Apple Silicon (M1) Desktop Sync Compatibility

I can't believe this hasn't been a priority for Dropbox.

The M1 pro laptops are a game changer and Dropbox will be left behind.

I sure hope it is sorted out before the new desktop iMacs are released or I will be looking to an alternative cloud solution.

My annual renewal is November 22. I’m a longtime customer and power user with a new M1 MAX MacBook Pro arriving in early December. I am going to cancel my annual subscription, move to a monthly subscription and see how serious Dropbox is about us as loyal customers….and research iCloud, Google, Box and any other viable solutions invested in the M1 platform. If I have to leave, it may or may not be a hassle for me to migrate…but I can’t imagine ever coming back. 

Fellow M1 users: my only purpose for Dropbox is for backup, freeing hard disk space and convenient file sharing….is there an obvious alternative for me in this regard that sticks out as a great alternative?  Would this be an easy process for a non-super tech type?  Thanks in advance. 

I laugh that a lazy company has to ask for votes to do its job. After years of using Dropbox, for about 4 months now I'm doing great using icloud and google drive. I recommend it to everyone.

I own a number of Macs for my agency, and we've been using a paid DropBox Business account for years to store shared assets for our team. Our migration to Apple Silicon has already begun, and I can assure those in DropBox management that my account with them will be closed in the very near future if no evidence of native software isn't forthcoming. Thankfully there are alternatives to DropBox.

I work for a large company with over 3000 employees. We have just cancelled Dropbox.

Personally I hope to move to iCloud since it's much less resource intensive. 

First half of 2022 means it could be as long as eight months before the promised software appears. And that’s assuming they can deliver it as promised. Too long for me, I’m jumping ship as soon as I’ve determined the best of several good options. I almost dumped them when they refused to offer a reasonable pricing option of $5 or $6/mo for those of us who don’t need anything remotely close to 2TB of storage (I’ll probably never even approach 100GB), but at the time Dropbox was clearly superior to every competitor. No more.

Like many others here, I've been using Dropbox since it was invite-only and they used to have annual scavenger hunts to get extra space (those were fun). However, things like this and the current pricing (I have no need for 2TB; give other price options and tiers for your everyday users) have made me move over to another solution on my new MacBook Pro. I've also turned off renewal. Perhaps - and that's a big maybe - I'll give it a go again if the Apple Silicon version comes out in the near future...

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Shame on you Dropbox. Another bad move...

Yeah, I'm sorry but H1 is not good enough. We need this NOW. Everybody in the company that can use a keyboard should be on this. It's incredibly bad and the impression the damage control left is not a good one.