Waze Audio Issues

[Longtime Lurker]

I have been using Waze for around a year without issue but since changing phones I have stated to have an issue which is really annoying, I was wondering if anyone else had experienced this and had a fix?

Until recently I had been using my phone (Samsung S8) connected to my car (Ford Mondeo) via Bluetooth to stream my music and had set the audio output on the Waze app to my phone handset so it didn’t keep cutting out my music to give me directions but instead used the phone speaker, this was perfect.

I recently started a new job and have inherited an iPhone 7 Plus but when I try to do the same with this phone it constantly reverts back to “Bluetooth” as the audio output, even when I change it in the app sometimes it’s the next time I open the app sometimes its midway through a journey, this is a real pain if I am listening to DAB on my car I don’t hear anything from Waze as my car stereo isn’t receiving Bluetooth audio when I am listening to DAB.

Has anyone had a similar issue? I have tried deleting the app and re installing and deleting my phone from my car and pairing them again but nothing seems to help.

[Mr Pointy]

Sounds like an iPhone/iOS issue rather than Waze. If it works with an Android phone & not with an iPhone that's a pretty big clue.

[Longtime Lurker]

Thanks for the reply, I would have thought that the setting in the app changing by itself would have been a Waze issue?

[littleredrooster]

Mine does the same - reverts to BT output seemingly at random. I haven't found a cure.