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If you've been using Waze for more than a couple of days, you probably know that the app needs urgent fixes.
One of the most common bugs plaguing the Waze user base lately is the broken voice directions, which for some reason sound unusual as if the user enabled a custom voice pack. Waze is investigating the error, but an ETA regarding a potential release date is unavailable.
Meanwhile, the Google-owned company sticks with minor updates that include subtle fixes for problems that have already been corrected in the previous updates.
The latest iOS release is living proof, as Waze 4.100, now available from the App Store, "fixes a bug to ensure road names are read correctly in voice directions." If you believe you've seen this fix elsewhere, you're not wrong.
Waze released the same improvement as part of version 4.98, dated September 12. Presumably, the glitch required another fix, or the Google-owned company just copy-pasted the previous changelog (which wouldn't be surprising, considering the previous updates went live with generic release notes for iOS users).
Otherwise, Waze 4.100 doesn't seem to include breaking changes, but only this minor fix that should ensure correct road names when navigating with voice directions.
Waze remains one of the leading names in the navigation space, mainly thanks to its crowdsourcing engine, allowing users to report traffic incidents. Thanks to this feature, users can flag the location of hazards like broken traffic lights, potholes, traffic jams, speed traps, and roadkill, with Waze generating warnings for other motorists whose routes go through the same points.
Several other companies have tried to copy Waze's concept but more or less failed to turn crowdsourcing incident reporting into a widely adopted feature. Apple is the best example, as Apple Maps now allows users to report accidents, speed traps, and other hazards. The feature is integrated into the detailed city experience (whose rollout advanced slowly worldwide), but traffic reports are still scarce, even in the United States, where Apple Maps has the biggest adoption.
Meanwhile, Waze keeps struggling with bugs that push users to alternative products, including Google Maps. One of the most recent problems causes the time left to the destination to become a math problem, as the application no longer uses the hour:minutes format, displaying the time using only minutes. It converts all hours to minutes, eventually displaying ridiculous numbers like hundreds of minutes when leaving on a long journey. Waze is already investigating the problem, but it's also unclear when the fix could land in the hands of users.
You can download the new iOS version from the App Store, but if you enabled automatic updates, the latest update might already be on your device. CarPlay users only need to update the iPhone app for the latest improvements.
Meanwhile, the Google-owned company sticks with minor updates that include subtle fixes for problems that have already been corrected in the previous updates.
The latest iOS release is living proof, as Waze 4.100, now available from the App Store, "fixes a bug to ensure road names are read correctly in voice directions." If you believe you've seen this fix elsewhere, you're not wrong.
Waze released the same improvement as part of version 4.98, dated September 12. Presumably, the glitch required another fix, or the Google-owned company just copy-pasted the previous changelog (which wouldn't be surprising, considering the previous updates went live with generic release notes for iOS users).
Otherwise, Waze 4.100 doesn't seem to include breaking changes, but only this minor fix that should ensure correct road names when navigating with voice directions.
Waze remains one of the leading names in the navigation space, mainly thanks to its crowdsourcing engine, allowing users to report traffic incidents. Thanks to this feature, users can flag the location of hazards like broken traffic lights, potholes, traffic jams, speed traps, and roadkill, with Waze generating warnings for other motorists whose routes go through the same points.
Several other companies have tried to copy Waze's concept but more or less failed to turn crowdsourcing incident reporting into a widely adopted feature. Apple is the best example, as Apple Maps now allows users to report accidents, speed traps, and other hazards. The feature is integrated into the detailed city experience (whose rollout advanced slowly worldwide), but traffic reports are still scarce, even in the United States, where Apple Maps has the biggest adoption.
Meanwhile, Waze keeps struggling with bugs that push users to alternative products, including Google Maps. One of the most recent problems causes the time left to the destination to become a math problem, as the application no longer uses the hour:minutes format, displaying the time using only minutes. It converts all hours to minutes, eventually displaying ridiculous numbers like hundreds of minutes when leaving on a long journey. Waze is already investigating the problem, but it's also unclear when the fix could land in the hands of users.
You can download the new iOS version from the App Store, but if you enabled automatic updates, the latest update might already be on your device. CarPlay users only need to update the iPhone app for the latest improvements.
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