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Waze is growing fast in features and popularity. This is not a complete list of development areas, but should reassure you that Waze is aware of your concerns and is working to make things better.

Current development focus includes:

  • Fixing annoying bugs
  • Upgrading the worldwide infrastructure to allow Waze to support the growing number of users while making the service more reliable
  • Integrating features to generate revenue for Waze
  • ASR (Automated Speech recognition)
  • TTS (Text to Speech voice guided turn-by-turn instructions that announce the street names for upcoming turns) in multiple languages
  • Releasing feature equal clients for Android and iOS
  • Gas price integration
  • POI category search
  • Toll Road avoidance
  • Time of day turn restrictions
  • Time of day road directionality changes
  • Adding the ability to search for location by UK postcodes
  • Implementing road blocks and road closures
  • Supporting Car pool, (HOV), Transit Lanes


Recently completed:

  • Making the Android version stable
  • Upgrading the World servers, which has increased the reliability and speed of editing maps
  • Improved the routing in areas of Private Roads and Parking Lot roads