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5 years agoHelpful | Level 6
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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- ps-35 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Hopefully this is well into the development process. Box and Google Drive have now released full M1 support, so Dropbox will be losing my company's business in the near future if they aren't working to update their product.
- mcarpentier5 years agoHelpful | Level 6
I hadn't found this thread when I started up a completely similar thread at https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-ideas/Apple-Silicon-native-support/idi-p/535627. I'm just pasting that URL here so that both threads are linked - anything to convince Dropbox that the community really wants this.
This thread is already linked in my thread.
Cheers --Mike
- papayatalk5 years agoNew member | Level 2
I am leaving dropbox. No Dark mode and no m1 support..
what a lazy company.
- marzbgx5 years agoExplorer | Level 4
This needs to happen, dropbox, what's going on????? Are you for real?
- limitedgravity5 years agoNew member | Level 2
This is a major need.
- calstanford5 years agoHelpful | Level 6
I've cancelled my dropbox months ago due to this customer-ignoring attitude. You put engineers on Dropbox Replay but don't care that it doesn't run on new Macs natively for a year and a half already?
To everyone else: icloud sync works perfectly fine, native, well integrated, no extra memory usage. I can recommend.
- tjanderson5 years agoHelpful | Level 6
It's very sad and frustrating to see Dropbox so out of touch with their customer base. M1 macs are here to stay and intel Macs are on their way out so it seems utterly ridiculous that this isn't already being worked on as part of just keeping up with Mac support.
- matf15 years agoNew member | Level 2
4th biggest laptop manufacturer in the US changes its chipset.
Dropbox: "Needs more votes"
- dbr845 years agoNew member | Level 2
Absurd this isn't done yet.
- simonk835 years agoNew member | Level 2
Yeah I'm jumping ship also if this isn't prioritised soon. The battery hit alone makes it an essential need, but honestly it should have been on their roadmap ages ago. Dropbox isn't the only solution for file storage, there are plenty of options out there.
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