You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
Mobile currently only allows A-Z sort by name. Please allow Z-A sort option.
With date naming A-Z always displays oldest files first. Please allow a swap!!
Not having this feature is so annoying, and I would have thought relatively simple to implement and found on every other app that uses lists.
- Walter
Dropbox Staff
Status changed:Gathering SupporttoNot for right now 
emilyc123Dropbox Product Manager
Hi Ebiss and Steve,
May I ask if your mobile device is an Android or iOS device? We now have the ability to sort by reverse alphabetical order on Android devices. You can do so by
- Navigating to a folder
- Tap the existing sort method on the left side ("Name", "Modified", etc)
- Tap Sort by Name
- Tap the arrow to sort in reverse
Please let me know if this has solved your issue!
- Emmet
Community Manager
Status changed:Not for right nowtoAccepted I always had my folders named by date&event so to get to the newest I have to scrolle all the way down. Every single time. The lack of reverse order on iOS is really frustrating.
Reverse order dosen’t seem to be the rocket science. Common Dropbox Team, you can do it!- iar
Hey, engineer on the team working on iOS browse and file list updates here.
We are actually working on reverse sorting for iOS right now!
Unfortunately, this is baked into one of the oldest parts of the app codebase, and isn't just as simple as reversing a collection of items. Those items are fed into the file list from various data providers, and are parsed into sections based on what the current ordering type is.
There is actually one class dedicated to each ordering type! (Name, modified date, filetype, and size.) Each ordering class has to be updated individually to support reverse sorting, and each requires different logic for handling section clustering, various edge cases, and support for the myriad surfaces across the app in which a file list may appear.
We hope to rewrite much of this legacy Objective-C code in Swift at some point and take that opportunity to significantly simplify the architecture of these features so future development is much faster. For now, though, we're only able to confirm that reverse sorting is on the way.
Replying a bit late here, but excited to see your post re sorting of photos on Dropbox. I use Dropbox to store and sync photos that I export from Lightroom, including on iphone and ipad. I love that you don't compress the images like Apple does, I also love the your sync always just works. However, I just wish you allowed us to sort images by capture date. For photos capture date is the most important, and it's not something you offer right now, making it really just not work that well for me as either a viewing solution or even a file accessing solution (I have big folders). Any chance this might be added? Thanks!
- It would be great if Dropbox expanded on the folder sort options, especially an option to sort ascending (e.g. A-Z) or descending (e.g. Z-A).
I should specify that I’m referring to the Dropbox app specifically.
- Hannah
Hey conwaynorwood, thanks for reaching out to us!
I assume you're referring to the Dropbox mobile app, correct?
You can currently sort your files by 'modified', 'size', 'type' and 'name'.
If you sort them by name, does that somewhat help achieve what you want to do?
Keep me posted.
Hi, @Hannah! Yes, but those options only allow sorting one way (e.g. modified goes oldest to newest, name goes A-Z, size goes largest to smallest). It would be useful for me to have the option to switch that order to newest to oldest for modified, Z-A for name, and smallest to largest for size.
Hi Dropbox team,
I‘ve been also waiting for this feature for the iOS app for a long looong time and realized that it might help out if I also give my „vote“ for this.
In my case short by modified doesn’t solve the issue. E.g. my picture and videos are in folders shorted by YYYY-MM-DD. Sometimes I might edit them or get later some shared content which will be uploaded later and those would pop up on the top... On Mac or Windows obviously all is good, but on the mobile app, which I use the most, this little thing is frustrating me the most.
This feature would be highly appreciated.- JayStatus changed:AcceptedtoDelivered
