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United States

4.84★ from 3,189,702 ratings · version 5.23.0.1 · 59 of the last 95 written reviews are one or two stars

App renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America

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Users are deleting the app because Waze renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America, calling it political theater and inaccurate geography.

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“Lake America? — I’ve used Waze for years, but renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America” is where I’m done. A navigation app should provide accurate geographic information, not rewrite established place names for political theater. I find this change offensive, embarrassing, and completely inappropriate. You’ve lost a longtime user. I’ll be taking my navigation needs elsewhere.” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Inaccurate maps — Lake Ontario seems to be missing its name on the map in your app. Is this company cowards that cave to criminal governments?” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Deleting app — Going to use a different app that properly names bodies of water and doesn’t give in the BS political agendas” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English

Navigation sends users to wrong locations

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App directs users to wrong addresses, such as nearby houses instead of the actual destination, making it unreliable for time-sensitive work.

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“Worst navigator app ever — Takes you to the middle of nowhere. Dosent even take you to the actual house it takes your somewhere around that and you have to find it yourself. Terrible app it should be deleted from the App Store. Go use any other navigation system” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Misdirection — The last couple of times I used it to help me get to businesses/locations, such as an education center or golf course, it sent me to someone’s house! I can’t rely on this as my jobs are time sensitive” — ★★☆☆☆ · English“No longer accurate. — They started mislabeling important places.” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English

No network error prevents route calculation

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App repeatedly shows a no network error when trying to calculate routes, even though the user's internet connection is working fine.

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“Cannot use Waze due to no network error — I’ve been wanting to try Waze for the past 3 months and have attempted to use it periodically throughout this time period. However every time I use the app I cannot do a route anywhere due to: “no network: route may not be accurate. // This route and traffic will be automatically updated when you’re back online.” The issue is, I am online—connected to either cellular and or…” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Can’t use the app most the time — App majority of the time tells me that there’s no network available or no connection. Something along those lines. But my connection is fine and I can use Apple Maps.” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“What’s with “No Network “? — Isn’t there anyone left to test before a release, AI slop cutting it? Keep getting “no network” error multiple times just while calculating route then drops, what’s going on?” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English

Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 59 most recent negative ones. Newest review 2 days ago (07.09.2026), last collected yesterday.

France

4.73★ from 466,088 ratings · version 5.23.0.1 · 19 of the last 72 written reviews are one or two stars

Not enough negative reviews here to group anything honestly. There are 19, and the threshold is twelve.

Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 19 most recent negative ones. Newest review yesterday (08.09.2026), last collected today.

Britain

4.77★ from 163,219 ratings · version 5.23.0.1

We have not read this app's reviews yet. Apple rations that feed to about one page per address every ten minutes and refuses datacentre addresses, so the reading is done by hand — the rating above is live, the complaints are not there yet.

Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 0 most recent negative ones. Newest review never, last collected never.

Germany

4.61★ from 19,539 ratings · version 5.23.0.1

We have not read this app's reviews yet. Apple rations that feed to about one page per address every ten minutes and refuses datacentre addresses, so the reading is done by hand — the rating above is live, the complaints are not there yet.

Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 0 most recent negative ones. Newest review never, last collected never.

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