iOS text editor is now available!

[Ed]

We are happy to announce that iOS now has a text editor! You can access this feature on any text file from the toolbar in the lower left corner.

[Timdier]

Bug Report:

Works fine on iPhone 6s.

Only problem I have on my iPad 4 mini is I can’t exit back to the folder list after saving the file. The back-arrow link does not show at the top left, and I am stuck looking at the just edited file. I have to kill the Dropbox app and restart. The file changes are saved however. 

Dropbox v 64.3

ios 11

—Tim 

[DanPH77]

If you close the app and you are still backed out of the file when you launch it will sync

[Timdier]

Not sure I understand your reply. I know the file is saved, but the Dropbox app is not usable and needs to be killed. The iPad mini version is missing is the “<“ in the upper left corner. It is there on my iPhone.

This is a bug report. I understand the work around, and I am fine with it

[Timdier]

Hi all, I just downloaded the iPad update that came out this morning, and the bug has been fixed. THANKS TEAM!
—Tim

[Jon T.7]

Hi,

I am wondering if there are any updates about this problem.

I have verified that the problem persists:

I can only edit (on my phone) .txt files that I create on my phone, not ones created on my Mac.

Jon

[Timdier]

Hi Jon, I have no problem editing the same txt file on my iphone, ipad, and Win10 pc --Tim

[Jorgos]

SO very happy about this new functionality. Some feedback though:

1. I have a text file that is 350 kB big, and it's awfully slow to edit that file. In comparison, a newly created file has almost decent responsiveness.

2. When clicking on the edit icon, the cursor is inserted at the bottom of the file. I always add text to my files at the top. The optimal thing would be to remove the icon and insert the cursor where the user clicks on the file. I understand that it has implications with selection etc, but still more logical IMO.

[Jon T.7]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.  I verified that if I create a new .txt file on my Mac, it is editable on my phone.  However, an old .txt file (created years ago) that I want to edit is not.  I don't know why, but it's is a solvable problem.

Jon

[Graeme B.2]

Thank you!! I have been waiting for this for years. This makes ios so much more usable for me, and I’ll be in dropbox a lot more.

Not sure how hard it would be, but support for markdown .md files would be great. (They’re effectively plain text)

[biggles]

Can you tell me exactly what encoding DB iOS text editor uses when it creates a .txt file? ASCII, UTF-8??

I have a Unicode .txt file that comes up totally blank if I open it DB - in order to view & edit in DB what encoding should I use to save that file?