Include the option of a route with straighter and more direct paths to the destination, with the fewest possible curves.

Please add a ‘Minimum time gain’ setting. If I set 10 minutes, only reroute when the new path saves ≥10 minutes; otherwise keep the current/main route—even if an alternative is slightly faster. This avoids taking a very unpleasant or much longer road just to save a few minutes

Dear Waze Team,

I recently faced an emergency trip from Upstate New York into the city, and I’d like to share how a small feature enhancement could make a big difference. During my drive, Waze suggested an alternate route that involved a smaller highway with traffic lights, usually about 10-15 minutes longer than the main thruway. Because I was in a hurry, I assumed the main route’s delay was minor and chose not to take the exit.

However, once I passed that decision point, I found out the delay was actually close to an hour due to unexpected construction. This turned my urgent trip into a stressful experience, as I ended up being very late.

It would be extremely helpful if Waze could display both how much time I would gain by taking the suggested alternate route and how much I’d lose if I stayed on the original highway route, even before I reach that exit. In emergencies, having that comparison early on would help users make more informed and less stressful decisions.

Thank you for taking the time to consider this suggestion. I’m sure it would be a great help to many others as well.

Best regards,

one problem I have with your app is that it tries to save drive time by making route adjustments to the route. However, saving a few mins isn't worth the drive thru local streets. I'd like the option to maintain original route if the time saved with the rerouting saves less than X mins
I'd prefer the option of sticking to original route.

Yes, please! This is also a matter of safety. Driving alone, it gets dangerous to always have to zoom out and check where is Waze driving me this time.. just to save 1 minute, plus all the unnecessary lane changes added. This, and the option to add personal "no go" spots.. it´s unbelievable we have to beg for them for so many years.

I appreciate the great service Waze provides, but I’d like to request an option to prevent rerouting unless the time savings is at least five minutes.

Currently, Waze sometimes redirects me through unsuitable local roads to save just a minute or two. These roads are often too narrow for through traffic, unsuitable for certain vehicles, or pass through residential areas where children play. This not only creates unnecessary risks but also disrupts local communities.

I’d love the ability to set a threshold for rerouting, ensuring that minor time savings don’t come at the expense of safety and road suitability.

It would be incredibly helpful if you could add something in settings where people have the option to select when to get rerouted based on how much time will be saved. I often do not use the reroute suggestions because when I get rerouted it's literally to save 3 minutes and usually by the time I've taken all the windy side streets to get back onto the highway I haven't actually saved those 3 minutes. It would be nice for me to have a feature where I can select an option to not be rerouted unless I'm going to save 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 20 minutes whatever people want within reason.

There needs to be a better algorithm for choosing between a route with tolls and one without.
From Chicago to Michigan there are 2 major routes. One has No Tolls and the other is $12+. The toll route is always faster. But sometimes only 3 minutes faster. I don’t know anyone that would want the default to pay $12 to save 3 minutes. I’m not sure what the cutoff is, but I would prefer a calculation based on percent added.

Well I guess since this post is more than 8 years old and Waze still constantly tries to reroute me 7 miles out of the way on a complicated route to save 1 minute from my drive, that Waze's suggestion box isn't worth squat. Thanks a million!

I agree with this I would also like it to stop asking every 10 minutes. I drive the same way to work everyday but use Waze for traffic updates, I shouldn’t have to hit no on rerouting 5 times in 30 minutes just to save 1 minute. There should be a way to turn this off because the 1 minute isn’t worth it to me when the route it tries to put me on has worse traffic and makes me dart across 4 lanes of interstate traffic immediately during rush hour.

Totally agree ... I came into this forum to suggest this feature and was pleased to see others thought the same. I particularly hate it when Waze takes me off a highway and onto dangerous winding backroads to save 1 minute!

Tesla has that feature.

Allow user to setup a preferred route to a destination and only change it when time would exceed a set time increase.

For example, I never take any of the suggested route's to and from work. I have a set route that is always within 5 minutes of your suggested routes but has 50% less traffic and includes many back roads etc. But if travel time would increase by 10 minutes then I might take a suggested alternative route

Allow a setting to avoid a toll road if the journey is only x amount quicker (x being defined by the user).

Perhaps the greatest problem with Waze is when the inconvenience of taking a nonstandard route is not proportional to the time savings the new route provides. All too often I’m taken on an insane route in comparison to the normal one just to save two minutes.

I would like to prevent Waze from automatically rerouting (or suggesting an alternative “best route”) unless the new route saves 10 minutes of the total “mainstream” route time.

Perhaps people could choose different thresholds for reroutes.

I hate it when all of a sudden I’m rerouted in traffic on the highway to take the next exit in half a mile and I struggle to get over in bumper-to-bumper traffic just to find out I’m getting off the highway and back on the highway to save 60 seconds.

Sometimes a route changes mid-route. I would like to set a limit thus that the route only changed if the change resulted in a savings (of a length of time I can set). So "only change route if there is a savings of 5 minutes"0

I am for adding options. Users have different likes and dislikes, some don't mind the rerouting and some do, so there should be an option to turn on and turn off rerouting as a part of settings.

I thought to switch bc I hate google maps auto rerouting. Now I see Waze doing the same big brother tactic. Argh. How about you stop trying to control and force my behavior and show me a modicum of respect. There needs to be an option to disable auto rerouting or at least to default it to no. Make the suggestion and if I ignore it, my route doesnt change.

So far, I find no reason to switch from google maps to Waze. No way to turn off auto rerouting. No easy toggle between overview and Re center. No multipl stops. What a disappointment.

Sometimes a reroute saves only a few minutes and it is not worth the hassle of all the twists and turns. Last time it did thus, it took me through an area with multiple blocks if construction and I got a nail in my tire. Fortunately, the ensuing flat tire waited until I was near home. But if it was in the construction area, it could have been very difficult to get service.

I wish I could vote this 1000 times