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Is it possible to give us the option, to reduce the time a certain notification appears on the screen? Sometimes 15s are too much
Is it possible to give us the option, to reduce the time a certain notification appears on the screen? Sometimes 15s are too much.
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Turn by turn list directions
When using waze and android auto there is no way to see the turn by turn list of direction like when using the waze app alone. Also, my wife uses apple and carplay and as soon as she connects to waze via carplay her turn by turn list directions appear on her phone screen while the graphical interface of waze appears on the carplay screen simultaneously. Please provide a way to see the list of directions on android auto too. It is very important for planning a trip.
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Roadblockage button in Android Auto missing in screen
If the orange button is hit in Android Auto the road-blockage feature is missing whilst the most essential. This should be added again.
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Accessibility improvements for people with visual disabilities
The Waze app used to be mostly accessible for use with screen readers like VoiceOver for iPhone by people with visual disabilities, such as blindness. However, now the tabs at the bottom are no longer recognised or read by the screen reader. Only location searches and selecting from a list of recent locations are accessible with the screen reader. Please improve the accessibility of this app for use with screen readers And refer to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 for guidance on making these improvements. Thank you
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Real time updating of the driving reference. As for today, the information is static when showed on the screen where the driving refgathered
Real time updating of the driving reference. As for today, the information is static when showed on the screen where the driving references are gathered. It would be great if the distances could be updated in real time and not only be showed/updated every time one click on the driving reference bar.
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Settings for types of alerts to allow
There are many types of alerts the Waze client can display as a layer on the map and/or pop up on your screen, sometimes both visual and audible. We would like to see an new Settings area added for the types of alerts we want to see and/or ignore and never have a notification appear or be heard.
The notifications should include at least, but not necessarily limited to:
Speed cams
Red light cams
Police (speed trap)
Road Hazards
Road segment speed condition
Traffic Jams
Chit Chat
Accident233 votesGreat news! For each type of report/alert you’re able to specify whether you’d like it do be displayed on the route. Accessed via Settings – Alerts&Reports – Reports. What’s more, you can choose area (e.g. 5 km around you) for which reports will be displayed on the map.
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Android Auto improvements - Ease of typing in locations via screen or phone, updating road conditions, etc.
Typing in Locations on the screen of the car (11.6 inch) is cumbersome, and sometimes it switches to the phone then says to type in the car's screen again. Why don't you just allow to use the phone all the time to type?
Providing road updates needs to be better, the small little bubble on the lower right corner is hard to press, maybe a voice activated function would help or place it on the left side and make it bigger?
Screen directions become smaller when a prompt pops up requesting a road incident update. This should not be prioritized…
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Quick-report presets
The amount of phone interaction required for reporting is a bit onerous while driving. Tap to Report > select category > add optional additional info > send. I often skip reporting altogether to avoid distracting from driving.
I would love to see the ability to have one-touch presets for making reports from the main screen. A single tap to mark & send a report on an accident, hazard, or speedtrap, etc.
User might even be allowed to customize which presets are present and/or include specific text (i.e. "Left lane closed") for frequent events.
412 votesWe plan to work on Quick-report presets in the near future. In the meantime, make sure you’ve got the latest version of Waze for all the latest features.
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Sleep alert
Dimming screen at not noticeable rate over an period and turn to maximum screen brightness. Create a shock to user, remind user to stay awake.
Or simply voice alert to remind sleepy driver.
And make it an option to turn the feature off.
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Move the thank and negative buttons
Suggestion!
The thank button and the negative badge for warnings are too close and it's easy to touch the unintended one while driving and bumps affect your hand floating while reaching for the screen. .
It would be nice to have the thank button on the left screen and the negative badge on the far right side. .since most phones are placed on the middle of the vehicle dash area. ..
Thanks for the awesome app!
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Remove auto-refocus on remove notification for non-touch screen
When there is a notification, the default focus is to remove the notification. Since latest update this is also flashing, meaning if you navigate to confirm and want to press select (2 actions) and you time it wrong, by the time you can press to confirm (non-touch screen) you accidentally remove the notification instead of confirming. The flashing for attention is a nice addition, but the auto-focus is not. Can this be improved?
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Color Coding for "Traffic" Reports Indication
To Use different Color Codes for :
"Moderate" - "Yellow" Color
"Heavy" - "Orange" Color
"Standstill" - "Red" ColorThis will indirectly help us to minimize our attention to the Screen without touch the Icon for Status of that Traffic in that location. It is good to Ease of Reference as Currently, I need to Press on that Icon Everything while on the move which is quite dangerous sometimes.30 votes -
Display current speed and limit when approaching speed camera
Currently speed camera alert covers whole bottom screen and hides current speed and allowed speed.
It would be super useful even just to see allowed speed!
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Hide notification bar in Android
Hiding the Notification bar would give a little more screen real estate, but the big deal here is that newer phones have AMOLED screens which can suffer from burn-in, and the notification bar in Android with the screen turned way up while navigating for hours is surely going to cause this. Can we PLEASE hide the notification bar so it doesn't damage our screens? Nexus One, Desire, Incredible, likely others will all be possibly impacted by this.
8 votesthis will not solve the issue with these screens, as waze has its own bar (right below the notifications bar) which will not be removed. So we need to think of a better solution that will prevent the burn-in, but hiding the notifications bar will not help.
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Pre programmed buttons on screen
Possibly have like 6 user programmable buttons for common alerts. Such as vehicle on shoulder ahead, Police ahead, crash on roadway ahead etc. I have not been able to get voice commands to work in my GMC 2014 Sierra Pickup or Iphone 13 Pro Max. One button much safer than having to hit 3 or 4 buttons to notify of alert.
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When using Android Auto, the street names are almost illegible and arguably dangerous to look at the screen under these conditions. Please c
When using Android Auto, the street names are almost illegible and arguably dangerous to look at the screen under these conditions. Please code in an option to increase street name font sizes
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Landscape redesign
Please can you redesign the landscape mode on Waze. The black box at the top with next turn and street name is to big. Reducing the size or making it transparent would let us see more of the map. Also the small black box at the button with time and distance could be split and move next to the navigation and report button. This would also give more screen space for the map.
29 votesGreat news! Moving the black box at the top of the screen when in landscape is now available in Waze. Install the latest app version to check it out.
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when phone in horizontal mode, better show routes
when phone is horizontal, once can only see the first route option - and not the rest.
please alter how the screen looks like when horizontal and doing routes11 votes -
I want to make the "Set destination" enforcement dialog disappear. Often I just want to see the map in full screen mode without using direct
I want to make the "Set destination" enforcement dialog disappear. Often I just want to see the map in full screen mode without using direct navigation assistance.
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Planned rides no longer show up in the where to screen. What happened?
Planned rides no longer show up in the where to screen. What happened? AND it has never saved the route that I pick when planning. It always picks the one it thinks is faster, or an option to pick one or the other would be nice.
1 vote
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