Overview
- Waze announced the changes Monday, July 13, 2026, and has begun rolling out personalized route suggestions and a new 'less chatty' voice mode globally on Android and iOS.
- Gemini powers a conversational Destination Search that accepts natural‑language voice queries but is limited to the Waze beta community for now.
- Conversational Reporting now accepts spoken suggestions for map edits, such as road closures or outdated addresses, and forwards those suggestions to local map editors for verification.
- Motorcycle Mode uses AI routing tuned for two‑wheelers and flags hazards like potholes, speed bumps and narrow bridges, and it is available in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru and the Philippines.
- Waze keeps its crowdsourced map model and lets users opt out of personalization, a design that aims to preserve human verification and address accuracy and privacy concerns while expanding AI features.