User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Welcome to navigation with TomTom
- What's new
- Installing your Rider
- Connecting a headset
- TomTom services
- Connecting a smartphone
- Wi-Fi connection
- Using your Rider
- What's on the screen
- Calls and smartphone notifications
- Traffic
- TomTom MyDrive
- About TomTom MyDrive
- Logging into TomTom 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
- Choosing where you want to start driving a route
- 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 center
- 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 parking lot
- Finding a gas 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 city center
- 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 using step-by-step search
- Planning a route in advance
- Finding a parking lot
- Finding a gas 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
- Adding to My Routes using MyDrive
- 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
- Importing routes from your computer using USB
- 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
- Map Share
- Safety Cameras
- Settings
- Getting Help
- UsingTomTom MyDrive Connect
- Addendum
- Copyright notices
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About TomTom MyDrive Connect
The quickest and easiest way to keep your TomTom Rider 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 Rider
to the internet, TomTom MyDrive Connect must be installed on the computer.
Note: You cannot use TomTom MyDrive Connect to manage your device.
Setting up TomTom MyDrive Connect
To get ready to use TomTom 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 TomTom MyDrive Connect.
5. Choose your settings for automatic start-up and updates.
6. Click OK.
You can now access TomTom MyDrive Connect from the notification area on your desktop.
TomTom MyDrive Connect starts automatically when you connect your TomTom Rider to your
computer.
Connecting to the internet using TomTom 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.
To connect to the internet using USB, do the following:
1. Make sure TomTom MyDrive Connect is installed on your computer.
2. Make sure your computer has a working internet connection.
3. Connect your TomTom Rider to your computer using the USB cable supplied, then switch your
TomTom Rider on.
TomTom MyDrive Connect starts automatically and shares your computer's internet with your
device.
Note: Use ONLY the USB cable supplied with your TomTom Rider. Other USB cables may not
work.
Note: You cannot use the mount to connect your TomTom Rider 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 Rider.
UsingTomTom MyDrive Connect