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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.
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