How to add stops on Waze, and drive a route with many.
Waze lets you add one stop to a drive, before your destination. That's plenty for gas or coffee, and not enough for a day of 12 customers. Here's how to add the stop, and how to drive a longer route in Waze one stop at a time.
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The short answer
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To add a stop on Waze, start driving to your destination, tap the ETA at the bottom of the screen, tap Add a stop, and choose the place. Waze allows one stop per drive, placed before your destination, so a day with more stops means opening them in Waze one at a time. Lite Route Planner puts your stops in a short order and opens each one in Waze with a tap from your phone's browser, free for up to 50 addresses.
How to add a stop on Waze
These steps are for the Waze phone app. On CarPlay and Android Auto, search for the place and choose Add a stop.
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Start your drive
Search for your destination and start navigating to it.
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Tap the ETA
It's at the bottom of the screen, where Waze shows your arrival time.
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Tap Add a stop
Search for a place, or pick one of the suggested categories, such as gas or food.
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Choose the stop and confirm
Waze puts the stop before your destination and works out the new drive.
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Remove it if plans change
Tap the ETA, tap the stop, then tap Remove. Waze only lets you remove the first stop in a drive.
Why Waze stops at one
Waze is built to get you to one place by the best way right now, not to hold a list. Its own help says it plainly: you can only add one stop per route, and to go somewhere else, you start a new drive.
For gas on the way to a job, that's all you need. For a carpet cleaner with nine homes, or a courier with 30 drops, it means the list and the order have to live somewhere else, and Waze takes you from each stop to the next.
Drive a full route in Waze, one stop at a time
This is how people drive Lite routes with Waze. It works on iPhone and Android, with nothing to install.
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Plan and optimize the route
Add your stops to Lite, lasso them into a route and press Optimize.
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Open the route on your phone
Sign in from your phone's browser with the code we email you, and choose Waze as your navigation app once.
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Tap the first stop
Waze opens with that stop as the destination. Drive it as usual.
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Mark it, then tap the next one
When you're done, switch back to the browser, mark the stop Visited or Attempted, add a note if you need one, and tap the next stop.
The driver app
Your drivers keep Waze. You keep the plan.
On Business, each driver signs in to the driver app with a code sent to their email: no password, and nothing to download. Their routes are waiting in order, with drive time and distance between stops. One tap opens a stop in Waze, Google Maps or Apple Maps, whichever they prefer, and when they mark a stop Visited or Attempted, you see it in the planner within seconds.
Tips for multi-stop days in Waze
Save Waze's one stop for extras
Need gas or lunch between customers? Add it as Waze's one stop on the way to the next customer, so the customer stays the destination.
Re-optimize when the day changes
A cancellation or a last-minute add? Change the route and press Optimize again. Every plan has unlimited optimizations.
Know the day's length before you leave
Set a default time at each stop, and the day's total adds time on site to the drive time.
Share it with whoever rides along
A share link or QR code shows a helper or a fill-in driver the stops in order, with directions, and no account. Share links are view-only.