Detour behaviour in Scenic / Skipping Waypoints (route recalculation / deviating from the route)

In Scenic, you can customize your detour behavior. In other words, you can customize how Scenic reacts when you deviate from your route. Especially with motorcycle rides, where we typically drop a few waypoints to get away from those straight and boring roads, this is important. With detour behavior settings, you can determine what Scenic should do if you miss a waypoint.

You can find the Detour Behaviour options in Settings > Navigation & Tracking > Detour Behaviour.

What to do when leaving the route?

At the top level there are 4 choices. The descriptions speak for themselves.

(Auto-) skipping waypoints

With Scenic, you can skip a waypoint during a navigation sessions. Being able to skip waypoints is very important. With detour behaviour set to “Guide my back to the first unreached via point”, Scenic will relentlessly guide you from one via point to the next. In other words, it will relentlessly guide you to the first waypoint you did not reach yet. Even if you join the route further ahead, it will still try to send you back to reach that missed via point.

IMPORTANT: This is also true for the route start point. If you include “guidance to route start”, and you don’t reach the route start, it will relentlessly guide you to the route start. Here you can see how to turn off “guidance to route start” (typically you only want to be guided to the route start when the route start is far away, or when you are sure you will pass the route start. If the route start if very close to your current location you may not reach it because it’s “behind” you when you leave).

Reasons you’d want to skip a waypoint are various. Here are some examples:

– You want to cut the route short
– You decided to deliberately take a different road
– You placed a waypoint on a road that’s temporarily closed
– You accidentally placed a waypoint too far awar from a know road (can happen when placing waypoints with the map zoomed out too far).

As you see, there is also an option to automatically skip the next unreached waypoint. The descriptions speek for themselves again. Caution is advised with this setting, though, as this can unintentionally skip via points due to GPS- and map inaccuracies. Also a quick unplanned deviation from your route (like a gas station in a town) can cause this unwanted behaviour. Typically, it’s recommended to keep auto-skip next via disabled,.

How to manually skip a waypoint

There are a few ways. On iPhone, you can tap this button:

If you prefer not to have this button directly on the map screen, you can hide it through Settings > Navigation & Tracking. That’s OK, because a similar button is also available through the navigation menu:

On CarPlay, you tap the “skip waypoint”button on the map and then confirm in the alert that appears:

Guide back to route

This feature only is selectable when detour behaviour is set to “don’t recalculate”. With this setting, if you deviate from the route, the turn by turn instruction will stop and a message will appear “go to route” or “not of route”. Once you join the route again, the navigation will restart. If you get lost and can’t find your own way to the route, you can use the button that appears on the map to guide you to the nearest waypoint.