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Create file requests from iOS or Android mobile app.

Create file requests from iOS or Android mobile app.

stu_
New member | Level 2

I'm looking for mobiles to be able to send a file request via the mobile app.

I haven't managed to find a way to do this on iOS, so is it only possible to do it via the dropbox website?

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Walter
Dropbox Staff
This idea has been closed due to inactivity. 
 
Thank you for your suggestion, and if you have another idea to share, please do! 
Status changed to: Closed
30 Comments
Perlundgren
New member | Level 2

I’ts about time we faithful users trough many years get this feature available by now. Most of us (at least the ones I know urge for this feature), and we work from our mobile units It’s to hard having to get a hold of a PC/Mac need to use that every time we need to request important and urgent files.

 

Best regards

Per Lundgren

TheRealGeek
Explorer | Level 3
When meeting with clients and they ask for a secure link to upload files, it would be nice to be able to create it in the moment vi mobile app instead of telling them to wait until I get back to my computer.

I know I can go to the website on my phone but then what do I need the app for?
BoogieJ
New member | Level 2

Please add a file request feature to the iOS version of the app.

Wildeir
New member | Level 2

Would love to have the option to request file from my iOS app instead of waiting till I come across a desktop. It doesn’t make sense to why this isn’t already a thing.

Spacer
New member | Level 2
Why has this obvious lack in functionality of the app, which has been raised by users for years, still not been remedied??

This is 2022, Dropbox needs to come to terms with the fact that people use mobile devices for everything. I pay decent money for Dropbox and I still can’t do a pretty basic thing using my iPhone or iPad. Is there a reason Dropbox hasn’t allowed File Request on mobile apps?
jeffholton
New member | Level 2

Oh I could really use this right now. I want to receive a file from someone and it is not easy to contact them from the computer, but it is easy to contact them from my mobile. Sharing the desktop link to my device is doable, but not very streamlined, even with Dropbox itself. I can drop it into a new text file, open the text file on the device, copy it to a message, and then delete the file. This seems like a process that could easily be automated to create the feature, too. Just needs a UI on the mobile end.

leaf428
New member | Level 2

Hello, I can't find the button for file request on iOS app but I can do it on the website using iPhone or any computer. Could you build this into the Dropbox iOS app? It would be much easier if I don't have to log in to the browser every time just to use this function. Thanks.

roverdb
Helpful | Level 6

Stillll need this feature. Weird that we have to switch to the desktop site to send clients a file request link. 

Walter
Dropbox Staff

Hi all, i just wanted to mention that the Dropbox app for Android allows users to create/edit file requests while the iOS app does not at the moment. 

 

Neither has upload capabilities and mobile users would have to upload via a web browser. 

Walter
Dropbox Staff
This idea has been closed due to inactivity. 
 
Thank you for your suggestion, and if you have another idea to share, please do! 
Status changed to: Closed
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