A mediocre but necessary app for TomTom users

The latest update has made a so-so app even worse. It now makes you log in with your email account and password every time you use the TomTom. I cannot think of a single iPhone app that is incapable of retaining login information (unless you specifically ask it not to) other than MyDrive.

This app serves two purposes, the first is to provide traffic information (at times incorrect) to the TomTom and the second, based on what TomTom does in Europe, is to track you, and if you are being tracked, to enable features that you have paid for and installed on your TomTom to work. (Specifically the traffic cameras feature - the camera data files reside in the TomTom, the TomTom gets date/time info from the GPS satellites so it should be able to track your subscription without the app. The only thing the app really adds is to allow you to notify TomTom of a new camera.)

The traffic information is generally not bad during rush hour in DC metro area, although often not timely. (It will inform you that you are stuck in traffic after you are stuck in traffic. During off hours there generally is no traffic information.) Routing, especially alternate routes, can be an issue but I blame the TomTom for that.

Nothing else on the app is useful to me. The map on the app will never displace Google Maps if I need to look something up on my iPhone. The app keeps asking to download my iPhone contacts; given the limits in organizing the 20 routes/contacts on my TomTom, adding 1000 new contacts sounds like a nightmare to me.

Taco da Hutt about TomTom MyDrive™