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Table Of Contents

Welcome to navigation with TomTom
What's new
- New in this release
- TomTom videos
Get going
- Installing in your car
- Positioning the device
- Switching on and off
- Setting up
- GPS reception
- Sending information to TomTom
- Memory card slot
- Device not starting
- Charging your device
- Caring for your START/VIA
What's on the screen
- The map view
- The guidance view
- The route bar
  - Distances and the route bar
- The quick menu
- Navigation buttons
- Other buttons
- Volume control
- Using gestures
- Changing the text and button size
- Reordering the Main Menu buttons
Syncing using TomTom MyDrive
- About TomTom MyDrive
- Logging in to your MyDrive account
- Setting a destination using MyDrive
- Showing a planned destination in My Drive
- Clearing a MyDrive destination
- Deleting a MyDrive destination from My Places
- Finding and syncing locations using MyDrive
- Syncing My Places locations with MyDrive
- Importing a community POI list - MyDrive - NOT CONNECTED
- Deleting a community POI list
- Importing a track GPX file
- Deleting a track GPX file
- Saving and restoring your personal navigation information
Using Quick Search
- About search
- Planning a route to a POI using search
- Entering search terms
- Working with search results
- About postcodes
- About mapcodes
- List of POI type icons
Planning a route
- Using suggested destinations
- Planning a route to an address using search
- Planning a route to a city centre
- Planning a route to a POI using search
- Planning a route using the map
- Planning a route using My Places
- Planning a route using coordinates
- Planning a route using a mapcode
- Finding an alternative route
- Planning a route in advance
- Finding a car park
- Finding a petrol station
Changing your route
- The Current Route menu
- Avoiding a blocked road
- Avoiding part of a route
- Types of route
- Route features
- Adding a stop to your route from the current route menu
- Adding a stop to your route using the map
- Deleting a stop from your route
- Skipping the next stop on your route
- Reordering stops on a route
My Routes
- About My Routes
- Saving a route
- Navigating using a saved route
- Navigating using a track
- Navigating to a stop on a saved route
- Adding a stop to a saved route using the map
- Deleting a route from My Routes
Map Share
- About Map Share
- Creating a map change report
- Creating a map change report from a marked location
- Types of map change
Traffic
- About RDS-TMC
- The route bar
- Looking at traffic on the map
- Looking at traffic on your route
- Traffic incidents
- Traffic jam warning
- Advanced Lane Guidance
- Time-dependent speed limits
Speed Cameras
- About speed cameras
- Crossing into another area or country
- Speed camera warnings
- Changing the way you are warned
- Updating locations for cameras and hazards
Danger Zones
- About danger zones
- Crossing into another area or country
- Danger zone warnings
- Changing the way you are warned
- Updating locations for danger zones
My Places
- About My Places
- Setting your home and work locations
- Changing your home location
- Adding a location from My Places
- Add a location to My Places from the map
- Adding a location to My Places using search
- Adding a location to My Places by marking
- Deleting a recent destination from My Places
- Deleting a location from My Places
Hands-free calling
- About hands-free calls
- Connecting to your phone
- Making a call
- Receiving a call
- Auto-answer
- Connecting more phones to your device
- Mobile phone menu
Settings
- Appearance
- Voices
- Maps
- Route Planning
- Sounds and Warnings
- Language and Units
- System
- Help
Getting Help
- Help
Product certification
- Finding product certification information on your device
Updating using MyDrive Connect
- About MyDrive Connect
- MyTomTom account
- Setting up MyDrive Connect
Addendum
Copyright notices

When the wide route bar is shown, you see more information about your route. For example, you see

time and distance to traffic queues and more.

Arrival information

Select Arrival information to change the following settings:

 Show remaining distance

Select this setting to show the remaining distance left to travel in the arrival information panel

during navigation.

 Show remaining time

Select this setting to show the remaining time left to travel in the arrival information panel during

navigation.

 Switch between distance and time automatically

Select this setting to control the automatic switching between remaining distance and remaining

time in the arrival information panel.

 Show arrival information for

Use this setting to control whether you want to see information about the destination or the next

stop in the arrival information panel.

Tip: To find out where the different panels are in the guidance view or map view, see What's on the

screen.

Route Information

You can choose to see any of the following in the route bar:

 Parking

Select this setting to see car parks and parking.

 Petrol stations

Select this setting to see petrol stations on your route.

 Stops