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Notes
Commitment to all phone platforms
Waze is committed to supporting Android, Apple iOS, Blackberry, Symbian, and Windows Mobile phones. Waze has found the fastest, easiest way to improve the app is to develop and test on the iPhone and then transfer and develop for other types of devices
Features
- Core features are available, or planned to be added, for every supported smartphone model
- Enhanced features are available on smarterphones, depending on hardware support
- Even though a feature may be available for your device type, there may be a problem with that feature on your specific model which should be listed here
Sorting the table
- You can sort the tables by version (V.) to see what feature was added in what version
- You can sort by device type so you can group together all the features not yet available
Key and Abbreviations
Android 
Blackberry 
Symbian (Nokia) 
Windows Mobile
(Apple iOS devices have not yet been added to this table.)
☑ Available ☐ Planned for later version ☒ Not available due to device limitations
- V.
- version
- T.
- Your phone needs Touch support to use this feature. For Blackberry Touch support is still being implemented, so even if your phone has Touch, the app may not yet support the feature.
- h/w
- You phones needs to support the hardware (h/w) required for this feature
Core Features
| V. * | Class | Feature |
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| 1 | Map | 2D (birdseye view) maps | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Map | 3D maps | ✔ | ☓ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Map | Select a map location as a destination | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Map | Select a map location as a start point (origin, departure point) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Map | Select and save a map location | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | Map | Select a road and edit the name, type and city for that road | ✔ | |||
| 1 | Map | Centre map on your current location and track your movements | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Map | Zoom in and out of maps | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Map | Rotate maps (change orientation) | ✔ | |||
| 1 | Map | Orient map so top is north | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | Map | Choice of day and night colours for the map | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Map | Force a download of the latest map for your locations | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| 1 | Map | Option to display other wazers in the area on your map | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Map | Option to display colour coded automatic traffic congestion reports for roads in the area on your map | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Map | Option to display the location of speed cameras in the area on your map | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Map | Option to display the location of police speed traps in the area on your map | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Map | Option to display the location of reported accidents in the area on your map | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Map | Option to display the location of manually reported traffic jams in the area on your map | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Map | Option to display the location of reported hazards in the area on your map | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Map | Select a map colour scheme from: Vitamin C, The Blues, Mochaccino, Snow Day, Twilight, Tutti-fruiti, Rosebud, Electrolytes | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 2.0 | Map | Select a map colour scheme from: Map editors | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | Map | Create your own map colour scheme (not available on the iPhone) | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| 1 | Driving | Spoken turn-by-turn instructions in a choice of languages and voices | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Driving | Display name of next road on the route | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Driving | Display distance and type of next turn | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Driving | Option to display approximate current speed (speedometer) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Driving | Displays estimated time of arrival (ETA) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Driving | Rotates ETA with display of remaining travel time (hours and minutes) | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| 1 | Driving | Display of driving distance to destination | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Driving | Ability to mute and unmute spoken turn-by-turn instructions | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Driving | Text and turn icon display of navigation list with distances, driving instructions and road names | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Driving | Cancel navigation to a route before arrival at your destination | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Driving | Option to automatically zoom in and out on the map based on speed and distance to next turn | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Driving | Typing is disabled while the vehicle is moving. This is enabled or disabled depending on your state or country. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1.9 | Routing | One text entry box to search for a destination by road name, address, place name or keywords using Google Local Search | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | Routing | Shortcut favourite destinations to Home and Work | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Routing | Top listing of common and recent destinations | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| 1 | Routing | List of favourite destinations | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | Routing | List of recent searches | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Routing | List of saved locations | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Routing | Choose destination by address from Contact/Address Book | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| 1 | Routing | Display a list comparing alternative routes with distances and estimated travel times | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Routing | Display a map comparing alternative routes and estimated travel times | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Routing | Choose whether routing based on fastest time to arrive, or shortest distance to travel | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | Routing | Choose whether or not to allow routing over dirt roads, or just to avoid long dirt roads | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Routing | Choose whether to reduce the number of turns on your route | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Routing | Choose whether to avoid freeways, motorways and highways | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Routing | Option to automatically suggest a destination frequently taken based on time of day and your location | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Map Updates | Record new roads | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | Map Updates | Map displays a road-roller when recording new roads | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | Map Updates | Record house numbers | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | Map Updates | Report when a turn is not allowed | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | Map Updates | Report an incorrect junction | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | Map Updates | Report a missing bridge or overpass | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | Map Updates | Report wrong driving directions given by the Waze client app | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | Map Updates | Report a missing exit | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | Map Updates | Report a missing road | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | Map Updates | Report a general map error | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | View Events | Top bar display shows number of local events | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | View Events | Display list of recent events by type | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 2.0 | View Events | Display list of local events by type | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 2.0 | View Events | Display list of events on your route by type | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 2.0 | View Events | Top bar shows current number of your group event notifications | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 2.0 | View Events | Display list of events from your groups by type, current and historic | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 2.0 | View Events | Choose the distance to apply when including nearby events | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | View Events | Nearby events are rotated in full over the map when you are not moving. Removed once you start moving | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | Report Events | Delayed reporting of events with automatic hide | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| 1 | Report Events | Reporting of events in current or opposite direction of travel | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Report Events | Adding a message to an event report | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Report Events | Adding a photo to an event report | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| 2.0 | Report Events | Choosing which group receives your report | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| 1 | Report Events | Reporting a police trap | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Report Events | Reporting a traffic jam | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Report Events | Reporting an accident | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Report Events | Reporting a hazard | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Report Events | Reporting a speed camera in your current direction of travel | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 2.0 | Report Events | Report an abuse of the road reports system | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 2.0 | Report Events | Delete a road report or comment you have sent | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Social | Other wazers are shown on the map with either nickname or anonymous, as they have chosen | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Social | Ability to ping other wazers you see on the map (a public Chit Chat directed at specific wazer), provided they choose to allow such pings | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Social | Report an abusive message sent as a Ping, Chit Chat or comment | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Social | Delete a Ping, Chit Chat or comment you have sent | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Social | Connect with a Foursquare account and check-in | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ ? | ✔ |
| 1 | Social | Ability to achieve the Roadwarrior Badge with Foursquare | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Social | Option to disable tweeting that you are connecting to Foursquare | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1.9 | Social | Connect with a Facebook account | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | Social | Connect with a twitter account | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1.9 | Social | View traffic related Twitter messages | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ ? | ✔ |
| 1.9 | Social | Reply to traffic related Twitter messages, then sent to other wazers and also tweeted | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ ? | ✔ |
| 1.9 | Social | Display your points and your rank (placing) compared with your Facebook friends who use Waze (weekly and for all time) | ✔ | ✔ ? | ||
| 1 | Social | Option to tweet your road reports | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Social | Option to tweet your destination and ETA | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Social | Option to tweet your point scoring (road munching) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Social | Option to post to Facebook your road reports | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | Social | Option to post to Facebook your destination and ETA | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | Social | Option to post to Facebook your point scoring (road munching) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | Social | Option to tweet that you have unlocked the Roadwarrior badge on Foursquare | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Social | Option to have your Facebook name linked with your wazer icon on the map: to everyone, to no one, or to friends only | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | Social | Option to have your Facebook profile picture linked with your wazer icon on the map: to everyone, to no one, or to friends only | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | Social | Option to have a link to your Facebook profile linked with your wazer icon on the map: to everyone, to no one, or to friends only | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| 1 | Social | Option to have a link to your Twitter profile linked with your wazer icon on the map: to everyone, to no one, or to friends only | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | App | Choose the language for the app interface from a list downloaded from the Waze server | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | App | Icon to show when not connected to the Waze server | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | App | Option to choose whether to connect to the Waze server automatically (not available on the iPhone) | ✔ | |||
| 1 | App | Icon to show when not receiving a good GPS signal | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | App | Built in summary of what Waze does and how it works, with screenshots | ✔ | |||
| 1 | App | Video guided tour to using Waze | ✔ | |||
| 1 | App | Draft an email for you to send telling people about Waze and how to get it | ✔ | |||
| 1 | App | Send a free text message to your chosen number telling people about Waze and how to get it (not available in the iPhone version) | ✔ | |||
| 1 | App | Popup to review the Waze app on Chomp - Love or Hate rating, with optional 60 character comment | ||||
| 1 | App | Link to the iTunes App store, App World for Blackberry, Marketplace for Android for you to rate (1-5 stars) the Waze app, and optionally write a review | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| 1 | App | After 10 minutes in the background without being used, the app will stop running | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 2.0 | App | Turn off app | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | App | Send Waze your app debugging logs | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | App | Display the version of your installed app | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| App | 1 | Display keyboard short cuts help screen (not available for the iPhone) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Gaming | Map displays a waze-muncher when munching cookies (driving across unconfirmed, pacman-type roads) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | Gaming | Option to display the road goodies in the area on your map | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | Gaming | Option for pop-up display of you points status as you earn points while driving | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | Gaming | Display the points ticker (not available on the iPhone) | ✔ | |||
| 1 | Gaming | Setting to prefer routes over unconfirmed roads, that earn more points | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | Gaming | Display your points and your rank (placing) in your state or country | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 2.0 | Gaming | Pop-up notifications of your progress in your level of waziness | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 2.0 | Gaming | Display your level of waziness | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 2.0 | Gaming | Display bonus point opportunities | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 2.0 | Gaming | Display the top 50 point earners for the week (and last week's top 3) in your state or country, and also worldwide | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | Gaming | Display the top 50 point earners of all time in your state or country, and also worldwide | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 2.0 | Groups | Find groups that are nearby, popular or by searching the name | ✔ | |||
| 2.0 | Groups | Link to view a group profile from a road report sent by a group member | ✔ | |||
| 2.0 | Groups | Link to the Facebook account for a group | ✔ | |||
| 2.0 | Groups | Link to the the Twitter account for a group | ✔ | |||
| 2.0 | Groups | Join a group | ✔ | |||
| 2.0 | Groups | Choose your main group | ✔ | |||
| 2.0 | Groups | Display membership of a group, including the date each member joined | ✔ | |||
| 2.0 | Groups | Display details about the group, including the number of members, group icon, the name and location of the group, the number of new users and reports made in the last month, a linked Facebook account (if any) and a linked Twitter account (if any), the creator (owner) of the group, and the date the group was created | ✔ | |||
| 2.0 | Groups | Create (start) a group, linking it to a Twitter account and a Facebook page | ✔ | |||
| 2.0 | Groups | Quit (leave) a group | ✔ | |||
| 2.0 | Groups | Choose whether pop-up reports are displayed from all groups, your main group only, or no groups | ✔ | |||
| 2.0 | Groups | Choose whether the wazer icons on the map show all group icons, just the groups you have joined, or only from your main group | ✔ | |||
| 1 | Moods | Select male or female version of LOL, bored, busy, cool, happy, in love, mad, sad, sleepy, speedy, starving, wondering | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1.9 | Moods | Select Gold, Silver or Bronze based on your place in last week's scoreboard for your country or state | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 2.0 | Moods | Select male or female version of in a hurry, peaceful, singing | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | Music | Play music and access music controls | ✔ | |||
| 1 | Music | Automatic music volume reduction when spoken turn-by-turn instructions are given | ✔ | |||
| 1 | Settings | Turn spoken turn-by-turn instructions off (navigation guidance) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | App | Volume control | ✔ | |||
| 1 | Settings | Choose meters (km) or yards (miles) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Settings | Choose 12 hour or 24 hour clock | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Settings | Choose backlight on or off | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| 1 | Settings | Option to accept pings (Chit chat directed to you personally) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Settings | Option to use data compression when transferring data with the server | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| 1 | Settings | Option to display network data transfers (bytes sent and received) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Settings | Option to always display map controls on top of map | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | Settings | Option to always display top bar on map | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | Settings | Select the appearance of your car when being tracked on your map from 3D Arrow, Arrow, SUV, Beetle, Bus, Blue car, Gray car, Green car, Race car, Red car, Yellow car, Motorbike, Red Ferrari, Smart, Taxi | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Settings | Option to automatically switch between night and day colours | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 1 | Settings | Option to disable download of traffic updates and road reports | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Privacy | Option to choose a nickname | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 | Privacy | Option whether you are displayed on the map with your nickname or as anonymous | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Enhanced Features
| V. * | Class | T. | h/w | Feature |
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| 1 | Map | ✔ | Automatic switch between landscape and portrait display | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Planned Features
There are many planned new features. This section lists only those where there is some provision for a feature in the app menu or interface, but the feature is not yet implemented.
Popup notifications can be turned on or off for...
Your score and rank
- How many points you need to become next week's gold / silver / bronze wazer (if you are within reach)
- Give you an alert when you become this week's gold / silver / bronze wazer
- When you've achieved a new level of waziness
- When you've nearly lost a level of waziness
- When you have lost a level of waziness
Friends
- How many people joined your group recently
Contests and Updates
Automatic notification of the release of a new version of the app
Parked-up (pause) mode
Removed Features
This table lists features previously available that have been removed
| Removed in V. | Class | Feature | Availability in versions for other models | Comments |
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| 2.0.1 | Privacy | Ability to not appear on the map to other wazers (ghost option) | Android 2.0.0.1 - Confirmed missing
Blackberry Beta - Unknown Symbian 2.0 - Unknown Windows Mobile 2.0 - Unknown |
Removal of this option has privacy implications |