{"id":57397,"date":"2013-12-13T01:37:25","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T23:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=57397"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:58:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:58:36","slug":"waze-update-redesign-auto-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/waze-update-redesign-auto-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"Waze update features redesign and auto complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Waze news on Softonic\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/waze\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Waze<\/a> for Android and iOS has been updated today with a slight redesign and auto completing search results. Visually, the app remains much the same except for the main menu, which has been simplified to just four main buttons: Navigate, My Waze, Send ETA, and Inbox. Previously, Waze featured a grid of buttons, which made finding what you wanted at a glance quite difficult.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-57400\" title=\"Waze updated main menu\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/12\/05MainMenu-331x568.png\" alt=\"Waze updated main menu\" width=\"331\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/12\/05MainMenu-331x568.png 331w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/12\/05MainMenu-149x256.png 149w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/12\/05MainMenu.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Auto completing search results should also make Waze much easier to use. Contacts, categories, businesses, address, and favorites will all show up instantly while you type. Waze is rolling out this feature slowly so it may take &#8220;a few weeks&#8221; for everyone to get the new auto complete feature.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-57401\" title=\"Waze auto complete\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/12\/10AutoComplet_0000_EN-330x568.png\" alt=\"Waze auto complete\" width=\"330\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/12\/10AutoComplet_0000_EN-330x568.png 330w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/12\/10AutoComplet_0000_EN-148x256.png 148w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/12\/10AutoComplet_0000_EN.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last but not least, Waze has made it easier to add or stop an existing route. While Waze is navigating, you can tell the app where you want to go and it will ask you whether you want to add it as a point of interest or as the final destination.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download Waze for <a title=\"Waze for Android\" href=\"http:\/\/waze.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a> and <a title=\"Waze for iOS download\" href=\"http:\/\/waze.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/waze-celebrity-voices\">Waze debuts celebrity voices (video)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/waze-released-on-windows-phone\">Waze released on Windows Phone<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/waze-integrated-into-desktop-google-maps\">Waze integrated into desktop Google Maps<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"Waze blog\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.waze.com\/2013\/12\/new-version-of-waze-released.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Waze<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waze for Android and iOS has been updated today with a slight redesign and auto completing search results. Visually, the app remains much the same except for the main menu, which has been simplified to just four main buttons: Navigate, My Waze, Send ETA, and Inbox. Previously, Waze featured a grid of buttons, which made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/waze-update-redesign-auto-complete\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Waze update features redesign and auto complete&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":57400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2631],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-57397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwaze"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331641,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57397\/revisions\/331641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57397"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=57397"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=57397"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=57397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}