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
TomTom MyDrive is the easy way to set a destination, share locations and favorites, and save your
personal navigation information. MyDrive synchronizes your TomTom Rider 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 Rider. 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 Rider.
Sync community POI list files from the MyDrive map to your TomTom Rider. 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 Rider.
Continuously 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 Rider
after a reset.
To activate MyDrive on your TomTom Rider, you must be connected to TomTom services.
Important: On device models TomTom START 42/52, TomTom START 40/50/60, and TomTom GO
51/61, the screen intentionally dims when you connect your device to your computer.
Logging into TomTom MyDrive
You must log into TomTom MyDrive to sync to your TomTom account. When you log into your
account from your navigation device, web browser, or the TomTom MyDrive app, syncing with your
TomTom account happens automatically.
Tip: Logging in to use TomTom MyDrive also logs you in to receive Updates and New Items.
Logging into TomTom MyDrive on your TomTom Rider
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 Rider connects to your TomTom account.
5. Return to the map view.
Your TomTom Rider 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.
TomTom MyDrive