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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Tip: The compass direction you are driving is shown in the switch view button below the small
compass arrow, for example, NE for North East. These compass directions automatically
appear when driving in North America and disappear if you leave North America.
2. Zoom buttons. Select the zoom buttons to zoom in and out.
Tip: On some devices you can also pinch to zoom in and out.
3. Instruction panel. This panel shows the following information:
The direction of your next turn.
The distance to your next turn.
The name of the next road on your route.
Lane guidance at some intersections.
Note: Select the instruction panel to see a list of turn-by-turn text instructions for your
planned route.
4. Route symbols. Symbols are used on your route to show your starting location, your stops, and
your destination.
5. Main Menu button. Select the button to show the Main Menu.
6. Speed panel. This panel shows the following information:
The speed limit at your location.
Your current speed. If you drive more than 3 mph (5 km/h) over the speed limit the speed
panel turns red. If you drive less than 3 mph (5 km/h) over the speed limit the speed panel
turns orange.
The name of the street you are driving on.
The safety camera report button.
7. Current location. This symbol shows your current location. Select the symbol or the speed panel
to open the quick menu.
Note: If your TomTom Rider cannot find your location the symbol appears gray.
Note: You cannot change the current location symbol.
8. Phone button.
9. Route bar. The route bar is shown when you have planned a route.
Important: To see a wider route bar showing additional route information, change the setting
for Route Information.
The route bar
The route bar is shown when you have planned a route. It has an arrival information panel at the
top, and a bar with symbols underneath.
Tip: You can also choose to see a wider route bar showing additional route information (not
available on all devices or apps).
Note: The distance ahead shown by the route bar depends on the overall length of your route.