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Apple IOS Change to Upload Multiple Pics/Files to Dropbox
It seems that Apple have made changes to their IOS that limits the upload of pictures and files to a dropbox folder to one image at a time.
Previous to the latest IOS upgrade you could select any number of images and upload them to a dropbox folder (I did this frequently) but now you can only do one image at a time.
Apple clearly pushing users to the icloud!
For what it's worth, I don't think this workflow is at all discoverable. There's no reason I would have thought to go to the Files app in order to enable Dropbox save from the Photos app, and even within the Files app it's not obvious how you turn it on. It would make more sense if it were a setting in Dropbox itself, but I'm guessing that's not possible.
Just to make it clear how to do this for people who haven't figured it out yet:
- Open the iOS Files app
- Tap on "Browse"
- If you're already in a folder, hit the back ("<") button in the upper left
- From the "..." button in the upper right, tap Edit
- You should now see "Dropbox" under "Locations" with a switch. Turn the switch on.
- In Photos, select some photos and tap the Share button.
- Tap "Save to Files"
- You should now see "Dropbox" as an option under Save to Files.
From now on you should always get Dropbox as an option - you should never need to redo steps 1-5. However, the first time I did this, "Dropbox" was grayed out in step 8. I killed Files, Photos, and Dropbox, then reopened Dropbox and Photos, and eventually Dropbox became enabled. It's possible none of that was necessary and it just needed a little time to retrieve the list of folders from Dropbox.
(Frankly, the design of the Files app itself seems confusing. "Edit" is a weirdly generic verb for "configure the list of locations to show files from".)
- Rich
Super User II
Still works just fine for me, on the latest iOS. I've sent multiple files from my Camera Roll to Dropbox via the Files app, and directly within the Dropbox app.
What steps, exactly, are you taking to upload your files?
1. Open Photos
2. Select multiple pics
3. select upload button bottom left
4. up comes the options (use to have dropbox as an option)
5. Select More... (still no dropbox)
Note, when I do one pic, drop box is there as an option in 4.
How about :
- Open Dropbox app
- Click the +/Create button and choose Upload Photos
- Select your photos
- Click Next
- Choose you upload folder
- Click Upload.
