The solid implementation of Dropbox’s existing support for Microsoft Office gives hope that the service will play just as nicely with Google when the time comes. It’s unknown, for instance, if the change will primarily impact Dropbox on the web, or if Dropbox’s mobile app will be also optimized to do things like preview Google files and open them in their appropriate iOS apps for editing one would hope mobile will reap the benefits too. Today’s announcement post is unfortunately short on details of exactly when this integration will launch (besides saying “later this year”), or what it will look like. It’s certainly good news for Dropbox users though, as Google Docs has long been the gold standard of web-based, collaborative document services. And when you’re working in Dropbox, you’ll be able to save Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides to your Dropbox account.Ĭonsidering how much effort Dropbox has poured into building its own Google Docs competitor in Dropbox Paper, it’s surprising to see the company embrace the competition wholeheartedly with a full-fledged integration like this. The most prominent of those new ties involves Google Docs:ĭropbox users will be able to create, open, edit, save, and share Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides directly from Dropbox. Today on its blog, Dropbox announced an exciting piece of news: the company will soon add integrations between its service and Google’s G Suite. I was hoping one of them would be Markdown (.md) files, but unfortunately those still can’t be edited in-app.ĭespite the fact that Dropbox users can now do most document management inside the Files app, Dropbox continues to improve its app and make it a solid option for those who prefer not to use Files. The app’s release notes also state that there is improved previewing and new text editing abilities for more than 120 file extensions, but the specifics of those extensions are unknown. I find that this feature is especially helpful when you’re using the grid view for files, but it could also be of benefit in list view if you have a lot of long file names that will no longer be truncated.
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Also, I’m happy to report that file moving via drag and drop works on both iPad and iPhone.ĭrag and drop capabilities have technically been available already for Dropbox users via managing your documents in Apple’s Files app, but if you need or simply prefer to use Dropbox’s own app, these are great features to have.Īnother change in today’s update is that on the iPad, you can now close the file previewing pane to get a fullscreen browsing experience with your files – just hit the X in the upper left portion of the preview pane to get fullscreen navigation. I’ve always felt Dropbox’s method of moving files required too many taps, so drag and drop is a perfect solution for that. Equally exciting to me personally is that you can also use drag and drop for file management inside the app – just tap and hold on a file or folder and it will lift from its place, letting you drag it around and move it to other locations inside the app. Now if you need to add files to your Dropbox from another app, you can just pick them up and drop them right into the Dropbox app in exactly the folder you want.
The latest version of Dropbox for iOS includes some nice improvements, the most noteworthy of which is drag and drop support. Dropbox is very late in updating its app to offer native Apple silicon support, especially given that the service is so widely used, but it’s good to see the company following through with last fall’s promise. The new version of the app, which was noticed by a user in the Dropbox forums, was later confirmed by a Dropbox community manager, as reported by The Verge.
As reported by 9to5Mac, Dropbox released a native M1-based version of its app to beta testers, which can be downloaded here. The first sign of an Apple silicon version of Dropbox emerged late yesterday. The app also uses more power and other system resources than a native version would, and for an app that constantly runs in the background, that was a constant source of irritation for users. The existing Dropbox app uses Apple’s Rosetta translation layer, which is fast but can’t match a native Apple silicon app. (And agree the responses in the support thread were not ideal) We’ve been working for a while on a native M1 build which we aim to release in H1 2022. We’re certainly supporting Apple Silicon, sorry for the confusion.
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