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Swe T.'s avatar
Swe T.
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

How to Clear or Remove the Recent file list in mobile apps

I want to clear all the Recent file list, there has no clear function please advise how to clear the list. Thanks & regards Swe Tin
Mobile
Third Party Integrations
  • Sam DBX's avatar
    Sam DBX
    2 years ago
    Hi everybody,
     
    We’d like to provide an update on this topic:
     
    Keep in mind that you can completely hide the Recents section with the new modular home layout on mobile:
     
    1. Open the Dropbox mobile app.
    2. Tap the customize icon (artist palette) 🎨
    3. To add or remove a default section, tap the toggle next to Recents, Starred, Camera Uploads, 4. Viewed links, Shared, or Offline.
    5. Tap Save to save your changes.
     
    You can find more info in here.
     
    Also, based on your comments, our team is working on improving the recents list update (when an item is deleted remotely). Thank you for sharing your feedback on this.
     
    We'll keep you in the loop for future features related to this.
    Sam 
Stefanie's avatar
Stefanie
Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
9 years ago

Hi Thomas, hi everyone,

If you go back to page 7 or 6 of this thread, you'll be able to find my last posts. While I won't always reply to this thread, I can reassure you that myself as well as the product manager for Recents are reading your updates. We do hear your concerns and take them seriously. For example we recently changed the default behavior of the app which now allows you to re-open the app back onto the page where you left it. This means that the app won't open on the Recents page anymore, if you leave it on the file browser. We are considering making some big changes to the landing page in the app in the long term (2017). For this and any other related projects we will keep your feedback in mind. Please keep it coming and rest assured that this thread is not going unnoticed.

Regards,

Sofia

  • AkPaparazzi's avatar
    AkPaparazzi
    Helpful | Level 7
    9 years ago

    Stephanie thank you for responding - takes guts with this crowd. :-) Seriously, with all do respect, it can appear to some, that product managers - DropBox, has spent little time using their product in a practical sence.  Not everyone uses the same computer and browser to display, show and edit their content. Hence, the need for a drop box.  Please correct me if I am wrong, what you are saying is if we use the same computer and browser with same history and cookies to access the DropBox it will reopen the app back to the same page we left off? Sorry, don't want that feature either. Please, allow us to control the content of OUR drop box. I for one, am looking for a service that will. I cannot believe, especially after reading this thread, that I am the minority opinion on this, “feature?”.

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