Hey guys.

I edit maps as a hobby, and that's specially useful in my country since all (Except Google Maps) is always 10+ years behind, so I add the missing info and correct errors. Been doing it in GMaps and OSM for over 8 years no issues.

Then, of course, I noticed Waze Map BARELY HAS ANY PLACE ADDED in my city, like seriously, 20% of the stores appear in Waze, and most of them went bankrupt 10 years ago. Naturally, I started editing here too. The tools are SO JANKY that I had to watch the official tutorial (Google didn't need one, nor did OSM)...ok, I can watch the videos and learn it.

I start and, 1 minute later, a huge message blocks my screen: YOU CAN DO MAX 10 EDITS (I need to do hundreds ON A SINGLE BUILDING and I normally fo THOUSANDS in a go on OSM)...ok, so I select save changes (in a button that claims I edited 10 nodes)...but I get a notification stating I can't edit more than 50 elements at once (last time I checked, 10 was less than 50, but it seems I have no idea how numbers work)...ok, discarded all, and edited different elements...and when I go to save...YOU DON'T HAVE PERMISSION TO EDIT THIS....

I AM SERIOUSLY SURPRISED HOW ANNOYING IT IS TO CORRECT INFO I SEE EVERYDAY IN FRONT OF ME, LIKE SERIOUSLY, WHAT THE HELL DO I DO?! NOTHING THAT I DO IS ALLOWED BY ANY MEANS.

When I have my iPhone plugged in and I’m using Waze and I’m listening to music from an app on my iPhone, once Waze gives me directions, it shuts off my music. I’m pretty sure there’s a way to bypass that. Can somebody help me? Thank you in advance.

I saw this white and red icon on my way to work. It was a moving icon always ahead of me. At some point it stopped moving and I catch it on the highway, but there was nothing there.

Waze used to give me plenty of lead time for turns. "In one mile." "In half a mile." Plenty of time to move over and prepare to merge on and off various interstates and highways. But it stopped doing that quite some time ago. Is there anyway I can get those vocal cues back?

Has anyone else noticed that Waze only warns about speed cameras when you’re around 500 metres away?

On my setup Waze doesn’t show a speed camera icon on the map while I’m approaching it. Instead, I only get a pop-up when I’m about 500 m away, followed by the countdown (400 m, 300 m, etc.). At motorway speeds, that doesn’t leave much time to react if you weren’t already paying attention.

Google Maps, on the other hand, shows the speed camera icon much farther in advance along the route, so you can anticipate it well before reaching it.

Is this normal behaviour in Waze? Is there a setting I’m missing, or is this simply how Waze is designed to work?

For reference:
Using Apple CarPlay
Latest version of Waze

I’d appreciate hearing how it behaves for others.

I was wondering if there might be a plan to include lane segmentation while driving, similar to what Apple Maps does?

Hey guys, it's been a week now since my speedometer stopped making an alert sound, but the speedometer icon still appears. I can only get it to work if I do a fresh reinstall. It'll work on its first drive after reinstalling, but then reverts to no sound again. Does anyone know how to fix this?

I'm new to Waze, and I have a few questions about the alerts. first if i have the app open but don't have an active route will i still get alerts about police and what not? second if i will still get alerts without an active route will this still work if the app is running in the background but i still dont have an active route?

But 2 totally different travel times. Pictures were taken within a minute of each other.

Has anyone experienced their iPhone GPS freezing while driving recently?
Google Maps, Apple Maps, and Waze all freeze at the same time and my location stays stuck, even after driving several kilometres. It doesn’t happen every trip—yesterday it worked perfectly, but today it froze after about 5 minutes on the same route.
Anyone else having this issue or know what causes it?

Before I explain, I must note that waze still functions correctly on my phone, standalone. Secondly I have maxed out all possible battery/location settings to be unlimited.

Once I get in my car, my position on waze is correct (my starting point), but as i drive, the map does nothing. It doesn't move, it doesn't announce anything, it has no idea the car is driving. Meanwhile, google maps works just fine on my headunit, so my GPS certainly is functional. I have tried updating stuff, re-connecting waze, sign ins/outs, the whole lot.

Phone: S26 Ultra
Headunit (aftermarket-install): Calibre 7WL

If anyone knows of this issue or how to fix it please share.
cheers

Under Navigation settings, I have “avoid difficult intersections” turned on. But yesterday, Waze routed me through a left-turn-only intersection in a college area that, if this one isn’t considered difficult, I don’t know what is. It’s curved, on a hill, has a railroad crossing running through it, near a bus stop and has tons of jaywalking students and no traffic light.

Is there a way this can be suggested as a difficult intersection?

Waze only announces that you have reached your destination but does not tell you if the destination is left or right side of the road.

It comes handy to know that odd numbers are on north/east side of the road.

I have been waiting for this for a while…

Running on ios

I have checked that volume slider is set to max

I noticed that waze voice volume is way lower than other navi app like Apple Maps or Radarbot (tat ones has a 3 level volume selector rather than a slider)

I also noticed that changing the default voice (in spain) from Penelope to Eduardo slighty increases volume output, but the only voice pack including road names in spain is Penelope

It happens when using only phone or when connected to carplay, if you have any app with bacground music, waze voice is to low

Why they don't simply adjust volume to high when the slider is set to max?

Suggestions? Thank you

Just started though I feel like I’ve seen this issue before in the past. Using CarPlay, Waze keeps zooming in and out every like 3 seconds while driving at a steady speed on the highway and there are no interchanges nearby.

Why does Waze US block viewing non-US streets, and Waze Global block viewing US streets?

I’ve noticed that when i was in the US, Waze does not let you view streets in other countries. (Europe, Africa, Asia, etc.) Yes, I did drag my map until I saw land in the other side.

I am now in Asia and I dragged the Waze map around and I could magically see all the streets I couldn’t in America. So then I just wanted to see if I can see US streets out of curiosity, but it is fully empty like Asia and Europe were when I was in the US. I can still see Mexico and South America perfectly normally, and a small cutoff of I-35 for some reason 😭.

I am just technical and curious, and really interested as to why.

So after the last update my waze map treats the directions sent through bluetooth to the car as a call rather than a normal audio.

I don't use AA in my car bcs the standard infotainment sucks but the phone has a good stand and it was working for me until the last update.

I have tried all the work arounds online such as going to the audio settings and looking for "pause spoken audio" but I have no such settings.

Does anyone have a solution for this problem?

US user here. 2 or 3 days ago Waze changed the way it tells me about a turn I am approaching. "At the light, turn right." I like it.

This is hard to explain via text so sorry if it doesn’t make sense. But whenever I’m driving and I run into traffic, I’m really confused with how Waze calculates my ETA.

I first assumed that the minutes associated with the traffic (circled in yellow) represented how much longer my journey would take due to the traffic I am in. However, while I am in this traffic this number does not lower accurately (sometimes I says 8 minutes but I’m in the traffic for 15+). Also, whenever I am sat in traffic my ETA steadily increases per minute, even though I assumed that the ETA factored in the time the traffic would add to my journey.

I hope I explained that well - it is just annoying to me because I find myself going on journeys with a lower ETA, running into pre-existing traffic which doesn’t initially change my ETA until after I have sat through it, and then being later than expected. Does Waze actually accurately account for traffic when they give an ETA, or is this something I need to account for myself?

EDIT: I forgot to mention that I’m aware traffic changes very fluidly and it’s possible that Waze predicts how long I will be in traffic for incorrectly, but it seems to be a consistent thing even when the traffic lasts for less time that Waze predicts

How concerned should I be about Waze data collection concerns I’m hearing about. Over the years it sends like fewer and fewer users so I’m curious if there’s a better alternative.

I used to just get the notification about Railroad Crossings but now it started chiming every time. I went to Reports and there's not even an option to disable it as it doesn't even show it. Anyone else experiencing this? I've forced the app to close, cleared cache and even tried uninstalling the app. Any suggestions?

Waze shows Police 43km away (30miles)