Auto Rules are clean-up and move rules Storage Studio builds to fit your Mac, based on the apps and caches you actually have — so a newly installed app is kept tidy without you editing a list. Open them from the Auto rules tile on the Home screen. They come in three groups: - Applied automatically — the safest, fully regenerable caches your apps rebuild on their own. - Suggested — needs your approval — anything less obvious, tagged Move or Delete, with why it's safe and roughly how much it would free. - Dismissed — reclaim anytime — anything you dismissed, with Restore to bring it back. Your own hand-written rules are kept separate and never changed. Guide: Auto Rules.

What are Auto Rules?

Short answer: Auto Rules are rules Storage Studio builds to fit your Mac. The safest regenerable caches are applied automatically; anything less obvious is suggested, tagged Move or Delete, and waits for your approval. Your own rules are never changed.

Auto Rules are clean-up and move rules Storage Studio builds to fit your Mac, based on the apps and caches you actually have — so a newly installed app is kept tidy without you editing a list. Open them from the Auto rules tile on the Home screen.

They come in three groups:

Applied automatically — the safest, fully regenerable caches your apps rebuild on their own.
Suggested — needs your approval — anything less obvious, tagged Move or Delete, with why it's safe and roughly how much it would free.
Dismissed — reclaim anytime — anything you dismissed, with Restore to bring it back.

Your own hand-written rules are kept separate and never changed. Guide: Auto Rules.

Last reviewed October 1, 2026

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