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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
What's on the screen
- The map view
- The guidance view
- The route bar
  - Distances and the route bar
- The quick menu
- Navigation buttons
- Main Menu smaller buttons and symbols
- 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 TomTom account
- Setting a destination using MyDrive
- Planning a route with stops 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
- Avoiding a route feature on your route
- 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
- About GPX and ITN files
- Saving a route
- Navigating using a saved route
- Navigating to a stop on a saved route
- Adding a stop to a saved route using the map
- Recording a track
- Navigating using a track
- Deleting a route or a track from My Routes
- Exporting tracks to a memory card
- Importing routes and tracks from a memory card
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
- Approaching a traffic jam warning
- Avoiding a traffic jam on your route
- 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
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
- TomTom account
- Setting up MyDrive Connect
Addendum
Copyright notices

Slow traffic

Unknown accident

Unknown incident

Roadworks

Lane closure

Road closure

Weather symbols:

Wind

Rain

Fog

Snow

Ice

Approaching a traffic jam warning

A warning is given as you approach a traffic jam. You are warned in several ways: