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How to Avoid Tolls Using Google Maps On iPhone & Android

By: Sam Patwegar | February 14, 2025

For quite some reason, most Countries around the World never seem to have the funds to build Infrastructure and services required for people to live, work and contribute to the economy.

Hence, they borrow money to build roads and end up charging its own citizens to pay back the principal and accrued interest on the borrowed money.

In most Countries, you can deal with this situation by enabling the “Avoid Tolls” feature in Google Maps, which ensures that you are always using Toll Free Roads and avoiding Roads that collect the Tolls.

Note: It is not always possible to Avoid Toll Roads and in certain cases using a Toll Road might be the quickest way to reach a destination.

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Avoid Tolls Using Google Maps

Depending on your requirements, you can set the Google Maps on your iPhone or Android phone to avoid Tolls using any of the following methods.

1. Avoid Tolls on All Routes in Google Maps

This method ensures that Google Maps always uses Toll Free Roads, while providing you with directions.

1. Open Google Maps > tap on your Account icon and select Settings in the drop-down menu.

Open Google Maps Settings

2. On the Settings screen, tap on the Navigation tab located under “Getting Around” section.

Navigation Settings Tab in Google Maps

3. On the next screen, scroll down to “Route Options” section and enable Avoid Tolls option.

Avoid Tolls Option in Google Map Settings

After this, Google Maps will automatically try to use Free Routes, whenever you try to find directions using Google Maps on your smartphone.

2. Avoid Tolls on Specific Routes Using Google Maps

Follow the steps below to make Google Maps avoid Toll Roads, while providing you with Turn-by-Turn directions on a specific route.

1. Open Google Maps app on your iPhone or Android Phone > Type Name or Address of the place that you want to go to.

Search Place in Google Maps

2. Tap on Directions in bottom menu.

Directions Tab in Google Maps

3. On the next screen, tap on 3-dots icon located next to the Location entry.

3-dots Menu Icon in Google Maps

4. On the pop-up, tap on Route Options.

Route Options Tab in Google Maps

5. On Route Options screen, move the toggle next to Avoid Tolls to ON position.

Avoid Tolls for Specific Route in Google Maps

Note: You can enable Remember Settings option, if you want Google to remember the settings for this particular route.

After this. you can start heading towards your destination and Google Maps will make sure that you are avoiding the roads where you may be required to Pay Tolls.

Sam Patwegar

Brings practical experience in technical writing from an engineering background to produce fluff-free, easy-to-follow and well tested troubleshooting guides and informative tech-related articles on this website.

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