Pop-up banners hijack CarPlay functionality
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Navigation pop-up banners hijack the functionality of other CarPlay apps. Whenever a Waze banner pops up, it overrides the ability to select any other function in CarPlay. It complicates the simplicity & minimal distraction for which CarPlay is designed. My car has a joystick knob to scroll through & select a CarPlay function, & there is no way to stop these banners from popping up. Turning the knob a click, or selecting one of the console buttons hides the banner for a fraction of a second, but the banner keeps incessantly popping up. When I move my cursor to select a desired function in other apps outside of Waze & quickly get my eyes back on the road, the banner pops up again & clicking selects it instead of what I selected, which takes me back to the Waze app (even while sitting at a red light). Please add an option to control the frequency of pop-up banners, or make them informational only & not an active button that can be selected.
Todd Honeycutt
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Miguel
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When following an active route on CarPlay, the large blue street name banners frequently cover critical parts of the map — roundabouts, junctions, and route forks — making it impossible to see the road layout ahead.
This is not just a visual inconvenience. In my case, a banner completely covered an upcoming roundabout, causing a near-accident. This is a well-documented safety issue reported by the community since at least 2015, yet no option to disable or reduce these banners exists.
Requested feature: a simple toggle in Settings to hide street name banners during active navigation, or at minimum make them semi-transparent so the route remains visible underneath.
Waze's greatest strength is keeping drivers safe. These banners directly contradict that mission.
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Lynn Mudroch commented
I'd like the option to turn off the pop ups completely.
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I understand this is only because the vehicle does not allow for touch functionality but it drove me out of my mind in my mazda cx-30; from my understanding the carplay cert requires touch however you can request an exception which seems to be the case here.