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This page is used to capture bugs and usability issues from the community as well as for the Waze client app developers to communicate back to the users which they are aware of and the status of the fix for those bugs and issues.
Acknowledged Bugs and Issues
Waze developers will use this table to list the bugs and usability issues which they have acknowledged, verified and will be fixed in future releases.
| Date | OS | Issue Description | Example Image/Link | Fix Release Versions | Status |
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| 2011-10-15 | 
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Navigation list is missing. | Removed on purpose in version 3.0. After Lots of community requests Feature added back in to iOS v3.1 and pending release into next Android version. | Pending |
Community-submitted Bugs and Issues
The Waze user community is encouraged to capture verified bugs and usability issues in the following table. As community bugs are acknowledged and verified, the Waze developers will move the information from this table to the table in the Acknowledged Bugs and Issues section above.
| Date | OS | Issue Description | Example Image/Link | Workaround | Status |
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| 2010-11-03 |
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HTC + Froyo screen problem when using landscape mode. | Screenshot | Starting the app in portrait, then switching to landscape will display the problem as shown in the link, but rotating back to portrait will return the screen to normal. Starting the app in landscape then rotating to portrait does not fix it. | Open |
| 2011-03-16 |
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With Automatic Night Mode set to OFF, client does not save the Mode setting for Night. Each time you start the client, the Mode reverts to Day. | Open | ||
| 2011-03-28 |
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App crashes at the same physical location when driving. | Open | ||
| 2011-03-28 |
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Adding a photo to a report freezes at the camera sceen. The back button brings you back to the report screen, but the touch screen does not respond. Hardware buttons (home or back) invoke a OS message that the app has stopped responding, and the question if you want to wait or exit the app. When you chose 'wait', you can wait forever, the only way out is to exit the app through the OS crash message, and restart. | Open | ||
| 2011-04-07 | 
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Waze does not obey the "Event Radius" distance option when navigating, after canceling navigation, or if the routing server returns an error. The example video linked here is from the iPhone, but Android suffers the same bug.
EDIT: The Event Radius expands to include the area along your route and destination when navigating. This is by design. The confirmed BUG is that this settings stays in effect if routing is canceled or routing errors out. |
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| 2011-06-02 | 
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Bug in code causes the client to be unable to display the following speeds:
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This is currently working as designed, but the client should not be coded in knots and then converted to mph or kph. This causes a loss of accuracy in displaying the correct speed. | Open | |
| 2011-02-03 |
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Map and vehicle take turns "scrolling" which is distracting and looks unprofessional. The map stay perfectly still while the car icon moves along the road for a short distance, then the map scrolls, moving the car backward (backward relative to the physical device, but it stays in the right place relative to the map). Affects both 2D and 3D mode. | Open | ||
| 2011-10-15 |
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Minimize turns setting doesn't stick between client exit/start. | Minimize turns setting is ignored by the routing server and is always on. This option will likely be removed from the app in the future. | Pending | |
| 2011-10-15 |
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Reporting "other lane" for hazards, police, etc. does not work for split roadways such as "I- 5 S" reporting for "I- 5 N" | Open | ||
| 2011-10-20 |
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Multiple alerts on-screen at the same time can cover up alerts with timers which are about to expire which cannot be tapped on in time. | Open | ||
| 2011-10-20 |
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Approaching hazard, police, speed cam, red light cam will cancel a current on-screen alert which is counting down and waiting for user response. | For example, a police report 400ft from a red-light camera. The pop-up for confirming or "not there" button for the police appears correctly, but having to wait until the right location causes the red-light alert to pop up before the "not there" button can be pressed causing the incorrect police report to remain. | Open | |
| 2011-10-20 |
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User-selected zoom levels are not saved without autozoom disabled. To recreate: disable autozoom, drive, navigate, select alternate routes, view Map of alternate routes, select route. Waze map will be pinned north up and zoomed out as far as it can go instead of returning to previous user-selected zoom setting. | This issue has been on-going since the 2.0 release | Open | |
| 2011-10-20 |
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Street names are mispronounced. | Waze is working with the OS built-in Text-To-Speech engine and cannot control pronunciation at this time. A future feature to allow editors to post phonetic pronunciation may be a possibility. | Open | |
| 2011-10-18 |
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Graphic preview of events along a route is not accurate. | http://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=12674 | This may involve a routing server issue, too. | Open |
| 2011-10-19 |
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When the alternate routes are being processed, bonus candies are ignored and will be driven over without getting points. They remain on the map. This may happen when other alerts are on-screen too. | Resolved | ||
| 2012-02-01 |
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No more than one favorite on an unnamed (null name) street can be added in v3.0. Previous favorites on unnamed streets remain, and you can add only one with v3.0.
Edit: The 1st unnamed street favorite disappear only when the application restart. |
This was resolved on iOS in version 3.1 | Resolved | |
| 2011-10-25 |
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Some users would love to have the iPod play control put back into Waze so they don't have to switch apps. | Open | ||
| 2011-11-07 |
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Text-to-speech mispronounces non-English accented characters. The é character, which the TTS seems to interpret as 'aa©' | http://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13103 | Do not use accented characters until resolved. | Open |
| 2011-12-12 |
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When navigating in landscape mode and the network signal is lost, the "next road" caption at the top of the screen reverts to the size of the portrait mode. It'll stay like this until the route recalculates. |  |
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| 2011-12-14 |
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When in landscape mode, the Report menu icons will disappear if you do this: tap open the report menu, swipe to the 2nd set of icons, turn the phone to porttrait. | Close the report menu and reopen, or rotate back to landscape, which will show you the first icon set again, then rotate back to portrait again. | Open | |
| 2012-01-14 |
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Prefer goodie munching doesn't operate properly. It does operate dangerously, telling the driver to make illegal turns and drive the wrong way on 1-way streets. | "Prefer goodie munching" has been removed from the US/Canada infrastructure, but though Waze promised to remove it, as of June 2012, it is still an option for the rest of the world and still causes problems. | Open | |
| 2012-01-20 |
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When driving above certains speeds with autozoom by speed turned on, on a normal street in non-navigation mode, the street you are driving on disappears. | This is really just a known limitation. | Open | |
| 2012-03-15 |
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Properly named highway and freeway segments do not always properly display the shield and often, for freeways, show a mix of shields and names. This bug is confirmed by Waze. | 
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| 2012-08-21 |
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v3.2.1.0: 'Show on map/speed cams' is not honored. In France, using this feature is forbidden, and heavy fined. | Open | ||
| 2013-02-19 |
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v3.5:some time since v3, one stop being able to add a work address, delete it, and have Work no longer show up in the Favorites list. not all of us have a Work address and some of us want this ability back. | Open |
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