Waze Navigation & Live Traffic

Waze

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About this app

Know what's ahead on the road with the help from other drivers. Waze is a live map that harnesses the local knowledge of tens of millions of drivers around the world. Drivers safely and confidently reach their everyday destinations thanks to Waze map’s GPS navigation, live traffic updates, real-time safety alerts (including roadworks, accidents, crashes, police, potholes and more), and accurate ETAs.

Make your next drive more predictable and stress-free:
• Get there faster with real-time directions, accurate ETAs and automatic rerouting based on live traffic, incidents and road closures
• Even if you know the way, avoid surprises on the road ahead with safety alerts for accidents, crashes, roadworks, objects on the road, potholes, speed bumps, sharp curves, bad weather, emergency vehicles, railway crossings and more
• Steer clear of tickets by knowing where police and red light and speed cameras are located
• Share what’s happening on the road with other drivers by reporting live incidents and hazards
• Stay informed of upcoming speed limit changes, and keep your speedometer in check
• Know which lane to be in with multi-lane guidance
• See toll pricing and choose to avoid tolls along your routes
• Add road passes and vignettes for HOV lanes and restricted traffic zones
• Find petrol/fuel stations and prices and EV charging stations along your route
• Locate and compare parking lots and their prices near your destination
• Use voice-guided turn-by-turn navigation from a variety of languages, local accents and your favourite celebrities
• Plan your next drive by checking ETAs by future departure or arrival times
• Use your favourite audio apps (for podcasts, music, news, audiobooks) directly within Waze
• Sync Waze to your car’s built-in display through Android Auto

* Some features are not available in all countries

* Waze navigation is not intended for emergency or oversized vehicles

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.

Ratings and reviews

Still better than GoogleMaps, but not as good as before they bought it. The only real "improvement" is purely aesthetic — i.e. all the new "Themes" (voices, moods, & vehicle models). Except most of them are so goofy I doubt anyone even uses them. Other than that, the navigation AI has dropped in quality. The route selections you get aren't as efficient or varied as they used to be; you get MAYBE 3 near-identical options that make zero effort to avoid traffic, if you're lucky. Could be worse tho.

In dark mode landscape, the color of the route and upcoming street are difficult to see. The bottom bar is too thick, the upper left "next turn" rectangle is too big, the actual map is less than half the screen. During navigation, it is zoom out too much, difficult to see the upcoming turns. Older version around 2~3 years ago was the best.

Like the app. I think it would be better if saved addresses populated at the top of the saved-list instead of the bottom and then the user needing to manually drag each to the top. It seems that the last addresses added would tend to be the ones that would be used next. Perhaps another option would be able to change sort, for instance, by date (last in 1st out). Could not f8nd this capability.

What's new

No cord, no problem! Enjoy using Waze Built-in for Google. Check back to see what’s new.