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Marcocap
Helpful | Level 6
8 years ago
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Dropbox became very slow and freezes after iOS 12 update

After the update to iOS 12 on my iPhone 7 Dropbox started to behave really bad. It freezes very often, minutes of charging time to just show me a portion of the files in the folder I’m working on. Alr...
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  • DavidZ's avatar
    DavidZ
    8 years ago

    Quick update on this: it appears that this primarily affects users with many (at least 25 or so) starred files. We have identified the cause and fixed the issue.

    The fix will be in Dropbox for iOS v120, going out early next week (around Nov 6).

    Thank you very much to those of you who wrote in and contributed by giving detailed descriptions of the issue, and extra thanks to those who sent in videos and crash logs.

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aarondeee
Helpful | Level 5
8 years ago

I'm having the same problem. I'm using DB ver 116.2. iOS ver 12.0.1 on an iphone 8 plus. I tried clearing the cache per Walter's suggestion, but the always freezes up after pushing that button.

  • aarondeee's avatar
    aarondeee
    Helpful | Level 5
    8 years ago

    I deleted and reinstalled the app and it seems to be working better for the time being.

    • Walter's avatar
      Walter
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      8 years ago

      Glad to hear that aarondeee  - please keep us posted on this matter.

      Should you need anything else in the meantime, please let me know and have a lovely weekend!

      • aarondeee's avatar
        aarondeee
        Helpful | Level 5
        8 years ago

        It was just temporary relief. Problem persists.

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