Waze as default browsing app. Step by step on Android

Quem usually uses navigation apps for your daily trips know well that the world is divided between fans of Google Maps and Waze. Despite Google Maps is a reliable offer when you're on foot or need to use public transport, Waze is really the best option if you're driving or driving.

If Waze is your platform of choice for car and motorcycle trips, it will certainly be very annoying to see that all the links you send on your Android phone are automatically opened on Google Maps – which requires you to manually enter your destination address in Waze, thus losing valuable seconds of travel.

Know that you can choose that Waze is automatically opened when you access links on your Android phone and for that you just have to go to device settings and force the operating system to know that this browsing app is your preference.

Below you can find our explanation for how to select Waze as your default browsing app.

How to have Waze as a default browsing app:

• Get in Definitions;
• Go to Apps;
• Get in Waze;
• If Waze is not presented immediately, enter View [number] apps;
• Press icon with magnifying glass in the upper right corner;
• Write Waze and enter the app;
• Select option Open by default;
• In the Links area to open on this app, select the addresses “maps.google.com” and “www.google.com”;
• This will cause Google location links to be opened directly in Waze;
• The last step you must take is to take the same route to the Definitions, enter into Apps and, this time, get in the Google Maps;
• Enter into Open by default;
• Press option Clear preset preferences, thus ensuring that Google Maps is no longer prioritized when it opens the link to a location.