TomTom for iPhone - Warning re iOS4 Update

Darren · Last edited by Darren on Thu Feb 10, 2011 4:56 pm; edited 3 times in total

Why is the $64,000 question but those avid iPhone owners who eagerly downloaded and updated to iOS4 yesterday will have quickly discovered that TomToms app is not iOS4 ready. So no multitasking but worse still, it doesn't work at all under iOS4.

Quite why TomTom have been so tardy in getting an update to fix compatibility we can only speculate about. iOS4 has been seeded to developers through various betas for some months now, precisely to avoid issues such as this.

Whereas many other navigation apps are working fine under iOS4, albeit without the much vaunted multitasking features, to have an app that does not function and crashes when a route is calculated is very poor indeed.

"will be submitted to Apple for review after the 21 June release of iOS 4."
So for those of you who need access to TomTom on your iPhone the advise id to hold off updating if you haven't done so already. For those of you that have updated already, TomTom have promised an update with full iOS4 support "will be submitted to Apple for review after the 21 June release of iOS 4."
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Darren Griffin

Seamaster · Frequent Visitor Joined: Jun 05, 2006 Posts: 331

And Tomtom have had developer access to iOS4 builds for how long . . ?

MaFt · Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 11:40 am Post subject:

Sportiva · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 29, 2008 Posts: 4

This is beyond frustrating. I have no idea why they haven't introduced a bug fix prior to iOS4 release. iOS4 GM (the final iOS4 version) was out for devs three weeks before the actual launch so they should have had all the time in the world to fix the crash bug. Only thing they've done so far is give interviews about how they will support multitasking. Honestly, fix the crashing first and then start thinking about multitasking. At the moment TomTom on iPhone iOS4 is useless software.

Sportiva · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 29, 2008 Posts: 4

This was posted on TomTom website:

Sean16v · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 15, 2006 Posts: 47

Mine still works tho you have to restart it everytime you change something so at least for now it will get in from A to B until an update comes.

Darren · Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 6:09 pm Post subject:

rob801 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 14, 2009 Posts: 1

The iOS4 update for the TomTom app has just been released, I'm downloading it now. In the description it said it has support for background instructions, adding route departure dates and times to the calendar, emailing route descriptions, "eco routes" and an updated map.

edit: It also lets you change the car icon on the map now.

Darren · Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 6:50 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the heads-up. It would seem that they have pulled a few strings and got this out soonest, good news!

The iTunes Link for TomTom's apps is here.
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Sean16v · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 15, 2006 Posts: 47

Europe update for OS4 is ready for down Very Happy

SHC · Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:10 pm Post subject:

I dont know if its just me but iTunes said I had an update but the download is still 1.3. And it's now told me I have another update so it's downloading 1.4 again. Grr

Darren · Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:12 pm Post subject:

SHC · Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:18 pm Post subject:

Third time lucky.
By the way, does this and the CamerAlert update allow both to be used together? That would be nice.

Sean16v · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 15, 2006 Posts: 47

Does anyone no how to get traffic subscription back that I have paid for.

Thanks Sean

mikealder · Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 8:34 pm Post subject:

Just re-enter the same username and password you used to use prior to the update on the device with the app running - Mike

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