User manual
Table Of Contents
- Welcome to navigation with TomTom
- What's new
- Get going
- Connecting to TomTom services
- What's on the screen
- Traffic
- Setting your vehicle type
- 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
- 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
- Speed Cameras
- Danger 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
- Getting Help
- Product certification
- Updating using MyDrive Connect
- Addendum
- Copyright notices
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New in this release
Version 16.1
Connect to TomTom Services using a smartphone (TRUCKER 500 only)
The new TRUCKER 500 connects to TomTom services using a smartphone. The TRUCKER 500 has all
the same features as the 5000 and 6000 models.
To learn more go to Connecting to TomTom Services in this guide.
Record and export tracks, and import tracks and routes
You can now record a track while you drive, with or without a route planned. The track is saved in
My Routes.
You can export tracks as GPX files and save them on a memory card for sharing with other users.
You can import track GPX and route ITN files from a memory card and save them in My Routes.
To learn more go to My Routes in this guide.
Search for specific POI names using voice control
You can now use voice control to search for a specific POI using the POI brand name. For example,
when voice control is on, you can say "Find Starbucks".
To learn more go to Voice Control in this guide.
Other bug fixes and improvements
Various performance improvements and bug fixes have been implemented.
TomTom videos
You can find many videos on our YouTube channel to help you learn about your new TomTom
Trucker and other TomTom products. Visit www.youtube.com/user/TomTomOfficial/videos to find
out more!
Here are links to some videos that you might find interesting:
Tip: Look on the TomTom YouTube Channel for videos in your own language.
TomTom GO (English only)
Learn more about the GO here:
https://tomtom.dist.sdlmedia.com/Distributions/?o=5197E8C4-1943-40F0-A4E8-98A562AFAFCE
The all new TomTom GO - Guided Tour (English only)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSBSeYtGpuY
Using MyDrive
UK English:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIs5tGFhQIA
What's new