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How to use the TuJu app
Install it, sign in, set a destination, then check the toll, a camera, and the next rest stop before you join the highway. The steps below follow features the operators have actually announced.
Before you open it
TuJu is a highway companion for Peninsular Malaysia, not a promise that every street in the country is in the database. Install it from Google Play or the App Store before the morning you need it. The first launch may need an account, a map download's worth of data, and location permission. Do that in a car park with the engine off.
Mount the phone, or decide that a passenger will hold it. Testing in October 2026 found no Android Auto and no Apple CarPlay. A phone in your hand at a stacked interchange is the failure mode this app's weak prompts make more likely. Charge the battery or plug in. The iPhone listing warns that location can run while the app is closed.
Sign in
On the iPhone build tested by SoyaCincau, the map would not navigate until you signed in with Google, Apple, or email. Use a method you can recover. If the button spins, stop and use the login notes rather than retrying through the start of a toll lane.
Read the permission screen that follows. It is the operator's own description of location, motion, and usage data. The stores add their own data-safety text. Both are summarised on the data page. Accept only what you are willing to share on a drive.
Set the destination
Search for the place, or use voice search if your build has it. The August 2026 Play notes listed voice search among the changes. Android 2.0 also lets you save fixed destinations, which is the right tool for a commute or a hometown exit you use every festive season.
Read the route before you move: distance, estimated arrival, and any toll callout. "Precision navigation" is the phrase the Works Minister used at the November 2025 launch: route, distance, and ETA. Look at whether the line actually follows the highway you intend, including the correct direction at a rest-area U-turn. A straight line across a city, which drivers were posting during the October 2026 surge, is not a route. Abandon it.
Tolls, cameras, stops
Before you join the highway, do three checks. First, the toll figure, so you know whether the tag or the cash is enough. Second, a camera on the stretch you are about to enter, if TuJu has one there. Third, the next R&R you would actually be willing to stop at, including fuel or an EV charger on Android 2.0. Doing this at the house is the whole point of a highway app. Doing it at 110 km/h is how people miss exits.
The product site also lists food and, over time, other facilities. Names and opening hours can be stale. If you need a pharmacy or a prayer room, treat the pin as a hint and confirm on the signboard at the rest area.
While the car is moving
Listen, do not watch. If the voice says only "keep straight" or "merge" as you approach a stack of ramps, that matches what testers found, and it is not enough. Read the gantry. If the gantry and the phone disagree, follow the gantry, take the next legal exit, and replan when you are stopped.
Cameras, MyJalan reports, and the parked-car pin are passenger tasks, or tasks for when you are in a bay. A breakdown in a live lane is a 999 call, then the concessionaire, not a moment to browse CCTV. The safety page is the short version of that rule. If the app freezes entirely, the outage steps are the ones LLM's own statement supports.