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Enable ipadOS Dropbox app for Apple Vision Pro

Dropbox had to explicitly deny iPadOS app from installation on AVP as iPadOS apps are compatible and enabled by default.

More than a year later and Dropbox still continues to keep the app blocked.

At this point I will have to look at migrating to a different vendor for my cloud storage. I have yet to come up with any reasonable reason why Dropbox would make the decision to block their iPad app from installation on Apple Vision Pro.

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Hannah

Hey @Aurorak, thanks for reaching out to our Community!

A relevant idea actually already exists on our forum; you can find it here.

You'll see that it's marked as "not for right now", but we still review all ideas, so you can still up-vote it to show your support.

Let me know if you have any questions!

databyte

That was the push I needed to cancel. Too bad the annual renewal was just a couple months ago. I saw a native Box app and I know iCloud works. Now to move some files around...

Hannah

Sorry to hear that, @databyte.

I understand where you're coming from though, so I passed your feedback to our team and if you need anything else, let me know.

databyte

Thanks for passing it along. I was looking back through settings and I earned my first extra 125 MB of space for linking to Twitter back on 2010-11-13 and my first invoice back in 2014 so I'm coming up on 15 years of use and 11 years as a paying customer from Essentials/Plus to Pro.

I get the need to diversify your offering with eSignatures and built-in photo editing but I already have an Adobe subscription too. At its core, I should be able to get access to my files on any device.

I'm not sure why the iPad version of Dropbox wouldn't work as I'm using 1Password that way and it's working perfectly fine. It has the extra complexity of handling Safari integration which Dropbox doesn't need to do. I know I'm over simplifying the implementation but I don't think anyone's looking for a fully native VR experience of floating around your files. Just a box with a list of files and a way to open them or copy them to the device.

Thanks.

Aurorak

Exactly - we want a 'dropbox' line item in the Files app just like on our MacBooks or iPads or a Dropbox app, just like on our iPads, so we can save files to our Dropboxes, open files from our Dropboxes -- like we do on any other platform. No ones gives a rip about it being a 'VR experience' with their files, we just want our files.

Given that all iPad apps are compatible with Apple Vision Pro by default and the app developer has to actively *opt out* of AVP this is willful, premeditated action on Dropbox's part to prevent users for using their product. I'd really love to know why.

Dropbox for love of everything just enable your EXISTING iPadOS app for AVP. It's a single checkbox.

Rich

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