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Forum Discussion
Can I limit what is synced to my iPhone? Dropbox is clogging up space on my phone.
I use the Dropbox App on my iPhone. But have had to delete it as it was taking up most of the storage on the phone and most of that was photos (over 1600). But I really need to see documents and onl...
The Dropbox App does not have the functionality to sync files from your Dropbox account to your mobile device. The features that the application has are:
- File uploads
- File downloads
- Option to open files with a specific application (if the application supports that file type)
- Move/Delete/Rename files and manipulate the folder structure of your Dropbox folder.
- Share links
- Share using other applications (if the application supports sharing)
This has the advantages of not requiring unnecessary space on your mobile device or using up large amounts of bandwidth, which are large concerns for mobile application development.
However if you wish there are 3rd party apps that provide this functionality. Dropbox does not play favourites so I cannot provide any specific app names but you should be able to find some with a quick Google Search.
So does this mean that the only files from my dropbox that end up on my mobile are ones I manually download?
