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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.
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It’s embarrassing that they haven’t added it yet or at the very least outlined a roadmap.
Dropbox, oh my darlings at Dropbox. How is this a question? Let me rephrase that: this is not a question! You are the leading provider of pro + consumer cloud-computing storage services – *of course* you have to support the latest hardware from Apple – and every other major computer manufacturer. If you don't, I'll have to reconsider my choice to (for now) not switch to iCloud Drive. (That's too many negatives in one sentence, but you know what I mean.)
I'm a business customer (Teams plan), and I will cancel my subscription if there is no native M1 client when I buy my next macbook early next year.
To all the newbs to the thread, this topic has been a point of contention for a long time so put your money where your mouth is. Yes, it's a pain, but I cancelled my decade-long account last week, moved all my files to iCloud and will not be renewing even if they come through with M1 compatible versions.
While it's great that they are getting a lot of traffic on this today and maybe will pay a little attention, it doesn't change the overall corporate attitude that has been embarrassing for a year+
Dropbox folks - this is not a feature request this is making sure Dropbox works properly and most efficiently with Apples new line of laptops.
how could this not be a priority for you.
please respond.
thanksI've been a customer for over 13 years, I've patiently waited for native M1 with more appropriate battery and memory utilization for a background application... that patience is running out. At this point I'm moving to sync or onedrive as both have native M1 support.
User since 2009.
Thanks for finally giving me the last push to "drop" Dropbox after all these years. Sayonara!
I just got notified that Dropbox (via Emma ) has changed the status to of this request to "In Review".
So after more than a year, all it took was a ton of up votes in a 24 hour period to get them to notice this...or their PR team saw the web posting on this and is forcing the sleeping community management and development teams to take notice. SMH.
As a 10-year Dropbox subscriber, I support this request. Bring Dropbox to M1 Macs natively, please.
Yes - Native support is a must. I will start my shopping for other providers if native support isn't provided within a reasonable timeframe.
