Dropbox status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of Dropbox reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Dropbox users through our website.

• Errors (60%)
• Sign in (20%)
• Website Down (20%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Dropbox outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Nottingham	Errors	16 days ago
Guayaquil	Website Down	16 days ago
Flumet	Errors	27 days ago
Irapuato	Errors	29 days ago
Bournemouth	Sign in	3 months ago
Paramaribo	Errors	4 months ago

Full Outage Map

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Dropbox Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 1 minute ago

  Dropbox treats an 80GB Unreal project like any other folder. Mid-previz, it chokes. Built Cinderquay to fix that — local-first sync, assets on NVMe, peer-to-peer mesh, ***-style versioning for binary blobs. Studios building worlds shouldn't pay egress to anyone. Live soon.

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  Tom Alder (@tomaldertweets) reported 3 minutes ago

  In 2009, Dropbox founder Drew Houston took a meeting at Apple HQ thinking it was about a partnership. Steve Jobs opened with an offer to buy his company. Houston, still in his 20s, turned down 9 figures on the spot. Jobs pushed back with a warning: "You're a feature, not a product." If they wouldn't sell, Apple would build a direct competitor themselves. They wouldn't sell. Apple shipped iCloud. A phenomenally successful product, but it didn't kill Dropbox. Dropbox had quietly built the best customer acquisition loop in software history: → Give a friend an invite, you both get free storage. When Apple made the acquisition offer, Dropbox had around 2 million users. By January 2010, 4 million users. By April 2010, users were sending 2.8 million invites a month. 1 every single second. Dropbox's growth curve went ballistic after the Apple discussion: → 50m users by 2011 → 100m users by 2012 → 500m users by 2016 In 2017 they became the fastest software company in history to reach $1 billion ARR. Today: 700m+ registered users and $2.5b a year in revenue - sitting a fraction behind 850 million+ iCloud users. - 🎁 P.S. I turned Dropbox's referral playbook into a free guide - comment "Dropbox" and I'll send it to you.

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  Daniel Foerster (@pydsigner) reported 3 minutes ago

  @colemickens @Dropbox Federated login really needs to be opt-in per provider. I shouldn't be able to log in using Lenovo (or Google, Facebook, Microsoft...) unless I used that provider during account creation or added it afterwards.

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  Naresh Mintri (@Yogamaestro) reported 3 minutes ago

  @IncomeTaxIndia Seems like e-filing portal overloaded. Taking long to register new taxpayer, buffering. Even dropbox menus not working. Plz look into it. Thanks.

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 4 minutes ago

  Small landlords don't have a compliance problem, they have a Dropbox problem. Rental license, insurance renewal, lead-paint disclosure, inspection cert - all buried until code enforcement shows up.

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  Christopher Bailey (@LexBaileyAI) reported 8 minutes ago

  @TetraspaceWest At Fitbit we hired a half dozen people from Jawbone who brought everything cleverly hidden in Dropbox. They got prosecuted. Decade later, companies kaput but Fable found it, processed it and now it’s intermixed in various *** repos and Huggingface. Is nVidia now in trouble?

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  🪬M🪬 (@_marokiya) reported 8 minutes ago

  Apple be bullshitting about this iCloud storage. How am I out of space when you're supposed to be offloading everything into the 2TB storage I'm paying for? Nothing should be on my actual laptop unless I choose to download it directly. DropBox somehow never has this issue.

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  Ed Giansante (@edugiansante) reported 9 minutes ago

  every founder i talk to is hiring a head of community wrong. i've been that hire four times. Zynga, Wix, Dropbox, Persona. 15 years, three continents. every time the JD was wrong, the expectations were wrong, and the first 90 days were a mess until i rewrote them myself. the JD problem. most community job descriptions read like a social media manager with extra steps. "manage our Discord, post engagement content, track NPS." that tells me the founder thinks community is content moderation with a better title. a real head of community JD should say: build the infrastructure where customers trust each other enough to solve problems together, and connect that trust back to pipeline and retention. if the JD doesn't mention revenue or product feedback loops, you're hiring the wrong role. the first 90 days. at Dropbox i walked into 400M+ users and zero community infrastructure. no forums, no events, power users had no way to talk to the product team. days 1 to 30: listen. real conversations with 50 customers. find the 10 who love your product enough to evangelize it for free. those are your founding members. wrong. within 2 weeks we had an outage and I had to source folks who were talking about Dropbox in different spaces - dev forums, stackoverflow, spiceworks, hackernews and so on. I was honest enough to share what was going on, my role and where i needed their help. days 31 to 60: build the first room. not a Slack with 14 channels nobody uses. one focused format. at Persona it was a 15 person dinner for compliance leaders. at Wix it was a partner council of 80K agencies. start small, make it valuable enough that people tell their peers. days 61 to 90: prove the loop. connect a community interaction to a business outcome. a feature request that shipped. a deal that closed because a customer introduced a prospect. a churn save from a power user helping a frustrated customer. if your community hire can't show that loop by day 90, something is off. forget member count or engagement. track these: repeat attendance. show up rates. at my dinners, 90% of RSVPs show up. 99% return. pipeline influence. what happens post dinner that can be attributed to $$$? product feedback velocity. how fast does a community insight reach the product team and ship? NPS delta. at Wix, partner community members renewed at 2-3x the rate of non members. the biggest mistake is org charting community as a sub-group within a random team. community sits between product, marketing, sales, and customer success. it touches biz relationships, partnerships, revenue, retention, and product roadmap. treat it that way. hire someone who's built it before and give them a seat at the leadership table.

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  Abhishek Singh (@0xlelouch_) reported 11 minutes ago

  System design question. How would you design Dropbox-style file sync with conflict handling? Constraints that make it interesting: 1) Multi-device edits while offline, then reconnect hours later 2) Large files (GBs), but common case is small diffs; do you chunk + hash + resumable upload? 3) At-least-once events from clients; duplicates and retries are normal 4) Need per-file causality: version vectors? server-assigned sequence? something else? 5) Conflicts: rename vs edit, delete vs edit, concurrent edits on same bytes; what gets auto-merged vs forked as conflicted copy? 6) Metadata vs content planes: directory tree ops must be atomic-ish, blobs can lag 7) End-to-end integrity: how do you detect corruption and avoid re-upload storms? 8) Fast convergence: target <5s to see changes on another device, but mobile battery + bandwidth are limited

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  Matt Uribe (@MattUribe) reported 13 minutes ago

  I can't get my @bot to login to @dropbox . Anyone else having that issue. It's kind of a big deal for what I am trying to set up with my team. No matter what, it says too many attempts when I try using chrome on my bots screen. The plugin has no place to authenticate. Also I wish I could sign an email login to each bot. Seems we can only link one for the team using outlook. I guess that's why it beta. :)

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  Martin (@martin_valchev_) reported 17 minutes ago

  Small feature, real problem: Handing a WordPress site to someone else usually means FTP credentials, database dumps, or a shared Dropbox folder that stays there forever. A link that expires and can be revoked is just... better. Security shouldn't require discipline. It should be the default.

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  FarhanX_AI (@FarhanBuildsAI) reported 21 minutes ago

  SETTING #1: Startup Apps Nobody Asked For What it does: Every time you install a new program, it quietly adds itself to a list of apps that launch the second Windows boots, whether you use it daily or once a year. Why it kills performance: Your laptop isn't just starting Windows when you power it on. It's simultaneously launching Spotify, Steam, Adobe updaters, Dropbox, Zoom, and a dozen other programs all fighting for the same limited CPU and RAM at once. How to fix it: Ctrl + Shift + Esc to open Task Manager → Startup apps tab. Disable everything except your antivirus and anything you genuinely open every single day. The technician found 19 apps launching automatically on her laptop. She recognized maybe 6 of them.

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  Mikemira (@storiesbyohama) reported 26 minutes ago

  Twitter did not explode online first. It exploded in a hallway. In 2007, Twitter was still small. Most people online did not care. So the team did not try to shout at the whole internet. They went to SXSW. They put two big screens in the corridor. People at the event sent a text. That text showed up on the wall in front of everyone. One person posted. Ten people saw it. Then those ten posted too. That is how usage jumped. Not from a giant ad. From one room full of the right people. This is the growth lesson most founders miss. You do not need the whole market on day one. You need one place where your first users already stand. A campus. A conference. A WhatsApp group. A Discord. One street. One event. Dropbox did this on Hacker News. Tinder did this at campus parties. Airbnb did this when hotels ran out of rooms. If signups are slow, stop spraying ads everywhere. Find the one room. Make the product visible there. Let people watch other people use it. That is how early growth actually starts. I'm Miracle Ohama, a Growth Marketer helping B2B SaaS & tech companies find and fix revenue leaks across their funnel, I fix Growth Funnels & build real experiments that increase ARR.

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  Juan Pabro (@ironwoodreserve) reported 28 minutes ago

  @BitPaine @Dropbox Is now the worse time to try to login? I was a sent 2FN right as I was getting ready to click on what to use to login. It seemed way too fast for 2FN.

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  Bruno Marsino (@BrunoMarsino) reported 29 minutes ago

  Company for AI age: - Information should flow flat - Can’t wait to have all information to make decisions - Speed and excelente in execution is crucial - You should get as much info as possible during the constraint of time given by yourself - How do we prepare a company to be totally eligible for AI? Not only text info but images - Service of the future is not about giving agents to corps to solve problems but offering the solution/service driven by AI. - Even if all information is on the web, multiple file structures, owners, formats and file storage systems (dropbox, drive, box) add friction to information and decision making

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  Digita (@digitaworld1) reported 34 minutes ago

  Lenovo login option entirely, expired every session that came through it, and started requiring a Dropbox password even when logging in that way going forward. Shares dipped about 2.4% after the news broke. The real lesson here has nothing to do with Dropbox's own security.

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  Karishma Bhardwaj (@bkarishma360) reported 38 minutes ago

  @shahzamannn_ Your SaaS idea doesn’t need to be complicated. Stripe moves money. Postman sends API requests. Notion organizes information. Dropbox syncs files. The lesson? Simple problem + huge market + great execution = massive company. Stop asking, “Is my idea too simple?” Start asking, “How many people have this problem?”

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  Eric Taylor (@bcs_erictaylor) reported 38 minutes ago

  Really?? Dropbox really needs a MCP server? CVE-2026-81102 The Dash MCP server bound its listener to the loopback address but never checked the host a request named. src/mcp_server_dash.py constructed the server for its network mode with the interface restricted to loopback and no transport-security settings, so a name that had been pointed at the loopback address still reached the listener while carrying the attacker's host name. A page in a visitor's browser could therefore drive the local server and invoke its company-search and file-detail tools under the Dropbox credential the server holds. Only the network mode was reachable this way; the standard input mode was not. The fix supplies transport-security settings that enable host checking and allow only the loopback name and port, rejecting other hosts before a tool runs. The repository publishes no versions, so the affected boundary is the commit preceding the fix.

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  Ivan Kirigin (@ikirigin) reported 42 minutes ago

  @sethbannon I think I’d agree with the sentiment, and not the assessment. We’re not close to too many startups building weapons. The company with “drone” in the name that has the navy and other defense units as obvious potential customers doesn’t make a trend. If I had to put my finger on what has changed, Palantir and Anduril unlocked the latent interest in the space that matches the historically close connection between Silicon Valley and defense. It was just that the Overton window was locked down by people afraid to talk about what defense really means, and in many cases aren’t even Americans with the opinions. I say this as someone who worked at iRobot in defense before my time in YC, Facebook, Dropbox, and Lyft. Each had lots of people comfortable assuming others will think about and solve the ***** problems.

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  davidsong (@bitplane) reported 45 minutes ago

  Has @Dropbox been breached again? I just got this but it can't be me. At least I hope not. I have a randomly generated, unique password that's made in an offline password manager, I used it once on this machine when I first set it up. If I'm getting hacked the rest of you are in serious trouble.

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  RVCrypto (@RvCrypto) reported 50 minutes ago

  Every once in a while I have one of those moments as an investor where everything just clicks. I had that moment a couple of weeks ago with Leadpoet, $TAO subnet 71. What initially caught my attention was the team. To me, they represent what a Bittensor-first team should look like. They're deeply committed to the ecosystem, they execute quickly, and, most importantly, they seem to understand that in the end none of that matters if you don't build a product customers actually want. The product appears to be working really well. Winning the OKX product competition and attracting an inbound pilot with Dropbox are the latest two independent signals that suggest they're solving a real problem for enterprise sales teams. The opportunity they're pursuing is also enormous. Enterprise sales is a market worth billions, and if Leadpoet continues executing the way it has so far, I genuinely believe they have a realistic path to building an eight-figure revenue business next year. And the best part here is that all of that value ultimately flows back into the token. I've also spent quite a bit of time talking with Gavin over the past few weeks and months. Those conversations gave me a very similar feeling about Leadpoet to the one I had with Score when talking with Max. I don't make that comparison lightly. It's great to see Leadpoet finally getting the attention it deserves, and the recent price action reflects that. Although, if I'm being completely honest, I would have loved one more dip to accumulate a bigger position, and I know I'm not the only one thinking that.

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  M.Ellis (@MEllisPhotograp) reported 52 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport I think bulk of problem is on computer / desk top yes... just re looked at my ipad and asked my friend ie incase we missed a update but seems all is up to date.. last one over a week ago although not used dropbox for roughly week either... I will try 4g hot spot before i sleep.

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  Tibor Hudik (@htunlogic) reported 53 minutes ago

  @theonejvo Wispr is a rounding error. Drive, Dropbox, iCloud all sell "encrypted" while they hold the key. Then you paste the pile into Grok so the agent can just handle it. You did not get compromised. You volunteered. That is not E2EE. That is a slogan you paid for.

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  Lowkea (@lowkea713) reported 54 minutes ago

  Dropbox if you could please fix your self I have an uncomfortable amount of music in your app and now I can’t log in

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  Craig O'Shea (@craig_os) reported 54 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport major issue with your services right now.

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  M.Ellis (@MEllisPhotograp) reported 55 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport any know issues with desktop and web site of yours lately ? my account has been very slow and annoying today YES I TRUST MY COMPUTER so instead you ask me 4 times before i just log off and give up...

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  Helix (@helixcanvas) reported 56 minutes ago

  Two companies, two correct instincts, and about a billion dollars between the outcomes. In 2007 Dropbox had a problem: the product needed deep operating system integration, so there was no way to demo it without building it first. Drew Houston made a three minute video instead, showing how it would work if it existed, and put it in front of the community most likely to care. The beta waiting list went from five thousand to seventy-five thousand overnight. He knew the demand was real before he wrote the difficult part. Webvan believed something just as sensible. People want groceries delivered. And they were right, which is the part everyone forgets. Instacart and every supermarket delivery service proved it a decade later. But instead of testing it in one city, Webvan committed close to a billion dollars to automated warehouses across multiple markets before knowing whether the economics worked anywhere. It filed for bankruptcy in 2001. Build, measure, learn is three steps. Most of us run the first one over and over and mistake the motion for progress. Shipping is not learning.

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  Agbaje Automation. (@digital_ab98389) reported 58 minutes ago

  Cut manual data entry time by 80% with one n8n workflow: trigger on new CSV in Dropbox, parse, map to Google Sheets, flag errors, alert Slack, log runs. Automate, reduce errors, save hours. DM me for demo.

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  OneToothTeXan (@OneToothTeXan) reported 59 minutes ago

  I'm so sorry I left my zipper down and my sanity got loose. If found: Men, there's a dropbox. Women: please return to original source.

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  Scarlett Bama 🇺🇸🅰️🐘🏈🏖️✝️ (@scarlettbama) reported 60 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport Fri AM: Dropbox down? Rare if so! Will not allow PDF upload to existing folder. Upload 50x per month. Started after most recent IOS update. Using iPhone. No MacBook access right now. Pls don't sent to Community Forum.