No support for iOS < 9 in Dropbox V2 API for Objective-C???

Yes, we dropped support for iOS 8 support in v3.0.12. We had to do so to support some changes to the authorization flow. There's more information in the release log.

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Yes, we dropped support for iOS 8 support in v3.0.12. We had to do so to support some changes to the authorization flow. There's more information in the release log.

Steve L.32

OK, thanks, project and my release notes updated.

Wow, this is too bad. I have an app that still proudly runs on the first iPad with iOS5. It is still fully functional and works well. With V2 and especially this change, the entire dropbox implementation will be useless. At the very least I was thinking maybe I could update just the dropbox part, but I guess not.

So the dropbox app will not work either I gather? So anyone not running iOS9 is out of luck with dropbox?

Stephen C.14

You're correct, Dropbox iOS app only supports iOS 9, so yes, anyone not running iOS 9 will not be able to use Dropbox.

But it's important to consider that this is an increasingly diminishing fraction of users. Less than 3% of users are on iOS 8 and less than 2% are on all other versions of iOS according to Apple.

Thanks but this is pretty depressing. It has been such a reliable and great storage service for the older iPads. Really sorry to see it go.

To the application engineers of Dropbox. Apple is forcing people to throw away perfectly good phones and pollute our environment and cost people a lot of money all to maintain their profit level. Please make an iOS 8 compatible version of Dropbox so we can keep using our phones. Thank you

@Hank66 Thanks for the additional feedback!

That amounts to over 30 million iOS 8 users that no longer have access to Dropbox.

Yes, it's really sad. My program has no way to auto download files now due to this change. I was hoping the dropbox app would work somehow but no.

iOS 11, 10, and 9 are backward compatible to V1, aren't they? if not, why not have more than one version of your client so you can stay compatible. Why inconveniencing so many people and potentially lose these customers? You might ask why not upgrade to iOS 9? The answer to that is Apple no longer provide iOS 9 and iOS 10 crashes older phones like the iPhone 4s which is still currently being resold on the market by mainstream phone vendors. Why risk crashing a phone, I tried the upgrade on my iPhone 5 and it bricked it. Apple won't resolve the issue. It is beneficial for Apple to force people to upgrade their hardware for profit, not to the end-user. Environmentally keeping older iPhones active with Dropbox is beneficial to a lot of people who use them in their everyday businesses. There are still millions of iPhone 4S in service to this day and much more for sale. iOS upgrade and those older model phones are guaranteed to break most of them.

There are over 30 million plus iOS 8 users that no longer have access to Dropbox. There are over 20,000,000 other IOS users below IOS 9. Why would Dropbox want to inconvenience 50 Million plus customers? Not a good business practice. Were they paid off by Apple to do this? Not saying they were, but something is very suspicious here. Having a backward compatible app makes a lot of sense.

To the CEO of Dropbox, do you care about your users? Just think of all those older IOS, OS X and Windows devices out there. This is a large avenue of current and potentially new customers. Think about this, you won't regret it.

Thanks for the detailed feedback @Hank66! I'm sending this along to the team.

Tantara1

If you add the number of IOS 9.3 users who now are not able to downlaod Dropbox, that is a staggering number of users. Why don't developers realise that a lot of users are not going to update to the latest release if they are happy with what they are using!

Thanks for the feedback @Tantara1 !