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Swe T.
New member | Level 1
10 years ago
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How to Clear or Remove the Recent file list in mobile apps

I want to clear all the Recent file list, there has no clear function please advise how to clear the list. Thanks & regards Swe Tin
Mobile
Third Party Integrations
  • Sam DBX's avatar
    Sam DBX
    2 years ago
    Hi everybody,
     
    We’d like to provide an update on this topic:
     
    Keep in mind that you can completely hide the Recents section with the new modular home layout on mobile:
     
    1. Open the Dropbox mobile app.
    2. Tap the customize icon (artist palette) 🎨
    3. To add or remove a default section, tap the toggle next to Recents, Starred, Camera Uploads, 4. Viewed links, Shared, or Offline.
    5. Tap Save to save your changes.
     
    You can find more info in here.
     
    Also, based on your comments, our team is working on improving the recents list update (when an item is deleted remotely). Thank you for sharing your feedback on this.
     
    We'll keep you in the loop for future features related to this.
    Sam 
Rich's avatar
Rich
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10 years ago

this forum is a dropbox.com registered domain (see whois) and the only place where customers of dropbox can complain with the idle hope that someone of dropbox reads it.

I never stated that Dropbox does not own the site. It is their site and they maintain these forums. That being said, the majority of the people providing assistance here are other users like yourself. A Dropboxer does reply on occasion (as you've seen), but the only official method of receiving a response from Dropbox is by opening a ticket with Support.

Tickets are never read anyway.

All tickets are answered. It is the forum posts that will not always be seen by a member of Dropbox Support.

So yes this is a good place to request an ETA

As stated... Dropbox does not release information about planned features and their time frames.

It now requires 8 steps to get to a file on dropbox android:

Your list of steps has been (once again) removed from your post. Please refer to my previous response on this matter. Thank you.

 

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