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Here are some reasons why you might want to find an alternative route:

• You can see a roadblock or a line of traffic ahead.

• You want to travel via a particular location to pick someone up, stop for lunch or fill up

with petrol.

• You want to avoid a difficult junction or a busy narrow street.

To change your route, tap Find Alternative... in the Route Options

menu.

You can open the route options as follows:

Find Alternative

• Tap Route Options in the Main menu.

Tip: Route Options is only available when you have planned a route.

• Tap Options on the Route Summary screen after you plan a route.

• Tap the right hand section of the status bar in the Driving View to

Then select one of the following options:

Tap this button to re-plan your route based on the latest traffic

information.

This button is only available if you have a subscription to TomTom

Minimise Delays

Traffic.

Tap this button to calculate an alternative to the current route.

The TomTom app looks for another route from your current location

to your destination.

Calculate

Alternative

If you decide you would prefer to use the original route after all, tap

Recalculate Original.

Apart from the roads near your position and near your destination,

the new route uses totally different roads to reach your destination.

This is an easy way of calculating a totally different route.

Tap this button to return to the original route. This ignores any

previous instructions you have given to avoid roadblocks or travel

via a particular location.

Recalculate

Original

Tap this button if you can see a roadblock or a line of traffic ahead.

You then have to choose how much of the route ahead you want to

avoid.

Avoid

Choose from the different options available. The TomTom app

Roadblock

recalculates your route avoiding the section of the route for the

distance you selected.

Don't forget that once a new route is calculated, you may have to

turn off the road you are on very soon.

If the roadblock suddenly clears, tap Recalculate Original to return

to your original route.

open the Route Summary screen, then tap Options.