--- title: "The Home screen" url: https://storagestudio.us/wiki/the-home-screen category: "Getting started" tags: ["getting started", "home", "smart care", "tuhi"] summary: "The Home screen is the first tab of the Storage Studio window. It shows how your Mac is doing, lets you ask Tuhi a question, runs Smart Care with one button, charts your storage over time and has a row of cards that open every main feature." updated: 2026-10-01T05:35:27.000Z --- # The Home screen The Home screen is the first tab of the Storage Studio window. It shows how your Mac is doing, lets you ask Tuhi a question, runs Smart Care with one button, charts your storage over time and has a row of cards that open every main feature. 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](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/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](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/learning-center-and-notifications). 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](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/the-finder-button). Press Escape to close the window. Prefer the menu-bar popover? See [Interface settings](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/interface-settings). ## From top to bottom ```mermaid %% caption: The sections of the Home screen, from top to bottom flowchart TD 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] ``` *Flowchart — The sections of the Home screen, from top to bottom. Outline:* - Headline, notification bell and Hot Keys - leads to Ask box for Tuhi - Ask box for Tuhi - leads to Banners, only when something needs you - Banners, only when something needs you - leads to Tuhi card: live status and quick stats - Tuhi card: live status and quick stats - leads to Run Tuhi button - Run Tuhi button - leads to Your storage over time - Your storage over time - leads to 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](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/learning-center-and-notifications)) and a **Hot Keys** chip that lists your keyboard shortcuts. When your disk is nearly full, a warning triangle opens [Emergency Space](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/emergency-space). **Ask box.** Type a question in plain words — *"Ask Storage Studio anything…"*. [Tuhi](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/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](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/asking-tuhi). **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](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/quiet-hours)), **Rule Optimizer** and **Auto rules** (see [Auto Rules](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/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](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/storage-charts). **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](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/the-menu-bar-icon-and-popover), [Where to start](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/where-to-start), [Keyboard shortcuts](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/keyboard-shortcuts). ## What links here - [Asking Tuhi a question](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/asking-tuhi) - [Finding and removing duplicates](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/duplicates) - [Interface settings](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/interface-settings) - [Junk Yard shortcuts](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/junk-yard-shortcuts) - [Keyboard shortcuts](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/keyboard-shortcuts) - [Meet Tuhi, your storage assistant](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/tuhi) - [The Finder button in the main window](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/the-finder-button) - [The Learning Center and notifications](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/learning-center-and-notifications) - [The menu bar icon and popover](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/the-menu-bar-icon-and-popover) - [What Storage Studio does](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/what-storage-studio-does) - [Your first launch, step by step](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/your-first-launch)