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Table Of Contents

Welcome to navigation with TomTom
What's new
- New in this release
- TomTom videos
Get going
- Installing in your vehicle
- Positioning the device
- Switching on and off
- Safety Notice
- Setting up
- GPS reception
- Sending information to TomTom
- Memory card slot
- Device not starting
- Charging your device
- Caring for your Trucker
Connecting to TomTom services
- About TomTom services
- Always-connected devices
- Smartphone connected devices
What's on the screen
- The map view
- The guidance view
- The route bar
  - Distances and the route bar
- The quick menu
- Navigation buttons
- Main Menu smaller buttons and symbols
- Volume control
- Using gestures
- Changing the text and button size
- Reordering the Main Menu buttons
Traffic
- About TomTom Traffic
- About RDS-TMC
- The route bar
- Looking at traffic on the map
- Looking at traffic on your route
- Traffic incidents
- Approaching a traffic jam warning
- Avoiding a traffic jam on your route
- Advanced Lane Guidance
- Time-dependent speed limits
Setting your vehicle type
- About My Vehicle
- Setting your vehicle type
- Planning a route for a Bus or Truck
- Viewing route restrictions
Syncing using TomTom MyDrive
- About TomTom MyDrive
- Logging in to MyDrive
- 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
Using Quick Search
- About search
- Planning a route to a POI using search
- Planning a route to a POI using online search
- Entering search terms
- Working with search results
- About postcodes
- About mapcodes
- List of POI type icons
Planning a route
- Using suggested destinations
- Planning a route to an address using search
- Planning a route to a city centre
- Planning a route to a POI using search
- 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
- Finding an alternative route
- 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
- Types of route
- Route features
- Avoiding a route feature on your route
- 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
Voice control (Speak&Go)
- About voice control
- Starting voice control
- Making your own wake-up phrase
- The voice control screen
- Some tips for using voice control
- What you can use voice control for
- Saying commands in different ways
- Entering an address using voice control
- Going to home using voice control
- Going to a POI using voice control
- Changing a setting using voice control
Map Share
- About Map Share
- Creating a map change report
- Creating a map change report from a marked location
- Types of map change
Speed Cameras
- About speed cameras
- Crossing into another area or country
- Speed camera warnings
- Changing the way you are warned
- Reporting a new speed camera
- Confirm or remove a mobile speed camera
- Updating locations for cameras and hazards
Danger Zones
- About danger zones and risk zones
- Crossing into another area or country
- Danger zone and risk zone warnings
- Changing the way you are warned
- Reporting a risk zone
- Updating locations for danger zones and risk zones
My Places
- About My Places
- Setting your home and work locations
- 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
Settings
- My Vehicle
- Appearance
- Voices
- Voice Control
- Maps
- Route Planning
- Sounds and Warnings
- Language and Units
- System
- Help
Getting Help
- Help
Product certification
- Finding product certification information on your device
Updating using MyDrive Connect
- About MyDrive Connect
- TomTom account
- Setting up MyDrive Connect
Addendum
Copyright notices

Contents

Welcome to navigation with TomTom 7

What's new 8

New in this release ................................................................................................ 8

TomTom videos .................................................................................................... 8

Get going 10

Installing in your vehicle ....................................................................................... 10

Positioning the device .......................................................................................... 10

Switching on and off ............................................................................................ 10

Safety Notice ..................................................................................................... 11

Setting up ......................................................................................................... 11

GPS reception .................................................................................................... 11

Sending information to TomTom .............................................................................. 11

Memory card slot ................................................................................................ 12

Device not starting .............................................................................................. 12

Charging your device ............................................................................................ 12

Caring for your Trucker ......................................................................................... 12

Connecting to TomTom services 13

About TomTom services ........................................................................................ 13

Always-connected devices ..................................................................................... 13

Smartphone connected devices ............................................................................... 13

Personal Area Networks .................................................................................... 13

Connect to TomTom services using your smartphone ................................................. 14

Reconnecting your smartphone ........................................................................... 14

Connect to TomTom services using a different smartphone ......................................... 15

Deleting phones .............................................................................................. 15

Unable to get a connection ................................................................................ 15

What's on the screen 17

The map view..................................................................................................... 17

The guidance view ............................................................................................... 18

The route bar ..................................................................................................... 20

Distances and the route bar ............................................................................... 21

The quick menu .................................................................................................. 21

Navigation buttons............................................................................................... 21

Main Menu smaller buttons and symbols ..................................................................... 23

Volume control ................................................................................................... 25

Using gestures .................................................................................................... 25

Changing the text and button size ............................................................................ 26

Reordering the Main Menu buttons ........................................................................... 26

Traffic 27

About TomTom Traffic .......................................................................................... 27

About RDS-TMC ................................................................................................... 27

The route bar ..................................................................................................... 27

Looking at traffic on the map ................................................................................. 28