# How yo reply to private message on waze?
**URL:** https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/how-yo-reply-to-private-message-on-waze/78564
**Category:** General Topics
**Created:** [December 24, 2012, 10:38pm UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/how-yo-reply-to-private-message-on-waze/78564 "2012-12-24T22:38:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Reef\_Kish](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/Reef_Kish)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2012, 10:38pm UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/how-yo-reply-to-private-message-on-waze/78564/1 "2012-12-24T22:38:54Z")
I got a private message but have no way to reply, Or to find user ?
What can I do ?
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### Author:  [@AlanOfTheBerg](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/AlanOfTheBerg)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2012, 10:57pm UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/how-yo-reply-to-private-message-on-waze/78564/2 "2012-12-24T22:57:55Z")
You have to reply to the popup while its on the screen. The inbox in the app doesn’t have a reply function yet.
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### Author:  [@angell18](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/angell18)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2014, 4:40am UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/how-yo-reply-to-private-message-on-waze/78564/3 "2014-04-13T04:40:10Z")
I too would like to know not just how to reply to private messages via inbox, but also how to add people that you see on the map as friends.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@yanq7](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/yanq7)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2014, 11:33pm UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/how-yo-reply-to-private-message-on-waze/78564/4 "2014-05-07T23:33:50Z")
Thank you to AlanOfTheBerg who answered the question asked by reef\_kish. I had the same question and have found it answered here.
Now that it’s 1 1/2 years since the original post, I would have hoped that the Waze app would have a reply function in the inbox for replying to private messages, but it doesn’t. I’ll bring this up when I rate this fabulous app.
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### Author:  [@piersonrife](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/piersonrife)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2014, 2:51am UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/how-yo-reply-to-private-message-on-waze/78564/5 "2014-05-09T02:51:31Z")
What is the point of allowing PM functionality, if you can’t use it easily. Being forced to reply when the popup shows on the screen (since there is no other way to reply) is promoting texting while driving, which is illegal. This is something that needs to be implemented into the next update.
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### Author:  [@AlanOfTheBerg](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/AlanOfTheBerg)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2014, 4:24pm UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/how-yo-reply-to-private-message-on-waze/78564/6 "2014-05-19T16:24:31Z")
That I know of, inbox functionality enhancements are not on the current roadmap.
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### Author:  [@KingOfAtari](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/KingOfAtari)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2014, 10:00pm UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/how-yo-reply-to-private-message-on-waze/78564/7 "2014-08-15T22:00:02Z")
This is a weird thing to leave as-is. Today I received three messages to discuss an issue I reported, but I was on the phone at the time and couldn’t respond.
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### Author:  [@AlanOfTheBerg](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/AlanOfTheBerg)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2014, 4:48pm UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/how-yo-reply-to-private-message-on-waze/78564/8 "2014-08-18T16:48:43Z")
> [@DekeTundra](#):
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> This is a weird thing to leave as-is. Today I received three messages to discuss an issue I reported, but I was on the phone at the time and couldn’t respond.
This kind of message you can reply to in the inbox in the app, as long as the report is still open and has not been closed.
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### Author:  [@marcedli](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/marcedli)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2014, 7:46pm UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/how-yo-reply-to-private-message-on-waze/78564/9 "2014-08-24T19:46:47Z")
The developers know about the problem, hopefully it will be corrected for the next version.
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### Author:  [@AB1304](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/AB1304)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2014, 3:01pm UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/how-yo-reply-to-private-message-on-waze/78564/10 "2014-08-27T15:01:09Z")
Need to be fixed ASAP. Today I was driving on german autobahn. Message pops up and dissapears when directions was shown. Speed about 120kmh. NO POSSIBLE WAY to reply with that speed. No way to reply in inbox. WTH ?
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### Author:  [@AlanOfTheBerg](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/AlanOfTheBerg)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2014, 2:35am UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/how-yo-reply-to-private-message-on-waze/78564/11 "2014-09-01T02:35:21Z")
> [@AB1304](#):
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> Need to be fixed ASAP. Today I was driving on german autobahn. Message pops up and dissapears when directions was shown. Speed about 120kmh. NO POSSIBLE WAY to reply with that speed. No way to reply in inbox. WTH ?
Not that it is an excuse, but it has been this way a long time. Also, thanks for reading the post just before yours which explains what’s going on.
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### Author:  [@AB1304](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/AB1304)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2014, 11:16am UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/how-yo-reply-to-private-message-on-waze/78564/12 "2014-10-02T11:16:55Z")
Version 3.9. Now I cant write message even from friendlist. Actually there is no friendlist anymore.
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### Author:  [@findnemo](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/findnemo)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2015, 2:48pm UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/how-yo-reply-to-private-message-on-waze/78564/13 "2015-05-08T14:48:44Z")
A thread since 2012 and today is May 2015. I do not have ability to reply inbox on Waze App. Even cant reply to my friends or discuss reports with editors. NOTHING. I got instruction from editor but it a ghost button that I cannot find. I am using Iphone 5s on IOS 8.XXXXXXX
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### Author:  [@Mannyack](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/Mannyack)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2015, 1:08am UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/how-yo-reply-to-private-message-on-waze/78564/14 "2015-07-07T01:08:48Z")
Agreed I met a fellow wazer and he somehow pmed me hello and I had no way of knowing how A) he pmed me in the first place whilst driving B) how to respond. I did see the bubble but my response didn’t go threw because of Internet connection I get home and now I’m here.
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### Author:  [@JekaGame89](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/JekaGame89)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2015, 8:42pm UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/how-yo-reply-to-private-message-on-waze/78564/15 "2015-07-26T20:42:23Z")
can reply in the inbox
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### Author:  [@vmi-who](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/vmi-who)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2015, 1:23am UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/how-yo-reply-to-private-message-on-waze/78564/16 "2015-09-06T01:23:22Z")
Still seems to not be fixed…over 12 months now. Really? Maybe consider disabling messaging altogether? Not being able to reply maskes messages as close to useless as you can get.
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### Author:  [@TammyReznick-Copeland](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/TammyReznick-Copeland)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2015, 8:05pm UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/how-yo-reply-to-private-message-on-waze/78564/17 "2015-09-15T20:05:29Z")
Still not working! I needed to respond to this person!
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### Author:  [@SmartDriverSunny6](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/SmartDriverSunny6)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 10:33pm UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/how-yo-reply-to-private-message-on-waze/78564/18 "2015-10-13T22:33:04Z")
I could reply not so long ago, replied to an editor. Just received another message in my inbox after requesting a change, and now I cannot reply from the inbox or from the link shared in the email received!!
what is happening?
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### Author:  [@vince1612](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/vince1612)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2015, 4:55am UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/how-yo-reply-to-private-message-on-waze/78564/19 "2015-10-14T04:55:42Z")
> [@SmartDriverSunny6](#):
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> Just received another message in my inbox after requesting a change, and now I cannot reply from the inbox or from the link shared in the email received!!
>
> what is happening?
Check the location of your Update Request on Waze Map Editor. If the reply function in the app inbox is locked, it might be that your UR was closed on WME.
If you wanted to give more information you might have to contact the editor who closed it by sending him a private message here on the forum.
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### Author:  [@kitkat0203](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/kitkat0203)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2015, 1:41pm UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/how-yo-reply-to-private-message-on-waze/78564/20 "2015-10-28T13:41:30Z")
so still no way to reply to a private message unless you respond to a pop up? really Waze? no bueno :?
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