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iOS Document Picker greyed out

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/view_controllers/providing_access_to_directories

let documentPicker = UIDocumentPickerViewController(documentTypes: [kUTTypeFolder as String], in: .open)
documentPicker.delegate = self
present(documentPicker, animated: true, completion: nil)

ChHfJ2p

I cannot select Dropbox (or Google Drive...).

Does anyone have a solution for this?

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Greg-DB

The Dropbox document picker doesn't support opening folders, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.

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Greg-DB

The Dropbox document picker doesn't support opening folders, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.

Bassebus

Ok, no problem. Thanks for the reply, at least I can stop spending time trying to get this to work

RosemaryOrchard

I would like to request this feature as well - I am unable to sync folders of files in most applications and it would be really helpful to be able to do so!

Greg-DB

@RosemaryOrchard Thanks for the feedback!

joeybladb

Please please please make this work. It can't be more than a dozen lines of code, and you'll be able to say you beat those as*holes over at Google Docs to the punch. You're better and more intelligent and definitely more sexy that Google.

Greg-DB

@joeybladb Thanks for the note! I'll send it along to the team.

Richard24

jbmorley

I too would like to add a request for this feature; it would vastly increase the utility of Dropbox for me on iOS, as a user, and as a developer of apps that provide file management utilities.

Greg-DB

@jbmorley Thanks for the feedback!

tomeumasco

Hi, I think there has been a misunderstanding.

It does not refer to the Dropbox Document Picker but to the iOS one. The bug occurs since iOS 13 when you use UIDocumentPickerViewController with UTTypeFolder, that is, to select a folder. But it is impossible to select anything in Dropbox, Google Drive, etc ... With other types for files such as UTTypePDF, UTTypeJPEG... access is allowed.

I know you can't do anything about it but if you could open a bug report in Apple maybe they will listen to you more.

Greg-DB

@tomeumasco Thanks for the note. I'll share this with the team.