps (Inrix) use the state reports. In the last year I have seen SCDOT and Inrix listing incidents and I go to Waze and there is nothing there. Waze has gone from a 5 star app to a 2 star app because no one reports anymore. If there’s anyone there since the merger who cares, I would urge you to figure out what you can do to get people to report. (Incidentally, since at least half of the people in the USA drive pickup trucks you might consider having an icon for them) Incidentally, I just read some of the other reviews and some of them had serious criticisms but had 5 star ratings. Are you altering our responses?

Ford Sync Integration. Love that I can now project Waze right on to my big screen with Sync 3. However, it seems like I often have to close the app, disconnect the phone then re open the app are re connect the phone for it to work. Otherwise on the first attempt when I launch Waze on Sync 3 it just sits there saying waiting for the device indefinitely. In addition, the performance is rather sluggish on screen. Attempting to report anything or do a search on screen is painful. So you end up closing the app and doing it on the the phone first then re launching the app on Sync 3. So I'm really hoping to see a performance improvement as the integration matures. My only other complaint would be that unlike the built in system navigation that can utilize the whole screen, Waze feels scrunched as to leave the system navigation buttons accessible at the bottom. Likewise when on the home screen the built in navigation gives you a mini map but when Waze is running you just get the Waze icon until you click it. I'm assuming since it's a third party integration there may be nothing that can be done about that but if it could that would be awesome.

Should be five stars, but bugs are terrible. This app clearly works better than the other navigation apps out there when it’s functional. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t do some ridiculous things, like taking you off the highway for one exit then putting you back on the highway the next exitWhen the highway is bumper-to-bumper and you can clearly see that the side road is moving much faster until the following exit. However, two stars is really just because the app often doesn’t work at all. It cannot calculate a route and indicates that something went wrong. Google maps, Apple Maps, and others are working, but Waze, especially in the morning, doesn’t work 1 to 2 times a week. Navigation app that can connect and can’t tell you were out it’s not a five star application. I would like to see the ability to see alternate routes while driving, especially ones that bypass tolls, as I have selected the toll route because it is shorter by the time I get to a location an hour later taking the no toll way Would only be one minute slower as traffic had improved, but I cannot see that on the app unless I end my route and then we started to get that updated information.

Recently, directions went downhill. Within the last month or so, I’ve had two pretty costly issues. You can only see part of the address in the search bar, and it doesn’t show you the location of the destination that it assumes you’re intending to go. I ended up being routed to incorrect locations that were equidistant from my current location but an hour away from where I’d intended to go. Waze doesn’t give you the bird’s eye view of the destination prior to getting started (like Google Maps does); you also can’t see the entire address (city) in the search bar to ensure it’s correct. The last straw was when I entered the street address and city, picked the top choice, and I still received guidance to the wrong town. The mileage and travel time were incredibly similar and, given that Waze routes around traffic, it wasn’t until I was halfway to the “destination” that I realized things were very wrong. I drive a lot for work and really appreciated how Waze helped me navigate around accidents and gave me a head’s up about hazards, but I don’t trust it anymore. If you know your route and just want to see if there are police along the way, use Waze. If you’re looking for actual navigation then use Google Maps or some other app.

Poor iPhone X support. Even after a couple of updates since the iPhone X was released there’s still little to no changes in the interface issues they have with the iPhone X. When using directions the screen is biased way too far left. They state this is to make sure the alerts/directions have enough space but they’ve given it far too much. You see almost nothing to the right side of the map when navigating. What’s even worse is when you’re not actively navigating and just want to use it for traffic alerts and hazards on a route you already know the map is biased even farther to the left. When just using it for the purpose of knowing what hazards are around you when not navigating it’s not acceptable to not be able to see anything on the right hand side of the screen. I’ve emailed them and submitted a bug report but they responded that this was their intended behavior. I would rate it lower but I feel that would be too harsh. If they can fix that and fix the fact that the icons on screen are cut off on the right side I may reconsider my rating. Until now it’s a three star app at best, not being able to see anything on one side of the screen is just not acceptable.

Constantly searching for GPS. Not sure what has happened as of recent, but I am disappointed in Waze. I have used this app for years now and have recommended it to many friends and colleagues who otherwise use other apps; however, it has gotten to where the app loses gps signal constantly while driving. This causes me to miss turns, receive updates, etc. and when GPS connects, intermittently I might add, I end up having to turn around or go way out of my way to correct the route causing additional time to my trip. One of the primary purposes of using any gps is to arrive at your destination the quickest route possible, right? After many years of using the app, I am finding myself having to switch to other apps during trips just because of the connection issues (note that I know it is Waze and not my phone since when I do switch to other apps, the gps signal is there) Please fix this! Also, the fact that unless you have the phone plugged in while using, the battery on your phone will be dead before you even get to the destination. This has ALWAYS been an issue that seems like should have been fixed/addressed long ago.

Took me out of my way for the worse.. I decided to try out Waze after hearing so many people gushing about its time saving routes. However, in my experience on using it for my commute home, the app added on 15 minutes to my normal commute time by bringing me into even worse traffic than I normally experience on my commute home. Waze brought me through a town in an attempt to cut off time from my commute, but the town (with its excessive amounts of traffic lights and large amount of commuters also trying this way to cut time off) proved to increase my expected time home (stated by the app upon initiation of the route) by 15 minutes. Once I finally reached the freeway again, the traffic was lightened considerably, however I likely would have made it through the traffic that I normally experience in less time than I had taking Waze’s route. Normally, just 15 minutes of additional time to my commute wouldn’t warrant such a low rating on an app. However, because Waze added time to my commute that I normally don’t have and had me go through a town which had arguably worse traffic than what I normally experience, I can’t recommend it above other map apps such as Google Maps or Apple Maps.

Definitely the best. This app gets me everywhere I need to go. I use it daily for almost every trip. I have Apple Carplay and all I have to do is say, "Take me to ______ using Waze" and it launches and starts to give directions which is perfect for when you're already driving and need to head somewhere else on the fly. I have 2 minor complaints. 1) Waze tends to learn my routine and automatically programs itself to take me where it thinks I needs to go. Normally this is great but there's been times when I've asked to go elsewhere and it's logic had overridden my request. For instance, I asked to go to somewhere on a vacation day and it started directing me to work. No fun!! Lol. 2) I love using the voices. Cookie Monster is great. But, there are times when you don't want the interruption, just the onscreen directions. I wish that the onscreen mute button was simply on/off. Instead it takes you to a new menu to select alerts only or to mute everything. I've NEVER wanted alerts only. If anything I'd want the opposite but would much prefer a simple mute/unmute function. That way I don't have to have my eyes off the road to mute/unmute. Please correct this!! Otherwise though, it's the only navigation I use.

Wish there was a way to rate CarPlay separately.. Love waze, have used it for years. Actual app is 5/5. Can provide a little too much info if you are a first time user, but once you get use to the extra info(and how to filter it off the screen if you want to) it’s an amazing service. (E.G. auto re-routing, time reduced traffic reroute, accident and police info, and even a calming voice showing you how long you’ll be in traffic. Having said all that, the carplay execution of this app is garbage. The whole point of car play is to be hands free and not require you to look at the phone screen while enhancing user knowledge by taking advantage of the larger screen, but half the useful info (inexplicably) is on the phone screen during carplay interaction. The screen also doesn’t display when you are going faster than the speed limit and has reduced re-routing functionality. It basically takes away key capabilities and functionality to allow me to use a marginally larger screen. I got so frustrated with the overall car play experience that I’ve opted to just start using bluetooth and a phone holder. Probably not entirely Waze’s fault, but the end result is a terrible user interaction.

Battery Murderer: Keep your charger handy!. I love Waze overall. Sometimes it seems like the routes it gives me put me right into the thick of traffic jams, however, I also acknowledge that alternative routes may be worse. I really like the features that allow me and other “Wazers” to report police, hazards and traffic on my routes. What I DO NOT LIKE is the battery consumption of the app. Waze literally eats 50% of my battery power in less than 1 hour of use. I have a new phone too, so I know it has nothing to do with my battery life, or age of my phone. I know that the features it has (real-time traffic information, etc.) means it has to be constantly refreshing to keep the information current, BUT, it would be highly problematic if I had a longer commute than just the 20 miles I have. I have to charge my phone half way through the afternoon because I use it for my trip home, which throws off my charging schedule altogether. I truly hope the developers are able to find some kind of fix for this because if not, I’ll just have to stop using it and find an alternative, or just deal with a little bit of traffic for a while.

Used to love waze. I’ve had waze for several years now. I’ve seen a lot of changes and improvements with the app. Now I use waze all day everyday with my delivery job. I totally depend on waze helping me get somewhere in the most efficient way. Plus it is powered thru my work app so all I have to do in my work app is tap “navigate” and I don’t need to type in the address. It’s great. However for about the past month I have been running into major glitches. One is that I tap navigate and the app just spins, never pulling up the directions. I have to kill the app and start over. The next and most frustrating is that waze has taken me on some complete, major circles. I’m somewhat familiar with my city but need help in neighborhoods so I can USUALLY catch the runaround before I actually drive a complete 10 mile circle. I thought it was just like from over using the app or something so I switched to google maps. Didn’t care for the visuals of it BUT I absolutely love that on google at the end it will actually tell you your destination is either on the left or right. So to waze....please please add that feature to your app!

Taken down a very unsafe path. My mother and I took a trip into Mexico, and this was my first time using this app. I’m used to my GPS, asking me if I’d like to take an alternate route before automatically redirecting, but usually it takes me on the best route period with this app, I understand it takes you on different routes that are not the average like back Ways and shortcuts . it’s took us into this path that was very unsafe and suspect looking, but I figured since the app was taking us, it must not be too bad. the route that was taking us took us to this, if you wanna call it that, a path that looks like a junkyard. I felt very on safe, driving on down this “road” . Ultimately, I ended up switching back to Google Maps because I thought at any point time I was going to drop off this path into some sort of hole or I don’t know like fall off the path. it was very scary. I wish that I had known that this app takes you routes that are unsafe even if they are supposedly convenient because I definitely would not have driven down this road ahead. That alone would make me not want to use this app again. I did like the fact that warns you about the police, but again that was really scary experience.

Used to like it. Overall it is a nice app. I love how it can be useful with up-to-date notifications from other wazers. But there are flaws. First, I can't stand how it is worthless without Internet connection, so when I have no data I am unable to help others and report a car accident or speed cam I see. Second, once I tried to be helpful after I spent a long time in an unexpected traffic jam due to road works and a followed change of traffic flows, but the person responsible for editing maps told me it was non-important since it was a temporary change. What the heck, why can't you stop being a douche and let people know they can't pass now? Yes, they will drive as soon as works are done but that's in days, and before that it is forbidden to go in that direction. I thought it was a dumb behavior of a moderator, so I decided not to deal with map editing anymore. Too bad since I know about many closures and traffic changes while Waze fails to know it before me. Be more adequate and user friendly, and you'll become a wonderful application. Until that I'm using a local app that is indifferent to Internet and is quite fast to warn drivers about any circumstances they may come across.

Not Real time or realistic. Started using the app yesterday from Massachusetts to New York. It told me several locations were cops are reported where there was none but reported within a few minutes Amira passing the area. There were no cops in any of these locations. The same holds true for vehicles on the side of the road. There’s nowhere in this app allows a person to edit the information. If the app is trailing you and using her GPS at a particular location then it should know where your vehicle is stopped at and for how long to determine if it’s an impeachment to traffic or any given situation. Why not use an overlay and retrieve information from google as to the traffic flow which would then determine the best route to take. This app only gives you direction from point a to point B but does not give you real live traffic situations to avoid delays or rerouting. Everyone using the app has to be in real time how does one know whether there is no longer a speed trap ahead? You also then cannot have each individual editing at Will because then they’ll just delete the stop so I’m not understanding the usefulness except to be able to see other people that are in the area that you’re associated with in your address book which is basically stocking

Great app but there are some issues. Been using Waze for at least two years. Waze functions very well for real time driving directions and traffic. There are some issues though: the battery drain is real and reported by other reviewers. The app also responds slowly at times and makes turn by turn directions tricky at crucial moments. For me, however, I am most annoyed by the constant pop up to change my settings so that Waze can use location services “Always” instead of “Only when app is in use.” Developers need to change the app immediately to stop asking this of users. I would argue few users want to be constantly monitored by their apps— so there’s the privacy issue. The power drain usage also comes into play here again as well. PLEASE stop trying to force users to have Waze “on” essentially all the time. I want and expect to control when I want my apps to be in use and I resent the app trying to force me to have it on all the time. I don’t really by them excuse that it will help make the app “more accurate.”

I can be a FIVE STAR App!. This app can be a five star app. Granted it’s new and growing. But, the directions are not always exact. The notifications on traffic, things on the road, car pulled over, accidents, police near by, red camera alerts are amazing!!! This app can be five star when the directions to some areas are corrected. Even when submitting a notice of an address that is incorrect is some times difficult to fix. These addresses are confused with streets that are similar in name. For example, Moreno is the correct address vs. Mereno which is also a street and is not correct in pertaining to the location I need to go to. I have had it corrected by another Wazer, yet is reverted back to the wrong name of the street. Those are the frustrations I have. I notice it more on some addresses being incorrect based on, that I am driving a lot. This app is great for keeping you aware of where police radar are being seen by other Wazers. The Wazers are what makes this app so useful and fun to use. Such a wonderful idea and to make you aware of traffic locations, slow downs, standstills and much more. I really like how the blue circle gets highlighted around your car on the app when you have driven into a radar area. Love this app!

Absolutely terrible for the last week. DEVS LISTEN UP. THIS IS SERIOUS. I cannot believe I am saying this and I am certainly not one for reviews. But let me tell you, in the last week I’ve been using this app besides using it every day. I have had the most ABSOLUTE WORST SERVICE from this app. I don’t get it. It usually always works. The app has not been loading data or locations randomly especially when on the road when I NEED TO KNOW WHICH TURNS TO TAKE to avoid driving around aimlessly. I thought it was my service but every single nav app worked perfect Waze has been the problem. And the same thing on all our devices. The app also suddenly freezes out of the blue in the middle of navigating. I’ve been using it for years so I know how to work the app etc but it has really been off. Please update this app because it literally the best nav app on the market and we need it back DEVS. We’ve been on a really long road trip and it’s been terrible since we started and we don’t get why. Please help the Waze community.

Waze is a great for my daily commute. I have a 65 mile (each way) daily commute on I-75 to work, and I use Waze every time. I have tuned my settings to my liking, so my music isnt interrupted, yet I get visible alerts for road hazards, law enforcement, collisions etc. Its well worth taking the 3 minutes needed to adjust settings to fit your needs, as other commentors seem to complain about "alerts interrupting their car audio listening", or the "voice directions", set those accordingly and it will make Waze a pleasure to use. Waze is has plenty of customizable characters if thats your thing, if having your "favorite icon" such as Batman isnt available, and thats a deal breaker, you probably shouldn't be operating a vehicle anyway..🤭 Waze is very precise on the estimated time of arrival as well, Ive monitored the estimate compared to my actual arrival time at work, and its always within one minute. The only thing Id like to see made a bit simpler is the users ability to edit the map to help keep it as up to date as possible. Now, Im off to Gotham city!🤣

Mostly Good Navigation, Interface Problems. I switch back and forth between Waze and Google maps, often comparing routes. While usually similar, Waze seems to be better on avoiding problems and using real-time traffic data. However, it also has an annoying bug — occasionally it will take you off the most direct route and send you in a large circle, ending back on the main route close to where you left. I’ve seen this happen when it was clear there was no reason to make this detour because I could see that the main route was clear far ahead. My other gripe is that lack of control over the interface leads to annoyances. While you now have more control over what problems it reports (finally, no more “car on the side of the road” alerts!), it seems to ignore the setting for distance, often reporting “Police 25 miles ahead” when they aren’t even on your route. Also, while the speedometer is very useful, there is no way to change the size or default colors (white below speed limit, red above), so it is often impossible to read. Bottom line: worth giving a try, but don’t ditch Google maps, and watch out for occasionally nutty directions.

Waze is a life saver... AND my time saver!. I wish Waze was around when I was much younger and had a need for speed. I cannot express my gratitude enough for how many times Waze has saved me from speeding in unfamiliar areas local or when traveling... of course, not to mention how many times it has saved me from cops or speed traps up ahead! Even when I am familiar with all the short cuts and back roads in my hometown, there has been a few times where I did not trust Waze when it said that the alternative route(s) would be faster to my destination. It catches all the traffic, accidents, road closures and construction that may delay you to your destination. Well needless to say I’ve learned my lesson and will forever trust my Waze regardless if I know a shorter route or not. It is always precisely on time with your ETA. Share your ETA with friends so they can actually see you in route. Plan trips to get there on time if you are unsure of traffic or delays. The fun part is you can even record your own voice as a navigation guide. Don’t be late! Just do it | Trust Waze! Yours Truly, ThatTXGiRL || ATXGRL ||

Makes driving more difficult tbh. My first problem with this app is that it would change routes on me all of the sudden, it was frustrating and I don’t need that kind of distraction - you can’t expect me to keep my eyes glued onto my phone to watch if it changed routes. Like at least let me know before hand that the route was changed. I deleted the app but then decided to give it a second chance because I like the community aspect of it. I like how it told me what areas were slow, where construction was, where police were, as well as comments from other divers. While driving I came across an accident, traffic was slow because they closed down a lane so I decided to report it... only to come to find I didn’t know how to. I obviously couldn’t take the time to figure it out since I was driving so when I got home I figured it out. Apparently you can only report an accident if you are in the area..... AND driving. Why would I try to report something while driving? Sorry Waze, I gave you a chance but I like to drive safe. Only way I could see this being a good app is if you’re driving with someone else who can do it for you or if you let us report things when we’re not in the area and not driving .... and let us know when you switch a route for god’s sake

Too many miscalculations. I sometimes use Waze but I’ve found google maps to be more accurate. I used to use waze all the time because it was great around traffic but now it seems like something in the system is messed up. Reviews won’t let me add pictures, but this morning for example it told me to take an exit 3 miles past the one I normally take for work, putting me at work at 8:07 and when I took the one I normally take (because traffic was completely clear) and the system rerouted it put me at work at 7:54. This is not the first time this has happened either. Also I have found that if you have destinations saved for work and home it routes you to those locations super quickly, but if you try to put in a new location (regardless of the distance away) it takes forever to load and sometimes even times out. My favorite feature of waze is the ability to plan a route telling me what time to leave to get there at a certain time and for the most part this feature works but going a long distance that you don’t normally drive and planning for it the next day doesn’t work. The request times out.

Generally love the app; but...... The app is great in offering users real-time information on what is going on on the roads (accidents, police activity, construction, etc.) and it is good at working out alternate routes for getting you to your destination as quickly as possible. The one downside to the app (for me) is that if you don’t have the app set to automatically update (which I don’t do because my phone would constantly be updating if I had that option set), the app has a bad habit of not working until you download the latest update. I appreciate that in order to stay on top of the roadmap industry Waze has to update frequently. However, I wish that the app would alert users that an update is available, with the caveat that if they are using an outdated version then not all road information will be correct and advise users to update as soon as possible, while still allowing them to use the outdated version in the meantime. I say this because when I am trying to go somewhere and need gps guidance to get me there, I don’t always have time to sit there while my phone conducts those updates.

Waze has flaked out since last update. I have always been a huge fan of Waze and recommended it to others on a regular basis. I would have given it five stars. But in the last couple weeks, as it seems since the last update, it has lost its accuracy. It is taking me into traffic jams on a regular basis and redirecting me when there is no problem as I can see the freeway from the new route & it is traveling faster than I am. Warning of hazards has diminished in accuracy also. There has always been a problem with Waze sometimes not giving enough notice to get off the route when there is a problem I had resulting in me losing the opportunity to avoid the traffic jam. I have never understood this issue because when I’m on a route and have to make a turn ahead, Waze alerts me incessantly about the upcoming turn. This is particularly irritating when it’s a route that I drive all of the time. I thought Waze was supposed to learn about my usual routes. It also does not seem to learn that I have a preference for a different route in my neighborhood and is always trying to redirect me to its route which is not any faster and has some other shortcomings.

No GPS. Used to be my GPS of choice with real time road reports; I even relied on the display that shows how fast you are going. Now GPS is extremely spotty, to the point of having no GPS, with the constant message, “No GPS. Showing approximate location.” No fix has worked with this, and I’ve had to transition to Google Maps and Apple Maps, neither of which was ever a favorite, but as they actually show GPS, are now far superior. The past few updates have also made the app less user friendly; for some reason they think users need things to be more complicated with more buttons and bows. The pure simplicity of reporting road hazards, of changing routes, or even trying to see what’s further ahead were simple and easy to get to, however now they are now an actual distraction and have smaller displays, so I simply don’t use them, don't report anything, and don’t thank anyone — well, since I can’t actually use the app because it doesn’t show any GPS, this is not an issue, is it? Final synopsis, it’s a good app if you can actually get the GPS to work, if a bit less user friendly than it used to be, and normally I’d definitely recommend over Apple or Google Maps. They need to keep in mind, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” because the last few fixes completely broke it.

Sadly, not the app it used to be for saving time. I’ve been using Waze for over ten years. Great in its early days, it would pick optimal routes on & off freeways to avoid traffic tie-ups, etc. In the last year had got downright horrible, mainly use it only for crowd-sourced warnings of speed traps now. Somebody changed the overriding priority in navigation to drive it primarily towards freeways, US Routes, etc, when many times a secondary road is the best option. Over the past summer I’ve used it on routes I drive all the time just to see what the software would do. For a usual 45 minute route across the city on a combination of freeway & secondary roads, Waze would continually try to reroute me many miles out of the way just to take me to an interstate which I could see on other apps like sig-alert had standstill traffic (which I knew from living here was a daily event at certain times). Had I followed Waze, that 45 minute drive would have taken an hour and a half. The settings only allow a binary choice—either be able to use freeways or avoid them entirely. What happened to the old Waze software that would judiciously take you off a Highway to avoid traffic snarls ahead?

Tremendous!. It’s beyond user friendly and all of the content is submitted by users. You can report literally any condition on the road. From downed power lines, major accidents, and all the way to road kill. You can also report a problem with the map (like I did) and someone will actually contact you as to what the map should look like. I reported a problem with the way my neighborhood was mapped because people kept getting lost. Within 24 hours, a map editor got in contact with me. I was even able to send him a video of how my neighborhood is mapped out. He took that video and compared it with satellite images and he fixed the issue. Now, people will be led to within five feet of my front door instead of across the street. You can also chat with other drivers. If there is an accident and you report it, you can add a message on it saying which lanes are blocked. Everyone can see that and it has also been known to help emergency responders get to an accident more efficiently. I’ve had it for nine months and I’m STILL discovering all of the stuff Waze can do. And the best part? It is 100% free.

Overall it’s a good app. There are still times where it can’t figure out how to make a route to anywhere over 60 miles, or it times out. It also has not been picking the quickest route lately either. It’s tried taking me some really odd ways lately for no reason, and I’ve tried having it open when I go to my normal spots in hopes it learns my routes, but it doesn’t. But it’s still because it helps me avoid traffic, accidents, contraction and shows me my speed and tells me where police are sitting. On a different note, I wouldn’t mind seeing the app have a start time for either the trip or when you turned it on if you aren’t using it to plot your way somewhere. Such as I put my work address in to help avoid traffic in DC and when I get to work, I’m always curious to when I actually left home and how long it took me to get there for different routes, but I always forget when I leave home exactly, so I always guesstimate and can never figure out which route is fastest lol it would also be cool to see how long the app has been on and running in general, such as ‘opened at 6:30 am’ kind of thing. I hope I made some sense with that lol

Inconsistent in finding Routes and Addresses. This has been happening for quite awhile. Even when addresses and routes were found in the past, the Waze comes back with errors more times than it should that it can’t find the address or route(s) to said address. Why does this happen sporadically? More times than not this happens with rural addresses; however, others have never generated an error finding them. Rerouting due to construction etc. is also a bit lackluster. The app continually tries to veer you off your track so most times you end up ignoring it. Sure it’s great in some ways but more work needs to be done to make sure the data points are accurate and consistent. There should be a deploy for fixing these issues but update after update and the glitch still continues. And yes it totally drains your battery so make sure you’re charging as you use it for sure. And if you share your ride the other person most likely will not be able to view your trip. Even if they too have the Waze app on their phone. So many problems. Waze really should consider getting additional staff and really make an effort to fix issues immediately.

Edit maps. Can't edit the map on my browsers to add a parking area around a building of where I work. It just keeps loading and loading and loading. Never getting to the map so that I can edit/add. Please fix. Another problem I have, is that the app keeps connecting to my car's SYNC system. I get no navigation voice when listening to the radio. And I can't play my music through my phone to SYNC and have navigation voice from my phone at the same time. Just doesn't work. Never let it to navigate around a slow traffic just to get back on the same road through a stop sign instead of stop light. Ended up several cars behind the cars that was behind me. Also, have a selection of having no u-turns allowed even if using a block to do so. Need to be 1,000 feet before making a turn, no turn is to be suggested under that distance, could cause an accident. Need to be able to block a road that this app wants to navigate through. I know a road by my house that has very heavy traffic during certain times of the day.

Trip Suggestions vs. Planned Drives. Overall, excellent navigation app. But, the introduction of Trip Suggestions has made worse an already frustrating problem: there are too many ways to pick a destination and none of them pay attention to each other. For example: I open Waze and it makes a Trip Suggestion to drive to work. That card has opened in front of the Planned Trip notification asking me if I want to drive to work based on my calendar. I want to drive to work, so I tap the trip suggestion, which starts calculating a route. But, because the planned trip notification has timed out, now _that_ is starting to plan a route, interrupting the route I just picked and delaying the actual delivery of the route. And this example assumes that I effectively chose the same route both ways… what if I used a Siri shortcut to pick a route… or chose an unscheduled suggested trip? Now my choice is being interrupted by the default planned trip incorrectly. There has got to be a single route selection manager, and the user’s input has to trump/stop/disable all automatically selected routes.

Really good, some quirks. Love the app. Seemingly without provocation, it asks me what I want. This part should go away if you say NOTHING. Or ERROR. But no, I have to tap the screen to cancel that while I am trying to pay attention to driving. Also, it mysteriously turns totally black at times. Nothing on the screen. I restart it and the same thing happen sometimes three times in a row. If they could work out these little bugs, that would be great. It also is not very clear when you're trying to alert other people about police, or accidents, or things along the roadside, whether the alert gets put in when you finally get finished pushing all of the buttons for the location where you are then, a mile down the road, or for the location where you started. An easier tutorial on educating it to voice commands would be way faster. I would much rather yell HEY WAZE--POLICE HIDDEN OTHER SIDE than tap at my screen a lot while driving. But a lot of users seem to be figuring it out as I get 90% useful info and it is by far the best traffic alert app out there. Update 2018: now it also seems to be totally quiet even when I turn the voice on many times.

Sad. This used to my best way of avoiding traffic as I commute in the busy Boston area. Worked great until a little while ago when it stopped working. Now it sends me weird ways that are NOT avoiding traffic but instead turning me in to it. Ironically (or not) it seems to be pushing me lately near shops and businesses that I visit online which makes me believe that it is pointing me towards Google's sponsors and are tracking the sites I visit rather than helping me avoid traffic which was the original intended purpose. This is further cemented in my mind as the app is also showing ads for places I frequent. I'm not even one of those paranoid people who think that everyone is watching their every move. My point in this rant... Get it together Google/Waze. I loved this app once. I would even be willing to pay for the service if you got rid of the ads and got me to my destination the fastest way. Oh! And I have also proven my point by sometimes ignoring the turn you want me to make knowing there will probably be less traffic and watched my arrival time get quicker and quicker. End of rant. Five Stars again when you put the drivers first again rather than your sponsors. Edit... Now I really wish I could give 0 stars. No response from developer on this nor to my support request through the app. So... Thanks for not getting back to me and you have lost yet another user... Wake up Waze!

I wonder if waze gets paid for directing people to toll roads?. I recently went on a trip and wanted a reliable map app to use. My wife suggested that I download and use waze. I downloaded it and used it for the trip. I went to Dallas, TX and Dallas has a ton of toll roads. Lucky for me I was traveling at a not so busy time of day, so regular roads are only a few minutes longer than taking the toll roads. I typed in my location and selected the non toll option. Multiple times waze would auto re-route and tell me to get on a toll road. Luckily, each time it did this I saw the toll sign and did not get on the toll road. After I would skip the toll entrance it would change the route back to the original “no toll” route. I gave it the benefit of the doubt and tried it one more time on the way out of town and wouldn’t you know, it directed me to a toll road. The on ramp I used did not have a sign until I was halfway down the on ramp. I ended up getting tricked onto the toll road. Is waze going to pay my toll? NO. Am I ever going to use waze again? NO. Do they need to fix the app to avoid tolls no matter what once you have selected the option to avoid tolls? YES. My only question is does waze get a cutback for directing people onto toll roads 🤔

Waze now unusable - doesn’t work. I have been using Waze for hours a day faithfully since it first came out. I have well over 100 people who I have convinced to use it over this time. About two months ago (+ -) it abruptly stopped working (completely useless) about 90% of the time. Six werks ago Waze had me on a street level detour through a very unsavory part of L.A. (think Reginal Denny and Rodney King) and simply stopped working, leaving me undirected (in the middle of the crypt’s living room). I was guided out by Apple maps which worked flawlessly) I have uninstalled and reinstalled multiple times. Tried hard reboots too. The same thing is happening with my wife and others we know. I keep trying to plot a route but keep getting “failed to communicate with routing server”. I then tried the Apple maps built in GPS app which works flawlessly every time. Unfortunately I have been forced to no longer use Waze, which bums me out a lot because I am a dedicated “since inception” Waze advocate and user. I think Waze has a major flaw and is doing an amazing PR job in covering up these issues. I keep expecting Waze to have an update to fix the issues, but no. I don’t think they will ever admit to the huge flaw, and therefore will not publicly announce when they have fixed the huge flaw.

Not the app it once was. This app used to be the best bet for beating horrible city traffic, finding the best routes for long drives, and optimizing efficiency on city-street-drives. But very recently, within the last few weeks, I’ve noticed that when I need to go anywhere more than 30 or 40 miles away (sometimes less) especially during rush hour or peak traffic times (which is when you need the help the most), the app gives me errors messages like “unable to connect to routing server” or “something went wrong” and it just won’t calculate my route... AT ALL. I’ve actually had to resort to using the native Apple Maps app on my phone lately.... and that was something I abandoned like three years ago. Waze, just last year, was able to route an inter- state trip I went on, with no problems. Now it can’t even get me to the next city over during rush hour. Hey Waze executives... INVEST IN SOME BETTER SERVER FARMS!! No one cares what you can do at 3 AM or 12:15 PM... you need to work at 7 AM and 5:30 PM. If you are falling victim to your own popularity and success (aka, you can’t handle the traffic on your own network, no pun intended), then either upgrade your infrastructure and bandwidth, or bow out and let Google Maps or Apple Maps take over.

Did Waze lose the way?. I’ve been a daily user of the app for 6 years. 1) At some point over the last 2-4 months Waze seems to have slipped on reliably finding the fastest route. It used to be that I could practically never pick my own route that would beat Waze’s ETA. Then overnight the algorithm seems to have broken. Now I can often shave minutes off by taking a side street around a traffic light that is always backed up or something similar. I just passed up my exit in favor of a different route and shaved 4 minutes off my trip to Houston after Waze recalculated. All through June I played a game with my daughter on the way to summer camp: How many minutes can dad shave off of Waze. On the 19 miles to Camp, my average was 5 minutes, using the same shortcuts 20 days in a row. YOU’RE LOSING WHAT MADE YOU BETTER THAN APPLE AND GOOGLE. My guess is in an effort to streamline the algorithm (to save computing cycles due to an explosion of user load?) you’re ignoring some potential routes and you’ve lost something essential. 2) Bring back fastest/shortest. It matters for people driving electric vehicles. Or create an EV mode that will help minimize total kW used from A to B. It also matters for motorcyclists who’d rather not get on the 80mph Texas freeway.

Crashes CONSTANTLY. This is the only review I’ve written for an app because it is just that bad. I used to love this app and use it daily to avoid traffic when driving to/from work but in the past couple of months it’s become impossible to use. It crashes CONSTANTLY - like every time I lock my phone. I will literally be driving down the highway not even 5 minutes after I started a new drive on Waze and realize it hasn’t been talking to me. Sure enough: I check the app and it’s crashed so I have to restart it! Super safe for an app that people use while they’re driving! I would never count on this app to get me anywhere I was not somewhat familiar with. Do not use this app if you’re going on a road trip or anywhere you’re unfamiliar with. Not only does it crash constantly, but there have been multiple times recently when the app told me to change routes during a drive and the route they told me to take was SIGNIFICANTLY LONGER than the one they told me to take initially. It literally makes no sense because my app is currently up to date and still crashing constantly. Even just from an “avoiding traffic” aspect, this app has no use anymore because it can’t tell me when to avoid traffic since it crashes before it can tell me to switch routes.

WAZE is the WAYYYY. WAZE- my “go to map” for every destination! I use it for new places I am venturing to for directions. My favorite part about it though is how I use it for places that I drive everyday like my home, work, or a friends house. I plus in the address and it tells me which route is the fastest to my location. It even will detour my typical highway route home to avoid backed up traffic jams, wrecks , or construction and then beer me back to the highway when it gets to the area of being cleared up again to drive faster. It shows me all the traffic and their current speed, any cops out, debris on the road, construction, and even large potholes! I would like to personally thank whoever invented this specific map/ gps. You have actually saved me and my family a lot of headaches, time that could be spent doing other things, and tires/ alignment/ suspension on my car, and honestly giving me a better chance of going to heaven since I am not cussing everyone out with my road rage in traffic! Laughing out loud but it’s really true! Great app!!!! Keep it movin and groovin, y’all!!!!😉

Great app. I gave this 4 stars only because of how many times you have to press something to report it. I quick button or favorite would be great. Example: I live in a very rural area. I use this to mark deer on the roads for my coworkers that are behind me. I have to press 5 buttons in order to mark them. It's a dark and winding road with lots of deer so this is dangerous or it takes a while for me to get it marked. A quick button on the map screen for animals on the road would be fantastic. When I see a deer, I can just press that button and boom, it's done. Of course this could be a customization for people and maybe have a couple spots for quick buttons. That's just one that I use very often (10 to 15 times in 25 miles). I know others have their most frequent buttons they use. Two or three buttons across the bottom or left side would not hurt anything. You can even make them smaller like the size of the compass. P.S. if points are not accumulating, write a review and they will appear. I’ve done that twice. lol Waze, what is happening with the points? They have it updated in a while, again. Come on Waze, I live for these points! I live for these rankings. I need updated!!

Using Waze for 6 years.. I’ve been using Waze for about 6 years and there have been a lot of great improvements in that time. I only have a few gripes about it atm. First off it’s kinda annoying when it automatically navigates you to a location like your home. I do not have a normal commute being a contractor. So I head home at different times in the day. So what happens when I’m entering a new address to drive to it interrupts me when I’m still punching the address in. At times I’ve been mistaken when the address I just entered was where I was heading, when in reality it had already decided I wanted to go home. I wish this function was optional! The second issue is waze will take you to the completely wrong location because it didn’t find the address you where looking for so it will say let’s go and when you get close it’s just the street and not a house number. Or it will add a NE at the end without you noticing it. I’ve spent a lot of time having to navigate to the right address using google or Apple maps. But I continue to use waze because it is helpful in the city getting around wrecks and jams! P.S. it destroys your battery life! Absolute must to have it charging while navigating.

I’d give negative stars if I could.. Drove from CT to VA for a birthday trip with my mom. Used Waze to help alert for traffic and accidents. Left at 7:50am. We were on the NJ turnpike a few hours later when we hit completely stopped traffic. Waze did not alert me to the traffic times. Did not tell me there was a shorter way around. Did not find out until we were stuck on a section with no exits that there was a problem. Waze said it would be 22 minutes in traffic. Again, we were stuck before it said this. After 30 minutes we were wondering why we hadn’t moved. We had passed an accident and thought this traffic was from a construction site. After another 20 minutes Waze turned off. I turned it back on and now it said another 70 minutes in traffic. I found out online that there was a bad accident at about 8am that shut down the highway. It now open to one lane. In the 3 hours that we were already on the road, Waze should have told me that there was a 2 hour delay in our route and to take 295 which was the exit right before the traffic congestion. It had plenty of time to update drivers. We were 2 hours late to our destination because of the Waze app. I deleted the app and will NEVER use again. We were so late to the destination we weren’t able to do anything.

Great app. I mostly love Waze. It really helps to navigate around traffic tie ups. However, it doesn't send you via the safest route. I've experienced times where it sends me up a side street only to have to try to get across a busy intersection when I could have gone one block more and been at a traffic light where it would be safe and faster to cross or make a left. It also does weird things like tell you to get on a busy highway during rush hour when you could just continue a few blocks on the side street and be at your destination. Another example of a scary situation is that when you take exit 11 off the NJ Tpk to the Garden State Parkway South, Waze says stay to the right. Then after you're thru the toll, it's says stay to the left. Now you're trying to merge left through tons of traffic to make the exit in a very short distance. Not at all safe. Just saying object in road ahead makes me aware that there's a hazard. However, it would be great if I knew on what side of the highway an obstacle was so I can get into a safer lane ahead of time to avoid it. Thanks for all the help getting me through unfamiliar territory!

Useful but some issues. I use Waze as an interface with my Uber Driver app. I’ve found Waze to be more accurate than Google Maps and Uber’s navigation. That being said some issues that should be fixed: bring back the option of allowing the rider to specify fastest or most direct route. It’s aggravating to have Waze out you in a freeway only to take the first exit when you could have stayed on city streets and gotten to your destination in the same timeframe. It also frequently makes you make a left hand turn onto a busy road which is very dangerous. I’ve noticed an inordinate delay in calculating routes as well. Not being able to alphabetize your favorites is just plain silly. I’ve also noticed that the voice frequently pronounces “Avenue” as “Abmu” Another aggravation is being directed to go around the block to go in the opposite direction when you could have been instructed to if safe, turn around at your starting point. The system also frequently fails to recognize when a freeway lane has branched off onto another highway when both roads run parallel to each other. Get busy developers and fix these quirks!

All Alerts gone!. Something's definitely changed! No hazards show up. No police show up. A few wazers show up, but no alerts at all. I've driven to and from work for a week now without a single alert! And that's impossible. There are hazards everywhere on the freeway on my commute, every day. But they've stopped showing up. AND, when I post, they show up for a second and then vanished! Hopefully this is something I'm doing wrong, cuz I love this app! Well... When it works. OLD REVIEW I try to be a very conscientious driver. You know, thinking a few seconds into the future to be ready for what might happen. This app is the perfect companion to that kind of driving. It almost always eliminates surprises related to hazards, the over-reactors who slam on their brakes at the sight of a police car, or slow traffic. It's almost like having a crystal ball! Almost. The reason for only 4 stars is that the app doesn't always put icons on the correct side of the road, as in the case of a divided highway, where I indicate "Other Side". But if greater concern is that sometimes the countdown timer for a hazard begins when the hazard is still WAY ahead of me. Not behind, but ahead. I lose my chance to confirm a hazard before I can even see it! Aside from those two annoyances, great app!

Ridiculous. “Support” for this app is a joke. Updates completely mess up the ease of utilization. I had been a user for some years, and after an update the app decided not to work anymore. It continually said “error with connection. Check your service and try again later.” There was absolutely nothing wrong with my service, as I was utilizing the internet, Pandora, and my banks app all just fine. I restart my phone, still the same thing. I can’t reach out to “support” at that point because the app won’t open! What else am I supposed to do other than to delete & re-download. Low & behold, when the app asks for your phone number when you register, it doesn’t mean anything. It completely erased EVERYTHING I had before. “Support” told me to log in with a phone number, well guess what that’s not even an option. Then they say, oh well, “We value our users' privacy and wish to protect the information associated with each account (recent drives, favorites, etc.). Because of this, we are unable to grant access to accounts that don’t have a linked email address and ask you to please create a new user.” Really? You can’t recognize my name, phone number and photo that was associated with the previous account? What good is a security system that only includes an email? Complete, utter, joke.

Disappointed. I am very disappointed with this app, when I first downloaded it about a year I absolutely loved it. I loved all the traffic cameras and conditions notifications. As time went by the app began deteriorating. It would crash on me often and I would have to delete and re-download. It often makes me drive in circles, literally. Just today I was late to a very important appointment, what was meant to be a 25 minute drive turned to an hour. Legit made me circulate a street three times and as always notified me very last minute. While driving I depend on voice over but I constantly catch myself reaching for the phone because of how delayed the voice directions are. I’ve missed many exits because of this. I always give it the benefit of the doubt and hope for all the bugs to be fixed and yet I find myself circulating areas or taking unnecessary drives to get where I need to. I only drove three miles around my house only to end up back on the Main Street, and take my usual route to work. I am wasting gas and time. I officially am retiring my app and will depend on Apple maps instead, Waze has so more potential and I hope they will work to fix all these issues. In the mean time I am done giving it second and more chances.

Does not connect to contacts. I’ve been usung this app for years and I’ve loved it. But they had an update at some point and now it’s such a PAIN to connect your contacts to the app, actually I haven’t been able to connect it for some months now. I used to be able to just type in a contact and the app will pull that contact’s address then it’s done. Now, I have to copy paste addresses and you can imagine how unsafe and frustrating it is to do this when you’re already on the road and already driving. Sometimes the app crashes and freezes so I have to close it and renavigate, how do they expect me to do all this copy pasting while driving? Before, all I had to do was enter a contact’s name. I’ve googled this and it seems to be an ongoing problem since last year. All the articles are of “tricks” you can do to make the app connect to your contacts. Although it was annoying that I had to “trick” an app to perform something it was supposed to in the first place, I still tried it but nope it didn’t work. I’m honestly just so frustrated about this. Not quite sure why they haven’t fixed it cause it truly is such a headache that anybody I know who used this app is now deleting it because of this. I love the live traffic feature but oh my GOD is this glitch so annoying and so counter productive.

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Language English
Price Free
Adult Rating 4+ years and older
Current Version 4.101
Play Store com.waze.iphone
Compatibility iOS 15.0 or later

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The application Waze Navigation & Live Traffic was published in the category Navigation on 01 August 2009, Saturday and was developed by Waze Inc. [Developer ID: 323229109]. This program file size is 187.57 MB. This app has been rated by 2,995,545 users and has a rating of 4.8 out of 5. Waze Navigation & Live Traffic - Navigation app posted on 29 January 2024, Monday current version is 4.101 and works well on iOS 15.0 and higher versions. Google Play ID: com.waze.iphone. Languages supported by the app:

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