Can I choose which cards appear on the home screen?

Yes. Tap the pencil at the top left to enter Edit Dashboard, then drag to reorder, tap the red minus to remove a card, Add to bring one back, Reset for the defaults and Done to finish. Cards for services your NAS does not run are never offered.

The Home Screen - Syno Manager Guide

Q: Do collapsed cards stay collapsed?

Yes. Collapse state is remembered per view and survives closing the app. A collapsed row still carries a status glyph with its own shape - a tick, a triangle, a cross, a dash for unknown, an hourglass while loading - so it reads correctly to anyone who cannot separate red from green.

On this page

The health header
The quick-stats row
Every card
Collapsing
Edit Dashboard
Refreshing

What it weighs up

Drive health - SMART status on every drive.
Volume usage - amber past 80% full, red past 90%.
System temperature - amber past 50°C, red past 60°C.
Drive temperature - amber past 45°C, red past 55°C.
UPS charge, when a UPS is attached.
Fan status and load average relative to the core count.

What it will not do

It will not show a healthy tick over a reading it could not take. If the app cannot reach the NAS, or a value came back missing, the header says that - loading, or unreachable - rather than quietly treating an absent number as a good one.

It folds too. The header is the tallest thing on the screen and it collapses like everything else. Folded, it still reports the state it is actually in: the health it read, that it is still loading, or that it cannot reach the NAS.

Under the header

The quick-stats row

Five readings that answer "is it fine?" without scrolling.

Reading	What it tells you
Temp	System temperature, in °C or °F depending on your preference. Colours shift amber then red as it climbs.
Cooling	The fan speed mode the NAS is actually in - Full Speed, Cool or Quiet. Change it from System.
Sessions	How many connections DSM currently holds. Tap through to Active Connections to see who they are.
Uptime	How long since the NAS last booted.
Time	The NAS's own clock and the time source it syncs against. A NAS whose clock has drifted breaks two-factor codes and makes log timestamps lie.

The grid

Every card you can put on it

Each card is a summary with a way into the full screen. Only cards your NAS supports are offered - the app asks DSM what it can do and never shows a card for a package that is not installed. Tap a card's title to open the screen it summarises.

Card	What it shows	Opens
System	CPU and RAM gauges with the user share broken out.	System Health
Storage	Each volume with RAID type, a usage bar, used and free.	Volumes & Pools
Network	Live download and upload on the primary interface, with a sparkline.	Network
Resource Monitor	Rolling CPU, memory and disk I/O charts.	Resources
Disk Health	SMART state and temperature per drive.	Disk Health
Firmware	DSM version and whether an update is waiting.	System Health
Packages	How many DSM packages are installed and running.	Package Center
Docker	Running versus total containers, and the first few by name with uptime.	Docker
Docker Projects	Compose stacks and how many are up.	Projects
Virtual Machines	Virtual machines and their power state.	Virtual Machines
Surveillance	How many cameras are online out of the total.	Cameras
Photos	Library size and album count.	Photos
Drive	Synology Drive and team folders.	Drive
Backup	Hyper Backup tasks with size and next run.	Backup
Active Backup	Devices and tasks under Active Backup for Business.	Active Backup
Download Station	Active downloads with speed and progress.	Download Station
Task Scheduler	Enabled versus disabled tasks and the next few to run.	Tasks
UPS Status	Model, charge, estimated runtime and whether it is online.	Power
DDNS & External IP	Your public address and the hostname the NAS publishes, with a refresh.	DDNS
Log Center	The most recent system log entries, read once with a refresh button.	Logs
Shared Folders	Share names, their volume and whether they carry ACLs.	Shared Folders
Active Connections	Who is signed in, from where, over which protocol.	Connections
Services	Running versus stopped DSM services.	Services
Users	DSM accounts and their state.	Users
File Browser	A way into File Station.	File Station
USB Devices / External Storage	Attached USB and eSATA devices, with safe eject.	External
VPN	VPN client profiles configured on the NAS.	VPN
Notifications	How DSM is set to notify you - push, email, SMS.	Notification settings
Note Station / Office / Contacts	Notebooks, documents and address books.	Files

Dashboard cards for Docker and Surveillance Station, each summarising and linking to its screen

Two cards in the grid: each summarises, then opens the full screen.

A card that goes nowhere tells you why. If you hide a sub-view and then tap the card that opens it, the app says it is hidden and offers to take you to Customize - rather than silently landing you on some other screen, which is what a broken link feels like.

Fold what you do not read

Collapsing, and what survives it

Tap the chevron on any card to fold it. The choice is remembered per view and survives closing the app, so the dashboard opens the way you left it rather than resetting every launch.

A collapsed card still reports. The row keeps a status glyph, and each glyph has its own shape - a tick for healthy, a triangle for warning, a cross for a problem, a dash for unknown, an hourglass while it loads. It reads the same to anyone who cannot separate red from green, and every glyph names itself to a screen reader.
Long titles scroll rather than being cut. A title too wide for the collapsed row moves rather than being clipped mid-word.
The header folds too, and keeps reporting its real state when it does.

Edit Dashboard

Reorder, remove, reset

Tap the pencil at the top left of the home screen. The toolbar appears and every card grows a drag handle and a red minus.

Drag a card by its handle to move it.
Tap the red minus to take a card off the dashboard. It is not deleted, only hidden.
Add opens the list of cards you have removed, so you can put one back.
Reset restores the default set and order.
Done leaves edit mode. The layout is saved as you go.

Cards keep working while you edit. They render live data in edit mode rather than turning into grey boxes, so you can see what you are moving. A card that is still fetching when you enter edit mode may look empty for a moment - that is the fetch, not the card.

Per NAS, not per app. Each NAS you add keeps its own layout, so a media server and a backup target do not have to look the same.

Edit Dashboard mode with the toolbar, drag handles and remove buttons

Keeping current

How often it refreshes

Live readings poll on a timer you set in Settings › Polling Interval: system values on the short interval, storage on a longer one, because volume usage does not change every five seconds and asking costs battery.

Pull down to refresh everything at once, whatever the interval is set to.
Logs do not poll. The Log Center card reads once and has a refresh button, rather than re-reading on a timer whether or not you are looking at it.
Polling stops in the background. The app is not draining your battery while it is not on screen.

Common questions

Home screen FAQ

What does the health badge actually mean?

It is a summary of everything the app can read: drive SMART status, volume usage, system temperature, UPS charge, fan status and load average. Tap it and it tells you which of those is responsible rather than just saying Warning. A badge that cannot read something says so instead of showing a healthy tick over a failed read.

Can I choose which cards appear?

Yes - tap the pencil to enter Edit Dashboard, then drag to reorder, tap the red minus to remove, Add to bring one back, Reset for defaults, Done to finish. Cards for services your NAS does not run are never offered.

Do collapsed cards stay collapsed?

Yes, per view, and it survives closing the app. A collapsed row still carries a status glyph with its own shape, so it reads correctly without relying on colour.

Why is a card I want missing?

Either it is switched off in Edit Dashboard, or your NAS does not run the service behind it. Every card the NAS supports is on by default, so a missing one you never touched means the package is not installed.

Can the home screen differ per NAS?

Yes. Layout, order and collapse state are stored per NAS, so each device opens the way you arranged it.

The whole NAS, one screen down

A badge that says why