How to Clear or Remove the Recent file list in mobile apps

Oh wow. I seriously can not believe the stupidity of this. When I open Dropbox (on my new phone - wasn't happening on my previous one), as a DEFAULT my recent files list opens - and I most certainly DO NOT WANT this list of files to be viewable.

There's no way to clear the list.

There's no way to NOT make Recents the default view that opens.

There's NO WAY I'm continuing to use dropbox on my phone, and there's NO WAY I'm renewing my subscription if this idiotic flaw isn't fixed before my renewal is due.

Wow. I can't believe this issue has been around for six months without it being fixed. Just... wow.

This post is more than 6 month old. Any progress? Dropbox people???

Should be a simple fix if one is interested to keep their customers

The best (only) way I've found to "clear" a recent entry is to rename the folder in which the file you accessed is housed. I guess the renaming process breaks the audit trail and the recently accessed file is this cleared from the Recent list. 

Got the same problem.

It not only shows the recently added or modified files.

BUT it also shows the recently watched files. And this is something I really don't want.

In short I don't even want the recently list at all.....

Adding a feature without an option to disable it - that is so stupid (or simply Dropbox is forced by NSA to send them some logs from their users, so they came up with this crap :))

I have the same reservation about opening my dropbox either in front of people or at work, its no different than going on your web browser and the first thing you see is your recent history. I strongly dislike this feature. I would not only like to delete my recently viewed files but id like to have the choice of turning the feature off entirely. If this update doesnt roll out soon i may start using a different application for the time being, and end up just sticking with it indefinitely for convenience 

Obviously, many users dislike this feature. Why is this taking so long? I'm moving to Google Drive.

Give me a way to change the default folder. Dropbox probably has some self serving integrated future reason for defaulting to "recents", but this creates unnecessary hassle for users. It's also a personal privacy nightmare, especially for business, and even more so for long time users who are in the habit of opening dropbox in front of others/clients. Not a very well thought out mandatory, unnecessary change. Give users control!

My Dropbox renewal is coming up and it looks like my business is going to sync.com, who aren't suffering from feature creep.

For some reason this 'recent' thing has only just surfaced on my mobile, tablets or PC. As Alan L said some time ago in another thread this is a serious security problem for Dropbox clients.

My first experience of it was leaving my tablet open on my desk after launching Dropbox when some photographs became visible which were for a project a visitor would have been very interested in. Thankfully I saw it in time but had to shut the tablet with rather a rush.

Its only a couple of weeks since I renewed my subscription so I'm not a happy bunny and will be looking at places like sync,com and Google Drive for safer and more secure option for my file storage.

Its difficult to understand why Dropbox are ignoring the requests to give users an option with recents. I would have thought it was an easy thing to produce/