Waze has deliberately turned off almost all voice options

Waze is equipped with Coolwalk and that is a very welcome innovation, but it has also ensured that all kinds of things are no longer possible. It was long thought to be accidental, but Waze deliberately chose to disable most of the voice capabilities in the Android Auto version.

No more voice commands in Waze

One of the things many people liked about Waze was the ability to use it through the Google Assistant. Especially when you’re in the car, you want to keep your hands on the wheel. However, in many cases that is no longer possible, because if you already say something simple like ‘Navigate to Efteling’, Waze will refuse to do it. Not because he can hear you but just doesn’t want to travel to Kaatsheuvel, but because Waze has disabled all kinds of these very logical tricks.

It doesn’t seem to happen to everyone, but a lot of people have been struggling with the problem since the last update that their voice commands don’t seem to be coming in to Waze. Waze says only voice commands can be used to navigate to a preset “home” or work.

This is what Coolwalk looks like.

I’ll be back

Waze writes about it: “This is how Google Assistant in Waze on Android Auto is currently intended to work. “Drive home” and “Drive to work” are currently the only voice commands available in Waze on Android Auto. Our developers are working on implementing full Google Assistant functionality.”

Remarkable, because it was deliberately removed, but then it works to return the function to its full glory. Until then, we advise you to still type in the address where you want to go. We will keep a close eye on when Waze comes to its senses again, because it is a somewhat strange situation that something has been acted on purpose with something that the app apparently likes to make possible within the app. Not so cool, from Coolwalk.

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