iOS beta 3.5.99.8 feedback thread

[AlanOfTheBerg]

Waze continues to do a poor job in areas with low reception. If the duration of network loss exceeds a certain number of minutes the app never recovers the network connection. You have to close the app and restart.

Have you tried toggling airplane mode on/off briefly, that usually works for me?

Yes. What I find interesting is that the app will sometimes then remove the "Searching network..." notice, but if I try to post a report, it still pops up with "no network connection." Other times, it still shows searching. Either way, after about 20-30 minutes, Waze will never reconnect in my experience. This is going on 2 years of this bad behavior.

[AlanOfTheBerg]

The current method for determining what streetnames are shown on-screen needs some tweaking, IMO. There are now too few street names, the one or two which do appear are either such minor streets that 90% of traffic doesn't drive on them, or they are duplicated with the purple street names for the current route.

For example, permalink location, I would remove the "SW Friendly" street name. It's a dead-end very minor road. There is no purpose to it's name being shown. However, the primary streets should definitely be considered for display, especially if they are connected to the current route. Major roads are much better "landmarkers" or "guide roads" than a dead-end street.

Here's my mock up showing names which should be displayed instead:

Mock up of how/which streetnames to show

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And here is another example of duplicated streetnames making a mess on the map. If it's already showing in purple, don't show it in black/regular name display:

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[sketch]

I did a search for the "safeway" grocery store yesterday to add as a stop point. Waze jumped straight to my contacts to show my a single result: "Keith Stokes" I found multiple hits for "safeway" under bing, foursquare, etc., so why did Waze jump directly to contacts?

Same thing here..."Mcdonalds" brought me to an e-mail link for my office e-mail.

I'm having the same problem with a number of searches.

The Contacts search should only search the name field of the contacts, IMO. Further, Contact results should not be prioritized over other results, especially when the search does not include the name of any contact. The best results seem to come from Foursquare, FWIW...

[scarlogarcia]

Sent "my location" from "send location" feature. That location is a no named parking lot saved to my favorites as "Work".

My SMS message doesn't really inform where I am but only a blank space.

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[jasonh300]

Sent "my location" from "send location" feature. That location is a no named parking lot saved to my favorites as "Work".

My SMS message doesn't really inform where I am but only a blank space.

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Does it normally put something there other than the URL link? If so, I'm not sure what else it could put if you're on an unnamed road. Is there anything in the City field on that road?

[scarlogarcia]

There is a parking lot without name but with city field filled.

I understand your point but I was expecting something like this:

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[scarlogarcia]

What do you mean by "is that expected". Also, why do you have a stop point flag? Did you add a stop?

Sorry, I didn't describe.

I was making a randomly and crazy test. So, I set a "start point" (not a stop point) and a destination. What I mean for "expected"? I got my "highlighted route" not fitted to my start and destination point. Since that rout of 120 meters had its highlighted route totally outside of my points.

I never made such test before so I don't know if it is related to this beta version or not. If not, please ignore my post.

Couldn't reproduce. If you have exact steps to reproduce it, please share.

As described by Davidt here viewtopic.php?f=373&t=40677&start=30#p371065

That route must be very short, less than 700 meters I guess.

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Similar behavior was observed for long routes at the beginning of a run when I got an instruction "proceed to the highlighted route". Noticed that last behavior in all non-beta version of of Waze as far as I can remember.

Do you want me to document this last "bug" when it happens?

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[kieranrawley]

I planned a long route with a stop to meet my my dad. The nav line was spot on but the associated timings/ distances were wildly inaccurate. Stop 1 min from now and 500+ miles?

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On a separate note I was offered two different journey lengths with the same timing.

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[kieranrawley]

Not sure where my photos are in the previous post.

[perlin]

The current method for determining what streetnames are shown on-screen needs some tweaking, IMO

I agree with you on that and I've passed your suggestions on to the relevant people.