Checking traffic incidents in your area, Traffic sidebar colors – TomTom GO EN User Manual

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3. Tap Work to home.

The driving view is shown. If the Traffic sidebar shows any delays on your

route, tap the Traffic sidebar and then Minimize traffic delays to see your

fastest route to home.

Checking traffic incidents in your area

Get an overview of the traffic situation in your area, using the map. To find

local incidents and their details, do the following:

Traffic sidebar colors

The Traffic sidebar changes colors depending on how old the traffic

information is on your device. The sidebar colors are:

Note: The traffic information on your device is updated automatically and the

Traffic sidebar will normally remain dark blue. However, it is possible that the

device might not update traffic information. This may happen if, for example,

there is no or poor network coverage in your area, or if you are driving in a

country other than the one for which you purchased TomTom Traffic.

Browse map

1. Tap TomTom Traffic in the Main Menu.
2. Tap Browse map.

The map browser screen is shown.

3. Tap the blue compass image in the top right of the screen.

The map centers itself on you current location and any traffic incidents in

the area are shown.

4. Tap on any traffic incident to get more information.

A screen is shown that gives you detailed information about the incident

you chose. To display information about surrounding incidents use the

left and right arrows at the bottom of this screen.

Dark blue - The traffic information on your device is up to date.

Lilac - The traffic information on your device has not been

updated for at least 10 minutes. Traffic still warns you about traffic

incidents, but the information is at least ten minutes old.

Grey - The traffic information on your device has not been

updated for at least 15 minutes. Traffic will only warn you about

traffic incidents once it has been able to update this information.

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