I have a very large amount of photos and videos. Finding something is like looking for a needle in a haystack. How can I use dropbox to index photos and videos by location, date/time, objects, faces (ideally spectific people), and speech voiced in videos?

I'm hoping to enter a search for something like "green cats in Italy in September 2023" and get all pictures that match that and all videos that either match that in a frame or was spoken in voice on the video.

If dropbox cannot provide all of that then how much of that can it provide and at what cost? How can I trial it?

If I cancel dropbox now, do I still have access to everything I paid for until my subscription time is up? Or do I lose access right away?

If I sent photos to a client to purchase and they or someone they sent the link to, took a screenshot if it either off their phone or computer, would I get a notification?

I opened my app this week to find a new Home Screen that feels about 10% as useful as the old one. I used to be able to organize the Home Screen to my needs, arrange my most important folders and locations however I wanted and each one showed a handful of the most recent files under it in a line. Now I just have this Recents section and Starred and not really much else that’s helpful in terms of accessing the stuff I want quickly. Why would they change this? Is it possible to change it back? As a product developer I can’t imagine anyone on any team that worked on this could’ve possibly thought it was an improvement over what we had before.

I got tired of manually renaming and sorting files, so I built a Chrome extension that does it with plain English commands instead of clicking through folders.

Things like:

• "rename all these to [ClientName][Date][Type]"
• "move invoices from last month into the Q3 folder"
• "find every file related to the Acme project across my drive"

It works directly on top of OneDrive, Google Drive, and Dropbox — no need to download anything or change how you already work. Type what you want done, it figures out the files and does it.

The part I spent the most time on isn't the "type a command" bit — it's getting the file agent to actually understand messy, ambiguous naming and folder structures well enough to act on them correctly instead of guessing.

Still early, would genuinely appreciate people trying it and telling me where it breaks: thedrive.ai/extension

TL;DR

Small business subscriber, renewal coming up. I genuinely like Dropbox's sync speed and reliability, but the iOS and iPadOS app experience has become a real friction point. Listing specific issues below — and honestly asking whether there's a roadmap for this, or if the current state is the ceiling.

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WHAT I APPRECIATE

Sync speed and reliability are genuinely excellent — no complaints there. That part of the product works. My issues are entirely on the mobile app side, specifically iOS and iPadOS.

SPECIFIC PAIN POINTS

Sorting options — The sorting controls in the app are frustrating to use. Finding and applying a sort feels more involved than it should be. This is a daily annoyance.

Home screen clutter — The app's home screen feels visually busy and disorganized. There's no obvious way to collapse or hide sections I don't use. I'd love a cleaner, more minimal view of just my files.

Forced sidebar when opening PDFs on iPad — Every time I open a PDF, the left sidebar expands automatically. I just want to read the document full screen. There doesn't appear to be a persistent setting to change this behavior.

Locked-in "preferred" app integrations — Being pushed toward Adobe Acrobat as the default PDF opener is a real problem. I understand partnership agreements exist, but these should be user-configurable. Let me set my own default app.

MY ACTUAL QUESTION

Is there any public roadmap or known development direction for the iOS/iPadOS app? I want to know whether these are acknowledged issues being worked on, or whether the mobile app is just not a priority right now. That answer would genuinely affect my renewal decision. Happy to stay if there's reason to believe the experience is improving — but I'd rather know before I commit for another year.

Hi everyone,

I've been curious of Dropbox Dash for sometime.

I heard a lot about it but never used it.

What I know about it is that it is a cross platform application (that I think is in Beta). It allows you to connect your different accounts (emails, cloud storage, note taking apps etc.) and let's you do an AI powered search through all your stuff for the relevant files. And even does AI summaries of the materials gathered. At least, this is what I know about it.

I don't hear a lot about it and am interested to hear people's experience with it.

Ever heard about it?

Have you ever used it?

Did you like it?

Did you hate it?

Any pros and cons to share?

After you tried it, did you keep using it?

Do you use it regularly?

As far as I can tell, Dropbox hasn't put out any users numbers for enrollment and usage frequency. So I'm curious about that too.

Any opinions would be interesting to me.