Adding Items and Services

The range of items and services that you can add to your device includes:

Adding new items

New items are always added to the active install location.

HOME helps you during the installation of new items, including making suggestions for freeing up more space if needed. For example, HOME may ask you to use the empty memory card slot on your navigation device for installing new items if you have one. Alternatively, if you have unused items, HOME may suggest that you remove these from your device in order to free up more space.

HOME also supplies useful information such as how big your new items are and how much space you need to free up to make them fit on your navigation device.

Note: If you need to free up more space for new items at any time, you can do this by moving older items from your device to your computer. If you remove items from your device, HOME automatically asks if you want to save a copy on your computer. See Manage my device.

Note: Photos and mp3 files are not automatically suggested in the list of unused items but you can remove them yourself if you need to free up space.

Adding new services

You can use TomTom HOME to buy or subscribe to TomTom Services. Some services are available for free and can be downloaded using HOME.

Note: You must login to your TomTom account in order to download any services or items.

Other services are updated automatically whenever you connect your device to your computer. See descriptions of each service for details about which services are downloaded automatically.

When you buy a TomTom service, TomTom HOME will download and install the service on your TomTom navigation device for you. You can then start using your new service immediately.

Note: If a download is interrupted for any reason, click Update my device in the main menu in HOME. You can  then see your partially downloaded item in the list and continue the download.

Updating new services

Every time you connect your TomTom device to your computer, TomTom HOME will check to see if there are any updates available for all your installed services. You can stop TomTom HOME from automatically checking for updates for your device by clearing the preference Check for Updates... in the TomTom HOME preferences.

Alternatively you can manually check for updates. See Update your TomTom device.

Note: It is important that you connect your device to your computer frequently, so that the services you've bought can be updated.

How to get accessories

To buy accessories for your TomTom navigation device, click Find accessories for my device in the main menu in HOME.