{"id":242899,"date":"2026-07-13T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/waze-gets-a-less-chatty-update-personalized-routes\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T18:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:05:17","slug":"waze-gets-a-less-chatty-update-personalized-routes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/waze-gets-a-less-chatty-update-personalized-routes\/","title":{"rendered":"Waze Gets a &#8216;Less Chatty&#8217; Update, Personalized Routes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/roadshow\/news\/new-less-chatty-waze-update-personalized-routes-roll-out-globally\/\">Waze Gets a &#8216;Less Chatty&#8217; Update, Personalized Routes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/roadshow\/news\/new-less-chatty-waze-update-personalized-routes-roll-out-globally\/\">https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/roadshow\/news\/new-less-chatty-waze-update-personalized-routes-roll-out-globally\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-13 18:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnet.com\">www.cnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Less chatty navigation<\/strong>: Waze introduces a new \u201cless chatty\u201d mode that reduces the frequency and length of voice prompts, allowing users to customize the amount of spoken guidance they receive. Critical alerts will still be provided.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Personalized navigation<\/strong>: Waze&#8217;s personalized navigation option incorporates the user&#8217;s driving habits and preferences, showing preferred routes based on history. This feature is balanced to account for real-time traffic and road closures.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Gemini powered improvements<\/strong>: The new features are powered by Google&#8217;s Gemini AI, which enhances voice interactions and allows users to search for destinations through conversational voice commands.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Motorcycle-specific routing<\/strong>: In select markets, Waze is launching AI routing specifically optimized for motorcycle riders, taking into account narrow roads and motorcycle-specific hazards.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The updates are rolling out globally for Android and iOS users with a beta version required for the new Gemini destination search specifically in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waze Gets a &#8216;Less Chatty&#8217; Update, Personalized Routes https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/roadshow\/news\/new-less-chatty-waze-update-personalized-routes-roll-out-globally\/ Publish Date: 2026-07-13 18:00:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/16920489267d9f6b9fc3ab45954eb98486d488fd\/hub\/2020\/08\/13\/dfd28e8d-ee92-47c7-91d3-34e66b149472\/logolockup-02-04.png?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=675&width=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242901,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242899\/revisions\/242901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}