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Tune your Setup experience

You cannot redesign Setup Home in App Builder, but you can tune parts of the Setup experience so it works better for your team. These settings live in Setup itself and apply org-wide or per profile, depending on the option.

By Dipojjal Chakrabarti · Founder & Editor, Salesforce DictionaryLast updated Jun 16, 2026

You cannot redesign Setup Home in App Builder, but you can tune parts of the Setup experience so it works better for your team. These settings live in Setup itself and apply org-wide or per profile, depending on the option.

  1. Open Setup

    Click the gear icon in the top right of Lightning Experience and choose Setup. Setup Home opens, usually in a new browser tab. Confirm you have admin access, because the full menu only appears for users with Setup permissions.

  2. Configure System Overview messages

    In the Quick Find box type System Overview, open the page, and review the usage and limit cards. Use the related System Overview settings to control which messages appear, so your team sees the warnings that matter and not noise.

  3. Tune the Recently Viewed list

    Search Quick Find for the option that controls which fields appear in the Recently Viewed list, then choose the fields that help admins recognize records at a glance. This affects the Recent Items experience across Setup.

  4. Pin Quick Find habits and review recommendations

    Decide on the handful of nodes your team uses daily and standardize searching for them by name. On each visit, scan the recommendation tiles and the recent changes so issues like expiring certificates surface early.

System Overviewremember

A Setup page showing usage against key org limits, such as data and API usage, with messages you can configure for visibility.

Recently Viewed fieldsremember

The setting that controls which fields display in the Recently Viewed list, shaping what the Recent Items area shows in Setup.

Quick Findremember

The keyword search box at the top of the Setup tree; the fastest way to open any node you can name.

Object Managerremember

The second Setup tab where standard and custom objects live, used to reach fields, layouts, and rules for one object.

Gotchas
  • Setup Home layout itself is fixed platform UI; you cannot edit it in the Lightning App Builder the way you edit the user Home page.
  • The tiles, recommendations, and nodes you see depend on your edition, enabled features, and permissions, so another admin's Setup Home can look different.
  • Do not confuse Setup Home with the Lightning Experience Home page that users see; changing one does nothing to the other.

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