You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
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Ed
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffWhat's new in Dropbox - 2nd Edition
Here you'll find information about the latest features and changes in our Dropbox apps.
Note: This feature will gradually be rolled out to everyone over the next few days.
Note: This feature will gradually be rolled out to everyone over the next few days.
- While I appreciate the desire to just post your update info in one spot, I encourage you not to just put the /whatsnew link into your iOS update description field. At the very least, bulletpoint the improvements and then provide a link for more information. Simply providing a link (which can't be tapped anyway and needs to be typed to be accessed) will most likely have the effect of insuring your iOS users are uninformed about your hard work and disengaged with you as a company.
Case in point, I only came here to tell you this...I won't be typing that URL again unless you give me a good reason to.- I second this sentiment. It's user hostile and lazy! At least bullet point improvements in the app store and then put to learn more go to x website.
- Agreed also. Came here solely to say that it's infuriating when developers can't be bothered to fill out the changelog in app stores.
But as Dropbox gets bigger they care less and less about their customers, like any big company. Shame.
- Totally agree, I don't prefer to update 'blind', so you're forcing to awkwardly navigate here. It will eventually move me to just use iCloud Drive. I won't come all this way next release, so likely won't update, and so starts the process to transition away.
These are some nice updates to the iOS client, but I'm still very frustrated that Dropbox hasn't implemented iOS's edit-in-place functionality. It's very confusing to require me to make a new copy of a file each time I want to edit it. It's basically the same as having an endless stream of conflicted copies, which DB usually does an excellent job of limiting. Please prioritize this for future iOS releases. It's the main thing that iCloud Drive is still beating DB on. I understand that app devs can implement something directly through the DB API, but there are too many apps and only one Dropbox for that to be feasible. I'm a happy DB customer paying for my 1TB, and I think this is a pretty reasonable request. Please, be a good OS citizen and use the native API: UIDocumentPickerModeOpen.
- Strongly support this sentiment. I get that open in place has limitations but it's an essential part of working in iOS. Please, please support this feature.
- I have problém on ios 10! The screen on my iphone 6 plus is only half-used, thus navigation is much difficult. Erroneous update, don't install!
Im just learning thanx
- Very good updates, but in ios still background uploading have issue it paused after some time and i must lunch app to start it again, i think this issue should be fixed on ios10. Thanks
- Bring back Carousell!! Or at least something like it, I need to free up space but it's hard to know what photos have been uploaded as it so often skips large groups of photos.
It was incredibly handy and it needs to come back.I use to use Carousel religiously too. I loved using it pull up pictures & to also find pictures by date & more plus free up my phone space. But guess what? I have a great solution for you. I found a new app that I love even more. It is called EVER. http://www.ever.com/ It does the same as Carousel did but way more. It frees up your space and pulls your pictures from everywhere such as facebook, instragram, dropbox & more. It reminds me of Timehop, Carousel, the updated iPhone photos albums but all together in one app. It even reminds me what happened last year or two years ago & further (depending on how far back your pictures go back) #throwback which is neat like FB or Timehop does. I got rid of my other apps cause this one does it all. It also backs-up all of your photos too for you. This is great just in case anything happens. I cant wait to see what else they come up with.
HOPEFULLY DB reads this & later sees if they can partner up with Ever some way! :)
- Live Photo syncing would be great too. Just upload the corresponding MOV file. That's all we need!
At what point is Dropbox going to fix the issue with file caching on iOS? Are you guys aware of how ridiculous it is that I frequently need to remove and reinstall the app because it's gotten too large and you can't add a simple button to clear the local data?
Still disappointed that you have not resolved the one email / one account issue. As a freelancer who works with several companies I cannot belong to more than one team. This is crazy! How 1980s is it to use an email address as an account identifier?? This makes working with companies almost impossible for those of us who are contractors. Please fix this...
I'd like to also put in a vote for supporting the edit-in-place feature on iOS. As others have noted, not supporting this results in multiple file copies being made across different apps.
I love using Dropbox, and I think it's a natural component for any iOS device. But I would really like to remove the need to periodically go through, double-check to see that each file is safely saved in Dropbox, and then delete it from the other locations in which it appears. It is tedious and time consuming. And, as others have noted, I realize there are apps that support saving back to Dropbox, but I have entire workflows that involve multiple people that are set in apps that do not. Moving to a different app in order to gain this feature isn't a practicable workaround.
Still waiting for Live Photo support....
It seems like the "sort by name" and "sort by date" have disappeared from the iOS folder view and it is extremely difficult to find items now. Please put it back.
