Upon hovering over a file, in fact, a “Share” button will appear: you can click it to instantly generate a Dropbox link that will open a new tab in your browser and that you can immediately send to someone else. The key to the new tray is that files can be clicked to be opened directly in the Finder and shared inline without leaving the app or bringing up a contextual menu. Inspired by the minimal design of the new Dropbox for iOS, the Mac app now comes with an iOS-like popover that contains two large shortcuts for your Dropbox folder in the Finder and at the top, a timeline of changes, and sync information at the bottom. Back in September, the company tried to introduce a new menubar design with another beta on the forums, but the concept was abandoned as it didn’t meet the expectations of several Dropbox users. The new Dropbox for Mac comes with a redesigned menubar tray with a timeline of the latest changes in your Dropbox account. The new version of the app has been available as beta on the company’s forums for a few months, and the final build can be downloaded here.
Please ensure you have turned on early releases and once the beta is available to you, you will receive a notification.ĭropbox previously said it would begin rolling out an updated version of its Mac app to beta testers in March, but development has evidently taken longer, leading to many complaints in a Dropbox forum thread about the matter.Dropbox has today released an update to its desktop client for Mac.
Your experience on PC devices,, and from the latest iOS and Android apps remains unaffected. For now, you can still double-click to open files in Finder. We hear your feedback and we're working hard on this experience.Ī public beta for full support of macOS will be available in early Q4. In the meantime, Dropbox users can continue to open online-only files on macOS Monterey and later by double clicking on them in the Finder app. If the latest timeframe promised by Dropbox is kept, the public beta for the new Mac app should be available around October to November, which is likely around the same time that Apple will publicly release macOS Ventura. The new version of Dropbox for Mac will include full support for opening online-only files, but the updated app has still yet to be released after several months. With the release of macOS 12.3 in March, Apple deprecated kernel extensions used by cloud storage services like Dropbox and OneDrive, resulting in users being unable to open online-only files stored on Dropbox or OneDrive in third-party apps after updating. Dropbox plans to release a public beta of its Mac desktop app with full support for macOS Monterey and later in the early fourth quarter of 2022, a company representative said today in a forum post shared on Reddit.
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