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  1. Verbal & written notification from Waze as to why a planned route was automatically changed while driving said planned route.

    Like most people, I have been misguided by GPS service devices before, so I am very cautious & maybe even doubtful when a pre planned route, traveled many times, is altered midstream with “no” explanation. It would be a great improvement if Waze changes a pre planned route for reasons such as accident delays, construction or detour delays, etc, to announce a route change verbally and/or written, a changed in the route & why so me, the driver doesn’t believe my guidance app suddenly got hacked or quit working.

    2 votes
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  2. Overview not working with carplay since last update. Bring it back.

    Overview not working with carplay since last update. Bring it back.

    1 vote
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  3. Android Auto Search Navigation is clunky

    When searching and entering in text (from phone or car), once you have presented a list of possibilities, in order to select one I have to press “Up” to get out of the text entry; this then selects the “task bar” so I press “Right” to get back to Waze; and then I have to dial down to the desired item before finally clicking on it. At the very least “Up” should exit the text entry and jump immediately to the first item on your list. Even better, something like “Down” could exit the text entry and automatically select the…

    1 vote
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  4. Display of Traffic Lights, Stop Signs and other signs.

    Can you please add an option to enable view for traffic lights, stop signs and other important road signs.

    496 votes
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  5. Alerta de assalto

    Bom dia.

    Utilizo o waze na cidade de São Paulo/Brasil. Aqui diariamente presenciamos, no trânsito, vários assaltos em carros parados no trânsito intenso. Dessa forma, sugiro haver um alerta para assalto. Assim, as pessoas poderiam alertar outras que em determinada via ocorreu um assalto. As pessoas poderiam evitar a via ou prestar muito mais atenção na movimentação. Além disso, as próprias emissoras de TV que mostram o trânsito pela manhã, usando o waze, poderiam mostrar esses alertas, o que daria mais publicidade para o fato, podendo chegar até mesmo aos policiais na região.

    1 vote
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  6. BRING BACK THE SEARCH FUNCTION!!!

    It used to be that if you said "navigate to Walmart" in Android Auto it would show a list of nearby walmarts and you could chose the correct one. Now it just routes you to some random one that is often not even close to the one you intended. It routed me to a Top Golf 8h away once when the one I was trying to get to was 10min. Its like they are trying to get people off the app deleting critical functions.

    3 votes
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  7. Search bar on Waze app when using Android auto

    When using Android auto, Waze app on the phone is disabled except for popping up with the search bar to enable phone-typing of addresses. Could you add the search bar on the "Using Waze on Android Auto" screen by default on the phone app to make it quicker to get to the phone keyboard instead of having to first click search on Android auto and then being redirected to the phone to type addresses

    34 votes
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  8. Autodetect closures and closed roads

    Waze should automatically detect closures and close roads without relying on Wazers to use the in-app closure function or on map editors to add them. Just as Waze can detect traffic and reroute, it could also detect when no one follows the directed guidance and there is zero traffic on a segment. Then when Wazer start driving on the segment again it could reopen.

    Google Maps (part of Google Geo) gets closure info from Waze. And Waze (part of Google Geo) should also get closure info from Google Maps. It doesn't now, and instead will route Wazers into a closed…

    78 votes
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  9. Information

    Is there any way when you change the route an reroute us you could tell us why so we can make a choice as what to do. I’ve been rerouted to some really sketchy roads and when driving alone it can be a bit scary.

    1 vote
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  10. Split-screen view in CarPlay

    On a long trip, it’s nice to see how far along you are on the full route - but there’s not a lot of need for turn-by-turn on the highway. Please make a view that uses some of the large available space in CarPlay mode to show the “route overview” map next to the turn-by-turn.

    2 votes
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  11. Search results not close to my location.

    Usually, the first few search results are hundreds or even thousands of kilometres / miles from my location. Search results should default to the closest to me, unless I add more details on the search location, like town/city.

    96 votes
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  12. Voice activated map chat

    Voice activated map chat. I get notifications that there is an object in the road. But I'm on a six-lane highway. Where is that object. Voice activated map chat would make it easy to be more specific and identifying the object. Just as an example.

    2 votes
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  13. Detour update

    I use Waze everytime I travel. It's a great app and very user friendly. However when it sends you on a detour (ex: because of construction or an accident ahead), it should say why it's changed (why your taking a detour) your original path. I was traveling by myself over night and didn't take the detour, because I was uncomfortable and unfamiliar with the detour it suggested) to take and got stuck in a construction traffic jam.

    14 votes
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  14. Give reason for suggested route change.

    1. Have tone or spoken message that there is a suggested route change to draw your attention to something on the screen.
    2. Have the message stay on screen until acknowledged.
    3. Have default to stay on selected route, if reason is just quicker by a few minutes or shorter.
    4. Only change route IF traffic is blocked or significant delay due to accident or some other non normal event.
    2 votes
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  15. Android auto search results too dark

    When searching in Android auto, the result is shown on the map where the rest of it is dimmed. When it's sunny, it's hard to read the rest of the map to tell whether it's the right spot.

    1 vote
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  16. Route overview on Android auto

    Add the route overview using Android Auto on the car display. This function it's only available using the smartphone app.

    13 votes
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  17. Notify customer reason for a route change

    Can feature inform drivers reason for route change e.g. accident, standstill traffic, etc

    4 votes
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  18. Search - Improve Results with Google Results (Android Auto)

    Often when searching for a full address in Waze, it at times produces a list of random street names of which the one you entered is often down the list for some reason... this is especially true when using Android Auto. On the phone, you can often click "Google" Results tab that will lock on the address right way but on Android Auto this is not an option...

    It would be nice if there was any confusion with an address or if Waze does not know what it is that they would automatically fall back to Google on Android Auto…

    3 votes
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  19. Voice search button for destinations using apple carplay.

    Carplay voice input was taken away (microphone icon). I can no longer search via voice for directions to any place. Now I can only use iphone maps or google maps. Seems strange to remove a vital feature as now I cannot get directions to places with my voice.

    8 votes
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  20. Apple CarPlay microphone feature

    Bring back the microphone feature in Apple CarPlay

    40 votes
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