While there are several navigation apps compatible with Android Auto, I’ve already explained to you that it’s Waze we use and the reason for it: they allow me to see almost instantaneously the milestones happening on the road, from radars to radars. Dead animals to police teams. or vehicle debris. While it’s not much of a mystery to install Waze on your phone and then see it in Android Auto, and the app itself comes pretty well configured by default (it avoids unpaved roads or tricky intersections, for example), other Waze settings that I configure and recommend for their usefulness, functionality and how they improve my experience as a user

note: Proceed directly as the configuration in Android Auto on the console is quite limited to the basic minimum, so most options must be selected from the phone in order for them to be displayed later on the car screen.

Don’t be surprised by so many notifications.

When you first put Waze on Android Auto, an assistant who speaks around the clock: turning right, staying in left lane, radar alert… some of these indicators are useful to me, while others are excessive and tiresome.

One of the few things that can be edited from the car console is definitely Sounds and as you can see in these lines you have three options: ‘yes’, ‘alerts’ and ‘no’. In my case I selected ‘Alerts’ so I can look at the screen from time to time to find out when I should deviate or if I’m just doing well, but just in case There is a radar-like mishap on the road, report it loudly..

Choose your favorite assistant

The default voice assistant is Jane, an English speaking lady, but most likely you prefer to be spoken in your mother tongue. Likewise, you can choose whether the person giving you directions is a male or female voice.

You can select all these from the app by following the ‘ path and tapping the three-lined icon in the upper left corner.Settings‘ > ‘sound and voiceby clicking on ‘ and there ‘waze sound‘. In our case, we chose Basque-speaking Leire.

Set your home and work addresses

Setting home and work addresses as soon as possible will be beneficial for you to write down at least two frequently used addresses and to have reduced voice commands in the last Google update. You can use it with Waze on Android Auto, reducing them to two: carry home or go to work.

This is one of the first and most important settings recommended for use in Waze. To do this, after registering, tap on the icon of the three lines at the top and enter the ‘sections.House‘ And ‘Work‘. Once there, type the full address and save it. From then on, you can quickly select that destination with both keyboard and voice commands.

don’t go on throttle

I won’t fool you: It’s easy for me to forget the legal speed of the road and I have a tendency to step on it, so it’s for me It’s ideal for constantly seeing the pace that I’m predicted and going, avoiding problems and penalties..

But sometimes I’m focused and not looking at the screen, so it doesn’t hurt to have an extra audible alert to reinforce the alert. This can be done by entering the ‘Settings’ section of the app.speedometer‘ and there, verify that in addition to ‘show on map‘ checked and that’show speed limit‘set’Always‘, enter ‘Speed ​​limit’ and activate a band to sound the alarm. You can choose how many km/h above the limit will be warned or as a percentage. You also have a ‘Speed ​​Warning’ that warns if we exceed the prescribed limit.

no highway please

As I mentioned in the introduction, Waze comes with a convenient default configuration, but each person can adjust it to their own needs, preferences, and tastes, and mine is not to pay more when I travel, especially if the highway alternative is a highway.

To prevent Waze from showing me routes that contain sections that force me to open the wallet, I configured it like this: ‘Settings‘ > ‘Navigation‘ > ‘Avoid toll roads‘.

Goodbye Wazers

It’s a good thing so many people have Waze installed on their phones and use it for driving, as inevitable events on the road are quickly reported. But Waze has configured its app so that other users’ icons are displayed on the way (they can customize it, by the way), and while it’s visually fun, to distract and mislead us from the things that matter.

This can be easily removed: in ‘Settings‘ > ‘map screenremove the ‘,’Show wazers‘ and so you will no longer see them.

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