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Links from Dropbox no longer show a preview on Apple Messages
In the last 24 hours, Dropbox has stopped showing link previews when sending over Messages in iOS. Now, only the Dropbox icon and name shows. Has anyone found a fix for this? Before and After Screenshots attached.
We identified the issue and shipped a fix. The issue should be resolved within an hour. Thank you again for the reports!
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- Nancy
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hi gfondelio, and thanks for posting this on our forum!
Are you only having trouble when previewing links from Dropbox, or from other services as well?
Can you also clarify how you’re generating those links? What steps are you following exactly? Are these shared links you’re attaching to your iOS Messages?
Let me know.
Hi Nancy, yes, only links from Dropbox, and my colleagues are experiencing the same thing on their end. I'm copying the link to the file for sharing and pasting into Messages. Both the Dropbox app "copy link" and the web browser yield the same results.
- Nancy
Thanks for clarifying! Do these shared links end in raw=1, by any chance? If you click on them on Messages, do they open normally nonetheless or do they throw an error?
Hi yes this is a big problem when sending and receiving files! Impossible to keep track on whats what and to get an overlook. How do we fix this.
- Nancy
avidstraaf, are you also using iOS Messages or is this happening on another app?
Is this happening with all shared links, or specific ones that end in "raw=1”?
- This is a problem with all links. Now happening with folders too and making it impossible to keep track of what's what.
- Imessage is the only place where it used to preview the link. Facebook messanger don’t do that.
Im running the same version as when i bought the computer. Im not able to update because of fear of programs/plugins not working properly after that. - Actually on discord it used to preview but it doesnt do that anymore.
I click the “copy dropbox link” to generate. 
harrydbxDropbox Engineer
Hi gfondelio and avidstraaf,
Thanks for reporting this. This is a bug and engineers are looking at it now.
