Use Waze offline - how it works

You can also use the popular Waze navigation solution offline to a limited extent. This reduces the data traffic on your smartphone and at the same time relieves the battery. In this practical tip, we will show you which trick you can use.

Use the Waze navigation app offline

Because Waze caches the route details, you can use the navigation offline.

1. To do this, start Waze on your smartphone.
2. Enter the address you want to navigate to.
3. Waze then calculates the route. When the process is finished, you can switch off the data connection.
4. Please note that you will not receive any updates on traffic jams or accidents with offline navigation.

Download traffic information with Waze and use it offline

You can also download the traffic information and make it available offline before departure:

1. In Waze, swipe from the left edge to the center to open the menu.
2. Then tap the gear icon in the top left.
3. Below is the item "Display and map settings".
4. Navigate here to the "Data transfer" option.
5. By ticking "Download traffic information", Waze also downloads the current traffic reports when calculating the route. These are also available offline.

This tip applies to Waze 4.29. You can find out how you can also use Google navigation offline in the next article.