Ability to select the types of hazards to enable/disable
Sometimes, certain hazards are not very helpful and are more of a distraction than anything. For example, vehicles stopped on the shoulder, weather, and missing sign are not very important and I dismiss them every time I see it. At times I feel like disabling hazards altogether.

Great news! The ability to disable individual alert notifications is now available in Waze. Install the latest app version to check it out.
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Anonymous commented
How to turn it off?????
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David Watson commented
These red light camera alerts are my most hated feature of Waze by far. Not having the ability to disable them is incredibly frustrating. It pisses me off every day. I hate it so much. I’m not an idiot. When the light is red, I stop. I don’t need to be reminded by waze every single time that there’s a camera. As if I would just blow through a Red light. Please. For the love of god, simply add a feature for us to turn it off. I really don’t understand why there isn’t one. Ugh.
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Anonymous commented
We hate this annoying feature! Dont use Waze as much anymore as we get tired of hearing it. Please let us turn it off and people, PLEASE STOP alerting us to vehicle stopped on shoulder. Thx!
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Michelle commented
It would be nice to be able to mute the notification but still have the map directions play.
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Rarebit commented
This option already exists, check Settings... then go into "Display & map", then push "Alerts on route" and deselect the ones you don't want to hear anymore.
So don't vote for this, it's already in.
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Anonymous commented
cars on shoulder are no threat. they are on the shoulder not the road, please disable this silly and distracting alert
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Rahman commented
It is 100% intentional that this has not been added. Given that this exact thing is the cause of the majority of the people who stop using the app to do so- you'd think they would have fixed it by now!
I stopped using Waze for anything other than periodic use about a week after I got it; had they fixed this ridiculous shortcoming I would drive with it every day, all the time.
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Jimmie Brown Jr commented
I hate the watch out, vehicle on the side of the road. And at times it is hard to see an address, it needs to say what side of the road your destination is on. I also wish we could have more options on voices also. I loved the C3PO, that was cool for 3 days.
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Mike commented
Agree give me the ability to choose to turn this annoying alert off
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Otanjac Razvan Mihai commented
Fuck you to the one with the brilliant red camera popup idea. Die!
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JDP commented
NEED TO BE ABLE TO TURN RED LIGHT CAMERA NOTIFICATION OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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marianna. commented
Why doesn't the Red light camera audio sound alert work on waze anymore? It always warned me when approaching a Red light light camera then it suddenly stopped.
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Eric Heitzman commented
I'll bet this doesn't get many votes, because it's soooo annoying that people literally stop using the app and never use it again.
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yoel commented
If it can be added to the settings, it'll be great. Since it should be a custom audio mode. For example, I don't want to hear "hazard ahead", which people tend to report all the time.
Another option is to divide such alerts with priority. For example car which is stuck in the middle of the road is not the same as the alert about a car which is on the side of the road... (currently, no way to separate) -
yoel commented
אני משתמש כמעט כל יום ב-ווייז, וברוב הפעמים אני משתמש במצב "שקט - התראות בלבד", כדי שאוכל ותוך כדי להקשיב לפודקאסט, אך עדיין אקבל התרעות בנוגע לכביש חשובות בזמן אמת,מכיוון שאת הדרך אני מכיר בעל פה.
הבעיה היא, שאנשים מדווחים על "מפגע בדרך" על כל דבר קטן שיש באזור הכביש, כאשר בחלק גדול מהפעמים ה"מפגע" איננו באמת על הכביש - עמוק בשוליים או על אי תנועה ועוד...
אשמח אם לכל הפחות תתנו אופציה בגירסה הבאה לבחור אילו התראות יהיו במצב של "התראות בלבד", כי לא כל מה שמוגדר התראה מעניין את הנהג בהכרח.
כמו כן, אולי שווה להפריד את "מפגע בדרך" ל-2 קטגוריות, הראשונה תהיה מפגע על הכביש (והיא תהיה התראה קריטית, כמו אוטו תקוע וכו'), והשניה מפגע באזור הכביש שתהיה עם עדיפות נמוכה יותר.
בנוסף, ההתראה על "עומס תנועה לפניך" קצת מפספסת את הפואנטה לדעתי. האפליקציה מקריאה את ההתראה כשכבר מגיעים לעומס התנועה. ואז זה בטח לא התראה (כי אני כבר מודע לפקק), ולא ברור אם בכלל תורם כי לא מחדש כלום. אם ההתראה על "עומס תנועה לפניך" תגיע לדוגמה 5 שניות לפני, זה עשוי לעזור למנוע תאונות ולהמעיט בבלימות החירום של הנהגים על הכביש.Shortly in English:
1. in the audio mode: "Alerts only" - let the user define which alerts to hear.
2. Separate "Hazard alert" into 2 categories: (1) inside the road. (2) near the road. (Because in the audio mode "Alerts only", I would like to hear only critical alerts).
3. The alert "Traffic ahead" should be hear at least 5 seconds before the traffic. Otherwise it miss the point, I can see the traffic by myself... -
Attila. commented
Please add the ability to remove the red light camera alerts. They are extremely annoying and redundant when you travel the same route every day.
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Todd Stancil commented
If there is a way to do this I apologize but I would love to be able to disable the "vehicle stopped on shoulder ahead" warning. I don't know if it's where I live but there are cars always stopped on the shoulder. I'll be trying to listen to a podcast but I get that warning every 30 seconds or so and even sometimes when the stopped car is on the other side of the interstate. I end up having to turn off Waze to stop the constant interruptions.
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Anonymous commented
Those alerts are so annoying, I stopped using the app over a year ago. I periodically check to see they've added the ability to disable selected alerts. Until they do, I won't use the app again.
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Anonymous commented
100% Agree!!
In addition to have the ability to select alert notification individually would be great! -
Rodrockvet commented
It seams to be so easy to include a able/disable buttom to red light cameras considering Waze complexity...
I don't know why they still don't do it...
The red light camera notifications cover a large part of the screen everytime, disrupting follow of map route.