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Dropbox Apple Silicon (M1) install
Hi,
I recently purchased a MacBook Pro 13" with the M1 processor and I cannot seem to get a native install of Dropbox for this chipset. From searching the community, it seems like M1 support sh...
Hi all,
Native Apple silicon support is now fully available. All users with Apple silicon devices will receive the native version of Dropbox automatically. If you would like to update your device manually, you can do so by clicking on the latest Stable Build and downloading the Offline Installer (Apple Silicon) file. For more information, visit the Dropbox Help Center.If you need assistance with anything else, please feel free to create a new thread and our community team will be happy to assist.
I have been watching this thread closely for a while to see if anything happens, but as we know, no dice. I contacted their support in hopes to get to a Product Manager but no such luck.
I have logged an idea with Dropbox in the hopes that gets to the Product Team opposed to the front line support team.
👍👍👍👍 Please vote on the Idea: 👍👍👍👍
A lot of moaning, but only 31 votes (including mine - I got my M1 today) to get Dropbox to port to M1.
Please go here and add your vote - you will see other ideas have much more support:
I agree on voting, but I also think this is not a feature request. Most users won't vote for this, because they don't even know what they are voting for. There are more requests that should not need a vote, they seem very obvious, for example:
- dark-mode, every OS and every App I use have these features, it's requested many times. Even now that Dropbox is basically a web-app running on the desktop Dark Mode this request is stil "In Review". It's like Dropbox is living in a cave :S (source)
- The overlay icons problem in Windows, it's basically a bug.. or at least a dirty hack from Dropbox (source)
In regard to M1 support, how can this be blocked as a 'suggestion', is Dropbox going to wait until it just breaks? (oh, wait they did that last year) (source ). The developers probably know that Rosetta 2, which is used as a temporary compatibility layer is just that: "a temporary compatibility layer" provided by Apple to give developers some time to port over to the new architecture, user should not need to vote to get this in the developers agenda!
My guess is that it is probably on the agenda, the question is: are we going to need to wait until it breaks, like last year.
Another month and no news from Dropbox.
Dropbox is now the ONLY application running on Rosetta on my MacBook. We already knew people at Dropbox are just a bunch of lazy bastards but this is just going too far.
I am not renewing my subscription.
i was just thinking about renewing my sub, and now that i see they don't have native m1 support, i won't be. Onedrive does not either, and it's slow as heck. Google drive does, so I may just put my stuff there.
I agree.
But Adobe gets my vote for worst of the worst.
Open-source Dropbox client that runs natively on Apple Silicon:
https://github.com/SamSchott/maestral
- A vote on that post won't change one thing. But this thread sure does bring out the apologists. This is my last post in this thread
