If Google Maps is Coca-Cola and Apple Maps is Pepsi, Waze is Royal Crown (RC) Cola, the smaller and less-known third option for cola fans. Waze concentrates on the navigation end of things, like Google Maps used to back in the day. And the app’s claim to fame is its crowdsourced information regarding traffic conditions, accidents, police presence, construction, and anything else that has impacted those on a similar route to yours.
It’s better to know in advance when you might have to drive over a speed bump
Waze users with the iOS app have had some other issues which aren’t addressed in the new update. Expanding traffic reports are no longer available for some iPhone users while driving, and in a way, this makes sense since the driver’s attention is supposed to be on the road, not on his or her iPhone screen. Having said that, the feature also no longer works even when the car is parked.
Some iOS and Android users are still able to access the expanded reports so it is unclear whether there is some type of A/B testing going on (this is Google after all), or the update that disables the feature has not finished rolling out to all Waze users.
Waze has also pushed out a very poor update for CarPlay users that makes it hard to find alternate routes. According to autoevolution, every new update of Waze for Apple’s CarPlay changes the position of the buttons on the touchscreen forcing users to press them more in order to find new routes. Again, drivers are supposed to be concentrating on driving instead of monkeying around with the CarPlay screen.
