When Should You Leave? Waze's 'Planned Drives' Will Tell You

Planning an of import trip? Waze wants to help take some of the stress away.

Connected Traveler The Google-endemic navigation app on Wednesday introduced a feature called Planned Drives for iOS, which volition tell you exactly when to go out to go there on time. Simply enter the fourth dimension and date you need to go far, and Waze will tell you lot when to get your barrel out the door.

The app will also send you a reminder closer to the outcome with an updated divergence time, based on real-time traffic conditions.

"Planned Drives also makes it easier to manage your time and schedule more than flexible to-dos (similar errands or road trips) to avoid traffic," the Waze squad wrote in a blog postal service.

To try out this new characteristic, but open up Waze and enter a destination in the search bar. Then, on the ETA panel, click the Planned Drives icon at the bottom left. The Planned Drives screen "opens and illustrates top traffic hours along your future route, taking into account expected traffic conditions based on smart algorithms, aggregated traffic history and predictive assay," the Waze team wrote.

Planned Drives is launching today on iOS, and volition be headed to Android "soon."

Waze has been busy as of late, recently updating its apps with a new, simplified user interface and some other pretty sweet characteristic: the ability to get directions from Morgan Freeman.

Meanwhile on the navigation front end, Nokia's quondam mapping and location business concern Here, now owned by European automobile makers Audi, BMW, and Daimler, on Wed appear it is dropping support for Windows 10 and seriously limiting its Windows 8 efforts.

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Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag's expert on fettle and smart dwelling house products. Educational activity yoga for nearly 10 years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected health products including fitness trackers, heart rate monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, strength training machines, treadmills, and more. Angela as well tests smart home devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, only to name a few.