User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Welcome to navigation with TomTom
- Features
- Get going
- TomTom services
- Connecting a smartphone
- Wi-Fi connection
- What's on the screen
- Traffic
- Syncing using TomTom MyDrive
- About TomTom MyDrive
- Logging in to MyDrive
- Road Trips collection - sending a route to your device
- Road Trips collection - planning a route to a stop
- Setting a destination using MyDrive
- Planning a route with stops using MyDrive
- Showing a planned destination in MyDrive
- Clearing a MyDrive destination
- Deleting a MyDrive destination from My Places
- Set a phone contact as your destination using the MyDrive app
- Finding and syncing locations using MyDrive
- Syncing My Places locations with MyDrive
- Importing a community POI list
- Deleting a community POI list
- Importing a track GPX file
- Deleting a track GPX file
- Saving and restoring your personal navigation information
- Quick search
- Choosing which search to use
- Using quick search
- Planning a route using quick search
- Using destination prediction
- Planning a route to an address
- Planning a route to a city centre
- Planning a route to a POI
- Planning a route to a POI using online search
- Planning a route using the map
- Planning a route using My Places
- Planning a route using coordinates
- Planning a route using a mapcode
- Planning a route in advance
- Finding a car park
- Finding a petrol station
- Step by step search
- Choosing which search to use
- Using step by step search
- Planning a route using step by step search
- Using destination prediction
- Planning a route to an address
- Planning a route to a POI
- Planning a route to a city centre
- Planning a route to a POI using online search
- Planning a route using the map
- Planning a route using My Places
- Planning a route using coordinates using step by step search
- 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
- Finding an alternative route
- Types of route
- Avoiding features on a route
- Avoiding an incident or route feature using the route bar
- 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
- Speed Cameras
- Danger Zones
- My Places
- About My Places
- Setting your home or work location
- 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
- Using community POI lists
- Smartphone notifications
- Settings
- Getting Help
- Product certification
- Using MyDrive Connect
- TomTom account
- Addendum
- Copyright notices
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About MyDrive Connect
The quickest and easiest way to keep your TomTom GO up to date is to use a Wi-Fi connection.
If you are unable to connect to the internet using Wi-Fi or you prefer to use a different method, you
can connect to the internet using a USB connection to a computer. To connect your TomTom GO to
the internet, MyDrive Connect must be installed on the computer.
Note: You cannot use MyDrive Connect to manage your device.
Setting up MyDrive Connect
To get ready to use MyDrive Connect for the first time, do the following:
On your computer, open a web browser and go to tomtom.com/mydrive-connect
.
1. Click Download for Mac or Download for Windows.
2. Save the downloaded file.
3. Double click to open the downloaded file.
4. Follow the instructions on the screen to install MyDrive Connect.
5. Choose your settings for automatic startup and updates.
6. Click OK.
You can now access MyDrive Connect from the notification area on your desktop.
MyDrive Connect starts automatically when you connect your TomTom GO to your computer.
Connecting to the internet using MyDrive Connect
If you are unable to connect to the internet using Wi-Fi you can install updates and new items using
a USB connection to a computer.
While connected, you can also Sync using TomTom MyDrive
.
To connect to the internet using USB, do the following:
1. Make sure MyDrive Connect
is installed on your computer.
2. Make sure your computer has a working internet connection.
3. Connect your TomTom GO to your computer using the USB cable supplied, then switch your
TomTom GO on.
MyDrive Connect starts automatically and shares your computer's internet with your device.
Note: Use ONLY the USB cable supplied with your TomTom GO. Other USB cables may not
work.
Note: You cannot use the mount to connect your TomTom GO to your computer.
Note: You should plug the USB cable directly into a USB port on your computer and not into a
USB hub or USB port on a keyboard or monitor.
4. Install your updates and new items on your TomTom GO.
Using MyDrive Connect