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Dropbox's AI features share your files with OpenAI unless you change this setting
Third-party AI features aren't for everyone these days
Dropbox is an awesome tool for file sharing and collaboration on important professional projects. Its file search features have been enhanced with AI to skip steps when analyzing your request, getting your result faster. This machine learning is achieved by Dropbox's partnership with OpenAI, a company dedicated to developing and improving machine learning.
Dropbox kills its unlimited cloud storage option because people kept abusing it
Overzealous users might've burst the unlimited cloud bubble
If you look around at all the best cloud storage options, giants like Microsoft and Google have already waved goodbye to their unlimited storage plans. Now, Dropbox has followed suit. Recently, Dropbox reported that it is revising its storage policy in response to a marked increase in non-business-oriented usage of its unlimited plan.
Dropbox is bringing its password manager to all users in April
Limited to 50 passwords on Basic accounts
While Lastpass has started enforcing its new rules designed to push users towards a premium plan, Dropbox is moving in the opposite direction. Beginning in April, all Dropbox users will have access to Dropbox Passwords, the passwords manager first launched last summer for Plus and Professional accounts, albeit with some major limitations.
Dropbox aims to be the ultimate collaborative workspace with Spaces 2.0
Spaces 2.0 lets you manage tasks, post updates, and set up meetings all in one place
Dropbox used to just be a simple cloud file service, but the company has been adding more collaborative features to compete with G Suite and Microsoft 365. The 'Spaces' feature arrived last year, which lets you add descriptions and to-do lists to Dropbox folders, and now Spaces is receiving an overhaul with more functionality.
Dropbox Family is now available for everyone, and it's one hell of a bad deal
More expensive than Google's and Microsoft's family offers
Not too long ago, Dropbox introduced a whole slew of new features to its subscribers without raising its prices: there's its own password manager, the extra secure Dropbox Vault, and the option to back up select folders outside Dropbox from your computer. The company also announced a Family plan that would let up to six people share a single 2TB account, and today, this new tier is available to everyone. It costs $16.99 a month, which is just $7 more than a one-user Dropbox Plus subscription.
Facebook expands photo and video export with Dropbox support
The new connectivity extends to Koofr cloud storage, as well
Earlier this year, Facebook introduced worldwide a tool for users to export uploaded pictures and video to Google Photos. This was all well and good, but if you preferred to keep your photos elsewhere, you were stuck manually adding them to your favorite service. Today, Facebook announced integration with both Dropbox and Koofr, allowing you to export your photos and videos to the services with just a few clicks.
Dropbox for Android reaches 1 billion installs on the Play Store
Partially boosted by deals with OEMs
Dropbox has been available on Android for just over ten years, and in that decade, it has evolved into one of the best cloud storage options available for the platform. Now the app has passed one billion installations, reaching the same milestone that applications like Twitter and Netflix recently passed.
Dropbox adds computer backups, a secure vault, and password management
If you trust Dropbox with your files, you might as well hand over your passwords
Even with memory cards and USB drives, there comes a time when you run out of local storage. Dropbox is one of the most popular ways to keep stuff in the cloud, and today the company has released a new set of features including computer backups, a PIN-protected Vault, and a password manager.
Dropbox declares end of support for Android 4.4 KitKat and 5 Lollipop
But the app will probably keep working for a long time
It's always admirable when a developer supports older operating systems; but there comes a time of diminishing returns when the effort to keep software working on old versions becomes disproportionately expensive compared to the ever-dwindling number of decrepit devices that still use an app. Such is the situation with Dropbox, which just declared the end of support for Android 5.x and older.
Last year, Chrome OS added support for displaying files from Android cloud storage apps. The feature worked immediately with apps that already used Android's DocumentsProvider API, including OneDrive and Box, but Dropbox didn't support the API at the time. Dropbox has finally added the API, giving it integration with the Chrome OS file manager.
Dropbox brings new eSign feature to all desktop users
Subsidiary HelloSign gets a high-profile path to monetization
Dropbox is launching a native method for its users to electronically sign and secure signatures from others on its web client using HelloSign, a startup it acquired last year for $230 million. The integration is the latest in a series of a monetized additions to its core cloud storage business this year.
Google already throws in a few perks with the purchase of Chromebooks, like three months of Disney+ or copies of Doom I and II, but now there's an extra bonus. If you've bought a Chromebook recently, you might be able to get 100GB of free Dropbox storage for 12 months.
Dropbox fully rolling out mobile dark theme, password manager, spins off document scanner into iOS app
Look out for a dedicated file transfer service later this year
Dropbox is shaking up the dog days of this summer of working from home with the deployment of a few features that have been in beta for what feels like forever. Plus, it's also spinning off its documenting scanning feature into an app and introducing a file transfer service with separate quotas to users' cloud storage.
Dropbox begins rolling out pricey family plan following massive feature update
Twice the cost of Google's family 2TB plan
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Dropbox has finally fessed up to beta testing a new password manager app. That's just one of several service improvements it announced today that will enhance ease of use and security. But the one that takes the cake today is the ability to sync selected folders from the desktop.
Dropbox has been slow to the punch when it comes to putting on its night vision goggles — it's had good company on that front — but we probably didn't even notice when it put them on. Alas, we've done some work, made a few observations, and have concluded that the cloud storage provider's Android app does include a dark mode.
Dropbox is working on its own password manager
An early access Play Store listing for the new Dropbox Passwords app just appeared
Dropbox just unceremoniously dumped a brand new app on the Play Store with no fanfare or formal announcement. The new Dropbox Passwords app, according to its listing, is a password manager available exclusively in an invite-only private beta for some Dropbox customers.
Dropbox rolls out 13 new Extensions for video editing, sharing files, and more
Gmail, Workplace by Facebook, Microsoft Teams, Outlook, WhatsApp, and more.
About a year ago, Dropbox introduced Extensions, which allowed third-party apps and services to integrate with your content. For instance, you could sign documents with Adobe Sign and DocuSign directly from Dropbox, without having to worry about transferring files. Dropbox is now announcing 13 new extensions, which will integrate with your documents and folders seamlessly.
Despite competition from tech giants like Google and Microsoft, Dropbox has remained one of the best cloud storage options because it just syncs files. However, the desktop app was recently overhauled to become a hub for all your work, and now Dropbox is introducing a new feature for people collaborating on a project.
Fans of third-party cloud storage providers will be excited when Chrome OS 75 finally reaches the Stable Channel. The update will deliver an optional flag which enables storage services other than Drive to finally integrate into the Files app in Chrome OS via Android apps — though not all third-party storage solutions are compatible.
If you happen to prefer Dropbox as your (or your employer's) cloud storage solution of choice, you might've had fleeting thoughts about how difficult it's been to navigate through its user interface — whether it's on mobile or on your desktop or laptop. Now, the company has decided that far from its service being just a box in the sky, it has created new macOS and Windows apps to act as a hub for communications, file sharing, and crafting with a clean and adaptive design.