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 TomTom MyDrive
TomTom MyDrive is the easy way to set a destination, share locations and favourites, and save your
personal navigation information. MyDrive synchronises your TomTom GO BASIC using your TomTom
account. You can use MyDrive in a web browser on a computer or as a mobile app on a smartphone
or tablet.
Important: To use TomTom MyDrive you need a compatible navigation device.
Use TomTom MyDrive to do the following:
Find a destination on the MyDrive map and send it to your TomTom GO. You can drive to the
destination and it is also saved in My Places
and in Recent Destinations in the Main Menu.
Plan a route with stops on the MyDrive map and send it to your TomTom GO.
Sync community POI list files from the MyDrive map to your TomTom GO. The POI lists are
stored in My Places and the locations are shown on the map.
Find a POI in MyDrive and sync it with your TomTom GO.
Continually save all your locations in My Places to MyDrive. You can see all your My Places
locations on the MyDrive map.
Automatically restore your My Places locations and POIs from MyDrive to your TomTom GO after
a reset.
Logging in to MyDrive
You must log in to MyDrive to sync to your TomTom account. When you log in to your account from
your navigation device, web browser or the MyDrive app, syncing with your TomTom account
happens automatically.
Tip: Logging in to use MyDrive also logs you to use Updates and New Items.
Logging in to MyDrive on your TomTom GO
1. In the Main Menu, select Settings.
2. Select MyDrive.
3. Enter the email address and password you use for your TomTom account.
4. Select Log In.
Your TomTom GO connects to your TomTom account.
5. Return to the map view.
Your TomTom GO automatically saves your personal navigation information to your TomTom
account.
Tip: You'll also be asked to log in the first time you start your device, and when you use Updates
& New Items.
Logging in to MyDrive using a web browser or the MyDrive app
Log in using your TomTom account email address and password. When you are logged in, you can
see your personal navigation information from your navigation devices, and you can select
destinations and create Places to sync with your navigation devices.
Syncing using TomTom MyDrive