Navigation app Waze will drop integration with Google Assistant on iOS due to ongoing app issues and user complaints. Instead, the assistant will remain available to Android users.
Many users have reported on Reddit that Google Assistant cannot hear iOS users, it can respond to the call "Hey, Google", but after that it does not detect the user's voice and the 4 colored dots just remain stationary.
The Waze development team said it will phase out the assistant and will eventually introduce an “improved voice interaction solution.” Starting in October 2024, Waze is also testing an AI-powered “Speech Notifications” feature that allows users to report road incidents by voice.
This decision makes sense as Google is ending support for its voice assistant in favor of Gemini AI, and it also means Google Assistant is losing some features that the company believes are unpopular with users.