How to speed up Dropbox uploads on iPhone

[ashley m.18]

Dropbox sync only happens when I have the Dropbox iPhone app actively open, and even then it takes about 5 minutes to upload a single photo. This is for camera roll sync.

[Jen C.7]

This is seriously ridiculous!  Is there any way to get this to go faster?  I've been going on DAYS to upload one video and I can't wipe out my iPhone photos as I'm not sure which ones have uploaded and which have not.  Please help!

[Andy C.22]

I've found that if I plug my iPhone 5s into power source and open the Dropbox app, the app will at stay open whilst it uploads, I had 300+ pictures and short videos which It managed to clear in one night. Poor show to need such a workaround though, especially for the premium price.

[Steven S.10]

Same here in the Netherlands with Iphone 6s and 4g or 20Mbps cable upload connection, it takes minutes before 1 photo is uploaded to Dropbox 😞

[robert w.19]

Things are finally working properly for me. Much better now uploading from my phone

[Jaron H.]

Same as everyone else... For what seems like more than a year I can't upload anything but a few photos to Dropbox. I currently have 1300+ photos/videos waiting in que. Can't back anything up on my iPhone. What's up?

[Ian M.38]

I'm using google photos and Dropbox. Google app uploaded 250 photos in less than an hour, Dropbox has uploaded 40 photos in 4 hours. Terrible speed

[Lawrence S.6]

Hi everyone, this happened to me as well. Only mine is really slow only on Wi-Fi, the moment I turn off my Wi-Fi and change to LTE, it uploads reasonably fast. As my home Wi-Fi is at least 30Mbps, this does not makes sense. 

Come on Dropbox, if Google Photos can do it - then you can do it! Heck, your Carousel app did it too - brilliantly! 

[karsten h.3]

upload seems to really start everytime only after actually opening the dropbox app. very very annoying

[Jonathan Z.2]

Same problem here :(
This is one of the longest thread I have ever seen where the moderators don't even bother replying... sad

[shanta r.]

Same problem... have tried everything mentioned but it still remains painfully slow.

Even more frustrating is that Dropbox doesn't care to address this issue. Disappointing.