Category: Waze

Remember, Waze tracks your location. It also allows you to post your traffic reports to Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare – which happens automatically if you link your accounts. If you do this, people will be able to figure out where you are, and who you are. How does the Waze app work? The Waze app […]

Waze is a free, ad-supported interactive navigation app owned by Google and available for both i. OS and Android. It uses your smartphone’s GPS service to calculate routes between destinations and gathers information via social media-based crowdsourcing to alert you to road conditions while you drive. How does the Waze app work? The Waze app […]

If your i. Phone has a physical home button, double-tap this button to open the app switcher. Swipe up on Waze’s window to close it. If your i. Phone has no button, swipe up slowly from the bottom of the screen until the app switcher appears. Swipe up on Waze’s window to close it. If […]

Google Maps use around 0.6MB of data per hour and Waze uses only about 0.23MB an hour and it will go lower than that if you plot your directions or maps while you’re on Wifi. Mobile data needs to be turned on for the GPS and other location services running in the background but they, […]

Waze does not support speed limits for different vehicle type so all speed limits should be set to that applicable to Cars, Motorcycles, and Vans. You can not mark a segment as being covered by the National Speed Limit. This begs the inquiry “How do I see how fast I’m driving on Waze?” See how […]

Waze is one of the navigational apps you can download from the Play Store for free but since you’re gonna be using it on the go, you will need to use mobile data to get real-time directions. The question many users ask is how much data does the app actually use? Unlike streaming apps or […]

Note: Apple Car. Play does not currently support Waze Carpool. Use Waze directly on your in-car display with Apple Car, and play. For this, you need a compatible i. OS device and a car that supports Car. Play in one of these regions. To use your i. OS device as an extension of your Car. […]

Waze does not sell, rent or lease your personal information to third parties. Waze will not share your personal information with others, without your permission, except for the following purposes and to the extent necessary in Waze’s good-faith discretion: As necessary for the facilitation and operation of the Services. We explain how Waze uses information […]

As of June 2020, you can no longer log in to Waze with your phone number. To prepare for this, we asked that users add an email account to Waze and verify it before June. Yet another inquiry we ran across in our research was “How do I verify my Waze account using my Facebook […]

Tap the small blue arrow at the very bottom of the screen. This arrow will be in the bottom-center of the screen. A menu will open. Tap “Stop” in the bottom-left. Select the “Stop” option. Navigation will be cancelled, and Waze will stop giving directions. When we were researching we ran into the question “How […]