In Light Mode, Waze displays a dark header bar at the top of the screen where turn directions and route details appear. This design choice creates readability and visibility challenges, especially during daytime driving. The dark bar contrasts heavily with the rest of the light interface and can make critical navigation details harder to read in bright sunlight.

Why This Matters:
Quick readability is essential for safe driving. When the header bar is overly dark in Light Mode, glare from sunlight or reflections can make text and icons harder to see. Drivers should not need to squint or strain their eyes to confirm directions. The header’s dark color defeats the purpose of Light Mode, which is intended for high visibility during the day.

Community Concern:
Many users have raised concerns about visibility and contrast issues in forums and feedback channels for years. While map colors in Day Mode can be changed, the header bar remains fixed in a dark color, offering no flexibility for users who need better visibility.

Proposed Solution:
Provide an option to change the header bar color in Light Mode to a lighter shade or allow it to match the overall theme. Alternatively, offer multiple UI theme presets where users can choose a high-visibility header for daytime driving. An accessibility option for improved contrast and brightness would also help drivers with vision sensitivity.

Why Now:
As more drivers rely on Waze during bright daytime conditions, readability and visibility are critical for safety. A customizable or lighter header bar would reduce eye strain and improve the ability to check navigation at a glance without distraction.

Final Request:
Please prioritize this improvement in upcoming updates. Adding flexibility to the Light Mode header bar color will make Waze safer, easier to use, and more accessible for all drivers.

Add the color scheme of the WME (green, blue, purple, yellow) to the dark theme on Waze APP, but a little darker (dark green, dark blue...). Because in the dark mode, both standard and editors color schemes are the same.

Waze keeps the phone navigation bar color light(white) even in the night mode. Modify please the background color of the phone navigation bar to dark(black) according to the waze mode (day/night). It's really annoying to have a white bar next to the waze dark screen. If it's not easy (fast) to modify, it would be much better to keep the navbar background always black like other apps e.g. Whatsapp. Keep it black in the daytime is less irritating like a shining white in the darkness...
Thank you

English:
Please, in night mode, make roads on the map in different colours, something like in the colour scheme "Map editors", but on black background. The map will be more contrast, readable and useful - even if we do not have route.

Български:
Моля, в нощен режим, направете пътищата на картата в различни цветове, нещо като в цветната схема "Картографи", но на черен фон. Картата ще бъде по-контрастна, четлива и полезна - дори да нямаме маршрут.

On the https://embed.waze.com/iframe site there seems to be only a light themed map available. this is quite old hat as most integration engines offer both dark and light.

could we have a dark please?

Did you ever get an answe on this?

When the app is switched to "Night mode", have ALL the menus become dark--not just the map. This would be so helpful when making reports or using the app at night without being blinded.

At night my Android dims when I turn on my headlights and waze dims at night, that is good but, it is still too bright and causes eye strain.I would like to be able to manually adjust the night time brightness level without affecting the full brightness of daytime driving. Brightness is a very subjective feature. What I consider too bright someone else will consider too dim or just right. Make it manual and al wazrs are happy.

If everything in the app is now protected, needing 'root' to get at the files, then the client itself needs a color EDITOR, preferably with import/export functions. The current night mode 'Default' color scheme should be a lot darker. The general background is gray! :( Way too light for night driving.

Please bring back or give the option to change to old "blue" night color scheme. It was much pretier than the new "gray" one. The new one looks like it's a dark rainy day. The old one was just so sexy!

I'm colourblind and really struggle to see the route on the map when it's in night mode. Either a colourblind mode (red route) or the option to specify colours would be ideal.