Go 6200 Zooming Out on arrival at destination

rayberni

I use my TomTom Go 6200 everyday and its driving me so nuts I am thinking seriously about ditching it. When I arrive at an address or very close to it, the 6200 goes into aerial view automatically which is absolutely useless. I cannot imagine someone designing it do this so must be a flaw. Tried a few setting changes but nothing seems to work. I now have to run Google Maps or Waze in parallel.

YamFazMan

Hi
@rayberni
Welcome to the site....
Sorry, but the 'Automatic Route Clearance' is by design
And there is not an option to turn off
As far as I recall....
Automatic Route Clearance Rules
(1)… When you arrive to the destination, the route will be cleared (Inside a 50 m radius)
(2)… When the last known location is less than 400 meters from your destination AND it has been more than 120 minutes since the user suspended/turn off the device, the route will be cleared automatically on the device.
(3)… When the user suspends the device for more than a week, the route will be cleared automatically on the device.
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Maybe useful... In the Setting menu
You can turn off the automatic Map, switching to the North-up overview map

With "Automatic Map Switching" turned off, when you arrive at your destination, the device will continue using your chosen navigation screen to show your present location...


Note... you may need to tap the Plus Icon button (Situated Under the 'Direction of Travel' Icon) a couple of times to zoom in for the map detail
(At least it stops the Map switching to the North-up overview map with a zoom level view like the view from International Space Station)
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Setting-up... From the main screen
Tap the 4Dot (.... Menu) --> Setting --> Appearance....
Turn off Automatic Map view switching
Tap Blue arrow head Icon ( > ) top right on screen to exit

But unfortunately this has an effect to both ends of the journey.....
If you have turned off Automatic Map view switching
Now whenever you have planned a route, you will have to tap the "Let's Go" banner or the "Direction of travel Icon" the arrowhead above the plus and minus buttons
To switch to your chosen navigation screen
The Map does not switch at either the start or the end of your journey
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There are also three options for the Zoom function.....
(1)..... Zoom into next turn
(2)..... Based on road type....
(I prefer the zoom set to 'Based on road type')
(3)..... None
From the main screen
Tap the 4Dot (.... Menu) --> Setting --> Appearance --> Automatic zoom....
Choose the required option
Tap Blue arrow head Icon ( > ) top right on screen to exit....

Stay Safe... ATB YFM

rayberni

YamFazMan

Thanks for your response, appreciated. So first thought is that it sounds like the software was designed to do this rather than it being an error. Beggars belief that someone would design a nav. program to literally hide your destination when you get close to it. I will try your suggestion later today and see how it works out. I've used Waze and Google and neither of these hide your destination it is just weird. I got a nav device from work which I use daily but the graphics on the TomTom is much better. All the other ones I use zoom in when you get to your destination so you can see where you are.

Ray