The Home screen

The Home screen is the first tab of the Storage Studio window — the calm Intelligence view most people use. It tells you how your Mac is doing, lets you ask a question, runs Smart Care with one button, charts your storage over time, and has cards that open every main feature.

The window around it

Across the top of the window:

• Tabs: Home, Apps, Junk Yard (when it's switched on) and Delta Drive. Press ⌘1 to ⌘4 to jump between them.
• The book icon opens the Learning Center. It shows a dot when there's something new.
• More opens the full tools menu — every window, plus Settings…, Contact Support… and Switch to Advanced View.
• The Finder button opens the Storage Studio location in Finder.

Press Escape to close the window. Prefer the menu-bar popover? See Interface settings.

From top to bottom

%% caption: The sections of the Home screen, from top to bottom
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  A[Headline, notification bell and Hot Keys] --> B[Ask box for Tuhi]
  B --> C[Banners, only when something needs you]
  C --> D[Tuhi card: live status and quick stats]
  D --> E[Run Tuhi button]
  E --> F[Your storage over time]
  F --> G[Card strip]

Headline. A coloured dot and a sentence such as Your Mac is in good shape. On the right are the notification bell (see notifications) and a Hot Keys chip that lists your keyboard shortcuts. When your disk is nearly full, a warning triangle opens Emergency Space.

Ask box. Type a question in plain words — "Ask Storage Studio anything…". Tuhi answers on your Mac and can open the right screen for you. While you're chatting, the conversation takes the place of the rest of the page; see Asking Tuhi a question.

Banners. These appear only when they matter: Connect an external drive to do more when no drive is set up, Automatic actions are paused with a Resume button, or a warning when space is critical.

The Tuhi card. A headline such as Let's tidy up your Mac, and a live status line that says what's happening right now — the current step of a run, a background job that needs a look, or Your Mac is in good shape — nothing running right now. Click the line to open the activity log. Four small tiles show Last clean-up, Next clean-up (click it to change the schedule in Quiet Hours), Rule Optimizer and Auto rules (see Auto Rules).

Run Tuhi - Your AI Assistant. The big round button runs Smart Care in place: it clears caches, reclaims space held by old local backups, keeps cloud files online-only and checks on moved apps. Progress shows in the status line; while it runs, the button reads Working… tap to view. The spinning badge on its rim means it's powered by Apple Intelligence, when your Mac has it.

Your storage over time. Small charts for Your Mac and, when you have one, External drive. Drag across a chart to zoom. A new point is added every hour. More in Storage charts and history.

Card strip. Scroll sideways with the arrows. The cards open Data Parking, Data Transfers, Data Backup (Versioned), My Drive or Delta Drive, What's Using Space, Manage Apps, Duplicates and Storage Profile.

See also: The menu bar icon and popover, Where to start, Keyboard shortcuts.