Managing and Browsing Photos in For You Tab

Click on the For You tab on the homepage to browse all the photos that Synology Moments choose for you. This tab contains two sections, Moments Select and Similar Photos, where you can choose to apply AI calculated filters to your photos and decide whether to keep or delete similar photos in Synology Moments. However, Moments Select is only available on certain models; find out which models support this feature in our FAQ article. The performance of your Synology NAS may be affected during the analysis and indexing of the photos.

Enabling/Disabling the For You tab

To enable For You function for the first time:

Click Let's start in the For You tab to allow Synology Moments to analyze and show you the Moments Select section and Similar Photos section.

Note:

Due to the AI computing and indexing process, it may take some time to show the result of Moments Select and Similar Photos.

To enable/disable For You tab later:

Click on the Account icon on the bottom left.
Go to Settings > Albums and select or cancel For You.

Moments Select

Moments AI picks out 24 of your best photos and display them with suggested effects in this section. Every Saturday, the system may update up to four photos in Moments Select if you have added new photos to Synology Moments within the week.

To view photos:

You will see the AI selected photos in this section, which are the automatically edited with Auto Color, and you can choose to save the effects or not.
Click Expand() below to browse the whole selection of photos.

To save photo changes:

You can save the edits on your photos by doing either of the following:

Click Save effects on the bottom right corner of the photo thumbnail.
Select multiple photos and click Save effects on the upper right corner to edit them.
Click the photo to view it in full screen and click Save effects.

Note:

After saving the effects on your Live Photos, the Live Photos will be saved as still photos. To resume them into Live Photos, disable Auto Color in edit mode.

To remove a photo from Moments Select:

You can choose to remove a photo from the Moments Select section by doing either of the following:

Select one or more photos and click Remove recommendation on the upper right corner.
Click the photo to view it in full screen and click Remove recommendation.

Note:

Clicking Remove recommendation will only remove the photo from Moments Select. The photo will not be deleted from Synology Moments.

Similar Photos

Synology Moments gathers similar photos and group them automatically in the Similar Photos section. Each thumbnail includes a group of similar photos. You can see how many similar photos are in the group from the number on the bottom left of the thumbnails.

To view photos:

Click the photo to see all the photos in the same group:
- You can view all the similar photos on the same page and view each photo’s details on the left section by clicking on them.

To manage similar/duplicate photos:

There are two ways to manage similar/duplicate photos. You can choose to keep all photos in a group by selecting them and click Remove recommendation on the For You page or:

Click on a thumbnail to view the photos in a same group.
Hover to the top left corner of each thumbnail to reveal a checkbox. Select the photos you want to manage.
Click to delete the unwanted photos.

Note:

Clicking will not permanently remove the photos from your Synology Moments. You can find the deleted images in Recycle Bin of Synology Drive Server.

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