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Toggling this one Waze setting fixes its most annoying feature

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-14 22:30:22

Andy Walker / Android Authority Waze is a great navigation app for city drivers and road trippers. It highlights important road events and traffic backlogs along your route. Powered by its active community, these alerts give the app genuine road-going utility compared to Google Maps. When I drive, I usually use Google Maps on my Android Auto screen while enjoying Waze’s alerts in the background. But what if you prefer the reverse? I couldn’t quite get used to Waze’s cartoonish UI, but the most

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Waze is dropping support for older Android versions

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-26 04:25:21

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Waze is ending support for some older versions of Android. Google will soon stop updating the Waze app on devices running Android 9 Pie or older versions of Android. The app will continue to function as usual, but your device will no longer receive newer features. Although it isn’t unusual for Google to have multiple apps for the same or similar functionality, it is atypical for it to allow these multiple apps to exist — so much so that we can’t fath

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Google says pick Maps or Waze in the car — here’s how I use both

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-20 12:30:28

Andy Walker / Android Authority Despite its litany of flaws, I love Android Auto. It makes driving more enjoyable by offering easy access to my music collection and putting important navigation information front and center. However, it does have some silly limitations that hamper the latter. Google Maps is my primary navigation platform. It’s what my Android Auto instance boots into, and I don’t necessarily have a problem with that. It’s relatively reliable for daily commutes and has an approa

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Waze vs. Google Maps: Which navigation app is best?

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2026-01-11 05:00:21

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET A quick Google search will surface article after article claiming that Waze is far better than Google Maps. But is that actually true? I'm a longtime Google Maps (and Google Earth) user. I swear by the app, and I regularly side-eye anyone who says otherwise -- especially, god forbid, Apple Maps users. Also: Google Maps can identify and save places in your screenshots - here's how I'm also a tech editor, though, which means I do my best to set aside personal bias i

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