Dropbox new organized photo experience

I already use Dropbox as my main place to store and back up all of my photos. I intentionally don’t keep photos on my phone to avoid using device storage, so everything lives in Dropbox. 

 

The challenge is that my photos are now scattered across many folders, because folders are currently the only way to organize them. While this works for storage, it makes it hard to browse, rediscover, and enjoy my photos the way I can in a native Photos app. 

 

What I would love is a dedicated Photos section inside Dropbox that treats photos as photos, not just files in folders. 

 

What this Photos experience could include: 

A Photos tab (separate from folders)

Automatically surfaces all photos stored anywhere in Dropbox

Folder structure stays intact in Files, but Photos are unified in one view (or maybe we can select which folders will be part of the photo section

 

Date-based browsing

View photos by date taken, not upload date or folder location

Easily see: All photos from a specific year, Months, days, or events

This would let me access all photos from one year in one place, without photos from other years mixed in 

 

Map view

If photos include GPS metadata, show them on a map

Ability to zoom into countries or cities and see photos taken there

This would make travel photos especially easy and enjoyable to explore 

 

Filters and smart views

Filter by: Date range, Location, Media type (photos vs videos), Smart groupings like: “All photos this year” “Travel” “Favorites” 

 

Gallery-style experience

Clean grid view with zoomable thumbnails, Date headers, Album creation without needing to reorganize folders

 

This would allow me to keep using Dropbox as my primary photo storage solution, while also having a modern, intuitive photo browsing experience, similar to native phone photo apps, without relying on phone storage. Since many users already store large photo libraries in Dropbox, a native Photos experience would unlock much more value from content that’s already there