How to Clear or Remove the Recent file list in mobile apps

Hmm.  So two observations: this issue has been discussed for more than a year (here and other threads) and Dropbox has not made any useful changes to avoid the recents privacy violations; on IOS, the app reopens the last index page that was open - if that was "files" that's the page it reopens. But if you add a document does it go back to recents?

Until Dropbox decides what and how to alter the recents index - and for all you folks wanting "options" that is a really big deal since there are no options at present for anything - I would appreciate it if Dropbox just automatically opened to a blue screen allowing me to select which index page I want from the list along the bottom of the screen. Perhaps later you could list those available index pages on the blue screen (as well as along the bottom of the screen).  This should not be difficult to do (it does not change any feature of the app) and maybe can be changed rather quickly.

Why?  Well because today I opened Dropbox on my phone to show a friend a pdf just added to dropbox (on a Mac) an hour before, and the app opened to index page "recents" and there were photos there that may have offended him.  This is very, very bad.  Whoever implemented this foolish "improvement" should be sent for re-education, because it displays a stunning lack of thoughtfulness (not to mention forethought and consideration of potential consequences) at a time when everyone is more conscious of their privacy. To put it another way, those pictures of you at the Dore Alley Fair - in Dropbox so you can show your friends - should probably not be seen by your sister's kids, and yet, there they are right next to the kid friendly document you wanted to show them. Sorry. Let me repeat: Very Bad.

Thinking about who may be affected, I can't help but note that attorneys (including me), medical professionals, law enforcement, and anyone subject to privacy considerations (not to mention kids) would have to think twice about Dropbox as a solution. The potential of inadvertently "sharing" a document or a photo or even the existence of a document is just too dangerous.

Now I am not a paying member of the dropbox community - I use the free version - so I have no right to demand anything.  But, I beg you to change this situation as soon as you can. Making users click once more to see the recents index seems insignificant compared to the alternative. Note, I like the recents index; I just cannot have the app open to that page when launched.

Otherwise Dropbox works great for me. That pdf was there for me to show my friend, it just was keeping unfortunate company on the recents page; it would have been fine on the files page.

Thanks.