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Apple Silicon (M1) Desktop Sync Compatibility
Please can you upgrade the Dropbox app so that it works natively on Apple Silicon Macs (M1) without Rosetta.
Rosetta is not an option as it annihilates the battery.
This may be a duplicate of the below idea however that started for ARM processors in general and you haven't looked at it in 6 years so starting an Apple specific idea in the hope you see it.
There are also lots of comments on this thread to help support the case for demand:
Hi all,
Native Apple silicon support is now fully available. All users with Apple silicon devices will receive the native version of Dropbox automatically. If you would like to update your device manually, you can do so by clicking on the latest Stable Build and downloading the Offline Installer (Apple Silicon) file. For more information, visit the Dropbox Help Center.If you need assistance with anything else, please feel free to create a new thread and our community team will be happy to assist.
We seriously have to vote for native support? How is this not a development priority?
If I had known it wasn't even a priority before my subscription just re-upped, I wouldn't have resubscribed. As it stands, if this isn't ready before my subscription renews again, it will not renew again. To be more clear, if you want any more of my money, get it together and support macOS natively.
Dropbox engineers please devote the time and energy to build a native Apple Silicon (arm) build.
Look at all the Dropbox processes showing kind Intel.I suppose one good thing from this today is the number of votes for this increased by at least 50 since this morning.... Of course we won't hear from Dropbox what the threshold is for them to consider but hopefully we've triggered some internal metric that they'll start to care about this now and commit (as well as communicate) making this native
if I have to register to vote and do so just to get Apple silicon support so be it, but this isn’t the Dropbox I’ve paid for the last 10 years… I hope this gets resolved soon
Oh dear, unfortunately they don’t seem to care now. Cancelled auto renew for my yearly Dropbox subscription; I’ll look elsewhere.
Dropbox needs to work with Apple Silicon M1 Macs natively. The performance of the M1 chip set is far superior to the Intel versions and eventually all of Apple’s products will sport silicon chips. Your company has a compelling reason to adapt Dropbox to run as efficiently as possible for the millions of customers who will be using Apple Silicon hardware. Rosetta Stone was never meant to be a permanent work around.
You know what’s really crazy? They have iOS (iPhone) app that is most certainly native to the ARM architecture since the M1 processing family is based on the A14 which is ARM. It can’t be that hard to get a MacOS ARM app done.
It’s absurd to me that I had to sign up for these forums to back the idea that “Dropbox should work natively on Apple computers.”
Absurd.
Here’s a clearer way to put it: I won’t be installing Dropbox on my new MBP until it’s native. In the meantime, I’m going to start migrating to iCloud Drive. If you can’t support the computer I own before my lazy little migration is done, that’s it: you’ve lost a customer of over a decade.
Goodbye Dropbox! With the new MacBooks and the M1Pro / M1Max processors i will leave you ans switch to OneDrive 👋
I was wondering if I should give Dropbox another chance for a while now, but after seeing this thread and how unprofessional Dropbox's response is, I've decided that I won't ever use this service again and will advise others against it. There are way better options out there.
