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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