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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.
This is really disappointing news to read popping up in my tech newsfeed. Was just planning a migration to Dropbox because GDrive is really bad at handeling big files with it cache system. Really sad to see such inactivity on this topic for professionals that rely on these services to adapt to ever changing OS and hardware systems. Otherwise, just quit..
Please M1 support guys 😕
This is ridiculous.
Not supporting 1 of the 2 major operating systems used in business is a poor choice. This is not a minor feature request that will go away, but a large change in architecture that is permanent. This is not a small number of users that you are choosing to ignore, but a large customer base, many of whom who are paying for your service. (Also, many of whom have demonstrated that they are willing to spend more than their Windows counterparts). Poor choices like this and the reluctance to switch from 32 to 64 bit architecture in the past are reasons why I have never become a paying customer. Your attitude towards your customer base is poor, which makes any future using your service unreliable and therefore it can only ever be a backup of minor things for me.
Disappointing. If this doesn’t get resolved soon - will have a to find a new cloud platform with native arm support
I pay for 2TB of Cloud Storage annually, and it doesn't support my computer. Honestly DropBox, you can consider me gone later this year (and probably a few hundred others), if you don't add M1 support soon.
I’m a long term Dropbox user but like others above, as a professional who relies on cloud storage for work and who needs to maximise the performance of their machine, I shouldn’t have to quit the Dropbox app to regain system performance. Would prefer to stay with Dropbox but will switch to a competitor offering Apple Silicon support if it’s not even announced as being on the development roadmap.
Got my new M1 MacBook and saw this horrible experience
at this point iCloud is good enough to replace Dropbox now
Am getting a new MacBook Pro soon. If you decide not to support it natively, I will stop supporting you. There are other providers of cloud storage, guys…
Is everyone forgetting you cant even keep dropbox running on a ~2014 intel mac? Theyve never cared about this. Even if everyone in this thread (I love you all so far, btw) canceled it wouldnt affect them at all since they have so many corporate clients now, hence all the spam and other nonsense they keep weighing down the app with. I bet so many devs there would love the opportunity to optimize everything and just cant get it approved.
Anyways, make sure to check out the new features launching that you dont need or want and get in the way of everything else. (which are probably great since dropbox has so many amazing people working there.. just.... urg)
