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Russ5
Helpful | Level 6
4 years ago
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Android app, opening videos doesn't work correctly

I can't watch videos on- or off-line in the Dropbox app for Android. I think this bug/series of bugs started when I updated to Android 12 in October/November of last year. I've just been hoping the b...
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    Russ5
    3 years ago
    Dropbox app version 316.2.2 fixed this issue for me on Android 13, Pixel 5.
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Andrusz
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago
Hello Russ, I am experiencing the exact same issue as yourself. Did they resolve the issue or not? It's quite frustrating considering you can't watch anything through Dropbox itself without the thumbnail of another video obscuring the video.
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Planetmetal
New member | Level 2
3 years ago
Same exact issues. I click a video and a thumbnail from another video in the same folder just hides the actual video so I can't see any of the video at all. I'm also running it on the newest android.

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