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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.
410 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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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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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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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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Navigation Notification Pop-ups
I have an iPhone 11 Pro updated to the latest software, iOS 16. When I use Waze for navigation and then go to my Home Screen I cannot see my navigation, or rather when I am close to a turn or freeway exit then I do not receive a notification at all warning me.
On the contrary, when I use Apple Maps for navigation anywhere and I go to the Home Screen, or even lock my phone for that matter, then I will receive pop-up notifications (even on my watch, take that Waze!) with directions on where to exit…2 votesThanks for reaching out. Please note this platform is dedicated to ideas and suggestions for the Waze app. If your idea is for a Community platform like the Waze Map Editor, please submit it through the Community forum. If you need help using Waze, please click here to reach the "Waze support" page.
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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 -
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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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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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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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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Customize the position of speed icon
I would like to customize the position of the current speed on the screen. On my car is not possible to see in the bottom of the screen.
We should have option bottom or top, right or left9 votes -
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 -
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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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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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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Add a brightness control to compensate in app for night driving and sunny days
At night I find my phone screen is to bright to have running, I alter this using the brightness in phone settings but this is a long winded excessive, would be better to have an in app slider or on screen button to control brightness or a 3 finger drag say up and down the screen would be amazing. This would work in the opposite during sunny days when a greater backlight is required.
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Update to run on background on Sync 3
The iPhone and Samsung devices recently released will show signs of burns when a picture is on for a long period of time. In this case since the screen has to be on in order for the car to run app its very bad for phone screen and can also make device get really hot and may start fire inside vehicle . I drive for hours at a time and i have noticed the heating problem. Please update app to run in the background with screen off.
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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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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.
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Please get rid of the black box across the top of the apple car play!!!
I hate the black half inch box on top of the apple car play screen. Please remove it.
5 votes
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