- Waze’s new button provides faster navigation to favorite places
- The recent update follows a general update of the UI
- Speed drop alerts and track sweeping messages also have now
Waze has long been a favorite with motorists thanks to its early use of crowd-sourced data for the most up-to-date travel information and accurate directions. Granted, like Google and Apple Maps, have now caught up, but it’s still a popular app for Android Auto and Apple CarPlay users.
If you use the latter, you will find that Waze has quietly updated its Apple CarPlay user experience so that the interface not only looks cleaner and more modern, but is also now easier to use thanks to a mixture of the key functionality.
A shortcut to preferred or most visited destinations now sits on the right side of the main screen, just below the search button before navigation begins. This makes it much easier to get routing to a home or office address with a few prods.
It’s also smart as this favorites Hot Key will adapt depending on the time of day and predicted driving behavior. For example, a press of the button in the morning will navigate directly to the office if it is part of your routine. Similarly, it will navigate home in the evening.
The auto-hiding rod at the very top of the display now has a favorite button (for manual entering and managing addresses), as well as notification volume and voice-activated search.
During navigation, however, search functionality is now housed in this Auto-Cjulable, so it requires a click to open when driving, which can be frustrating.
In addition to the updates of the user experience, WAZE also recently announced a number of new features, including speeding warnings and messages about future dangerous curves or sharp corners, adding its existing community -based features that easily mark obstacles or disturbances along the route.
At the top of this, WAZE UX also offers now coinciding lane messages that see all appropriate lanes appear on the map with an indication of the right track to be in to safely continue a journey.
Your waze is numbered
It’s no coincidence that Google Maps has started to feel much more like Waze in recent years, with the tech giant that adds things like user-generated hazard alarms and sweet interchangeable icons for its own mapping service when it bought the company for $ 1 , 3 billion in 2013.
While Waze was once a go-to application for real-time traffic messages and almost immediate warnings about nearby overload or accidents, Google Map has tools to navigate to hide restaurants or places of interest.
In addition, many car manufacturers are now running Android Automotive as the selected infotainment us, giving the said car manufacturer the opportunity to introduce vehicle -specific information to Google Maps.
This is especially important for electric vehicles, where the remaining battery range and the vicinity of nearby chargers, the price per day. Kilowatt and live status (lots of them do not work) is important for stress -free travel.
Despite this, WAZE users have risen ten times since Google acquisition in 2013, according to an interview with its founder in Forbes, indicating that it remains extremely popular with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay users in general.
But how long Google will continue to allow its developers to work on and introduce new functionality is someone’s guess.
