How to Actually Use Waze: The Best Driving App

A year ago I released a video about using Waze but one comment made me want to revisit the app.

While I felt like I had covered the features well, as Joy C pointed out, I probably didn’t do the best job of explaining exactly how to use Waze.

With that in mind, this video is a walk through of using Waze to plan a trip and use some of the features along the way.

00:00 - Intro to Waze and my last video.
00:54 - Setting a destination.
01:36 - Starting a trip.
03:45 - Additional Settings.
05:09 - En Route with Waze.
06:36 - Achievements.

#Waze #Driving #HowTo

[jerryfacts]

Very well explained! I use WAZE everyday when in my truck. I have the phone mounted and have the WAZE map running. It reports very useful road info while I am driving.

[davidmathews]

Great stuff. Highly accurate. Saves countless hours finding fastest route…except that time I ended up in Guatemala. But I made lots of new friends.

[mss]

My biggest gripe with Waze is the requirement to add traffic notification via the screen. This is a potential hazzard that could easily be avoided by allowing voice reporting. I've watched dozens of these so called tutorials and nobody seems to be addressing this issue. Am I missing something?

[adiuntesserande]

This was quite helpful. Even more so for me than a lot of people, I’d wager, as I live in Victoria. Imagine my surprise when I realized, ‘Wait. I know all these places!’

[nathanhollis]

Anyone who totally depends on WAZE to reach their destination is going to end up trying to turn onto an airport runway one day. I always map out my destination and use WAZE as a secondary aid. I just ignore it when I’m told to turn south when the map shows I absolutely need to be traveling west. I grew up reading maps from AAA so I know my directions before I even leave the house.

[CandyGirl]

We went back to Google maps. The only improvement I would like to see on Maps is a distance estimator after youve made a turn. Our ancient map guidance in our old Jeep Liberty will say "prepare to turn left in x kms". So you know you can relax in that lane for quite a while still, or need to do some lane hopping to turn the opposite direction fairly soon. We have been caught trying to cross several lanes of traffic with less than a 2 or 300 m warning if the next turn is very close.

[palenholik]

7:09 There are benefits if you are a map editor. As you level up, you can edit wider area of the map. At the start, low levels, you can edit 1km around the roads that you commuted (except major roads and highways).

[DannyFyffe]

I haven't used this app in years and forgot about it. I'll have to give it a try as Google maps makes many mistakes.

[brownies-midlifeadventure]

Interesting, I've never seen any ads on the app in Australia...

[Black_Hole_HQ]

My biggest want for Waze is multiple stops along a route, for roadtrips.

[jbramblett]

I've used Waze for years... I do like the crowd sourcing.. in my area there used to be a couple of hundred waze users ...now I don't think there's that many anymore... I do like the new voices they've added though

[banto]

Waze is usually pretty good about traffic info. I usually turn it on when I'm on a known route (i.e. I don't need directions), but just want to know how long I'll be stuck in this slowly moving parking lot on the highway. One major gripe I have with Waze is when driving in rural areas, the app will direct me through roads with a lot less traffic (as designed), however, there is usually a very good reason these roads have less traffic as they tend to be dangerous, not well kept up or just plain annoying to drive on (e.g. lots of hills, narrow roads and/or high crime areas). I'd prefer to spend 2 minutes driving on a regular highway and not get dead.

[AndrewPinkFloyd]

I used to use Waze but I got tried of it taking me all of these wacky, out of the way routes that were A) Way longer than they needed to be B) No way were they faster than what my standard route would have been.

[wetherby]

I'm not a 'phone person' so I haven't tried WAZE, though I've heard it's very good. From this video I gather WAZE works well and is easy, that's all I can ask for. Thanks.

[egauci]

I used waze a while back but had two issues: 1) ads. I would have paid to get rid of ads but it wasn’t an option. 2) waze was unstable and would always crash on long drives. It was not just inconvenient but dangerous to suddenly lose navigation in an unfamiliar place

[roberthardy]

We suffer from HS2 near us with frequent road changes, most of which are not signposted properly so Waze is really useful for the proper information we need.

[keyplayajim]

I used to love Waze until, after an app update, the audio quit working through my car's speakers and now only works through the phone's speakers (iPhone 12 Pro Max). Their customer support was unable to solve the problem. Also, Waze has developed a tendency to freeze during navigation, once making me late for an important medical appointment when it caused me to miss several turns in an unfamiliar city. I ended up pulling into a parking lot so I could enter the address into Google Maps and complete my trip.

[ronsisson]

#somethingwentwrong, this sums up my experience with WAZE! 😂 If I want to reach my destination I must use something that actually works.

[hammer-r]

What ever happened to just turning on waze while I’m driving, without a destination entered. They don’t need to have my personal addresses put in there for their data mining. And sometimes I just drive. Mine doesn’t work in this mode. Tried everything I know.

[Stallzyx]

0:16 Looks like it may do what I want it to do. Want a live navigation map because the car I've just bought doesn't have it and everyone recommends phone as opposed to a dedicated sat nav unit . Google maps won't let me do this without entering a destination I believe and also running Waze while driving or passenger should help improve my google location history it seems from what I've read