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 (50%)
• Sign in (38%)
• Website Down (13%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Bournemouth	Sign in	2 days ago
Paramaribo	Errors	29 days ago
Bogotá	Website Down	29 days ago
Auxerre	Errors	29 days ago
Salt Lake City	Sign in	1 month ago
Madrid	Errors	2 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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  Prajwal (@0xPrajwal_) reported 2 minutes ago

  The next time you say, "Python is too slow," remember: Netflix uses Python. Google uses Python. Anthropic uses Python. Meta uses Python. xAI uses Python. Perplexity uses Python. DeepSeek uses Python. Instagram uses Python. Spotify uses Python. Dropbox uses Python. Reddit uses Python. Pinterest uses Python. Uber uses Python. Airbnb uses Python. Quora uses Python. But yeah... it's apparently too slow for your todo app.

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  Chuck Thies (@ChuckThies) reported 3 minutes ago

  Apples to oranges. 2024 was not a mayoral election. The best comparison is 2022/2026. Last week, mail/dropbox performance was down about 15% as compared to the 2022 primary.

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  Bosn (@00bosn00) reported 5 minutes ago

  2026 and we’re out here building god-tier AI that can debate physics and write symphonies, but Grok still can’t watch a Dropbox, OneDrive, or Discord video link.“Sorry, I can’t watch videos from Dropbox, OneDrive, or most direct file links.”We’re doing all this magic with AI and the video player is stuck in 2015. Fix it, xAI.

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  Boris Gostroverhov (@gostroverhov) reported 6 minutes ago

  Let me add my own perspective: this reminds me of the Dropbox story. Before Dropbox, there were already dozens of similar solutions, but they didn’t solve the users’ problem completely or in the way users actually wanted.

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  Pelicart (@pelicartza) reported 6 minutes ago

  @lukey_stephens @_avdept real also - dropbox??? why would you pay $5 and not just set up an sftp server

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  Pradeep Kumar Xplorer (@ThaiKumar) reported 9 minutes ago

  Someone is regulating my upload to Dropbox 33 mb file suddenly the network is slow

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  TechSnif (@techsnif) reported 10 minutes ago

  Dropbox founder Drew Houston steps down as CEO after 19 years, replaced by SVP Ashraf Alkarmi

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  YC Insights. (@Aiagent_s) reported 11 minutes ago

  He spent two years looking for a bigger problem. Found it on a Chinatown bus in January 2007 when he reached into his bag and realized he'd forgotten his USB drive. Again. He opened his laptop and started coding what would become Dropbox.

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  Music, Film & RE Investments (@investandcreate) reported 16 minutes ago

  @0xajka @Dropbox Have you tried doing the whole uninstall, reinstall? I had to do that one time with Dropbox. It was horrible. Now I have even a worse problem - but it’s not exactly Dropbox’s fault.

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  Infuse (@infuse) reported 19 minutes ago

  @Zvomuya This may be a temporary issue with Dropbox. If it's still happening can you try restarting your device to see if this helps?

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  Chris_Mellor (@Chris_Mellor) reported 19 minutes ago

  All of a sudden, when trying to upload Voice Record 7 audio recording files from my iPhone to Dropbox I now have to login to Dropbox and get an emailed verification code .... WHY??? All the convenience has gone. It's enshittification.

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  Miranda Fernandez 📍ELP (@erotiqlibrarian) reported 19 minutes ago

  I re-uploaded videos to Dropbox. Everybody has 24 hours to download before I take them down to remedy Dropbox deleting them.

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  Elias Al (@iam_elias1) reported 23 minutes ago

  8/ The settings on your own devices that are silently eating bandwidth. Even with a great router, fast DNS, and honest ISP speeds, your devices may be consuming bandwidth you didn't authorize. Common culprits: On your phone: 1. iCloud/Google Photos backup set to sync constantly (not just on Wi-Fi) 2. App updates downloading in the background 3. "Wi-Fi Assist" on iPhone (silently switches to cellular and back, disrupting connections) On your laptop: 1. Cloud sync services (Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive) uploading constantly 2. Windows/macOS pushing system updates during peak hours 3. Browser tabs running in background consuming bandwidth with auto-refresh On your smart TV: 4. Firmware updates downloading during prime streaming time 5. Multiple streaming apps running in background 6. ACR (Automatic Content Recognition) sending screenshots to servers every 15-60 seconds On IoT devices: 1. Smart cameras uploading video 24/7 2. Smart speakers maintaining constant server connections 3. Smart home hubs polling every device every few seconds She audited every device on her network. Twelve devices were consuming bandwidth she didn't know about. Three of them were using more data than her actual streaming.

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  Logan Radcliff (@GTDCANI) reported 29 minutes ago

  Omg OneDrive is terrible! Do better @Microsoft ! Trying to download a folder with 1000 files. OD zips, downloads, says complete. I end up with 5% of my files. Never this issue with Google Drive or DropBox.

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  yera. (@1stplaceee__) reported 32 minutes ago

  You down for my nasty FaceTime and Dropbox video HMU📨📥💦🍑

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  Joo Tat (@heyyyjoo) reported 32 minutes ago

  @kozerafilip @joinsauna @newitemco Here’s my main first impression of Sauna: I don’t see a clear winning use case yet. At least from my perspective, Sauna currently feels like a broad AI layer on top of the apps you already use. It can suggest what to do, help find information, and has a multiplayer/collaboration angle around understanding what other people are doing. But I don’t yet see the specific use case where Sauna is clearly much better than existing alternatives. For an early product, I think it would be useful to have a sharper wedge: a specific group of people, in a specific situation, with a painful problem where existing solutions are poor, and where Sauna is obviously the better answer. Maybe that wedge already exists, but as an outsider looking at the website and demo, it is not immediately clear to me. This feels especially important because Sauna asks users to overcome a meaningful amount of friction and anxiety. To unlock the value, users may need to connect sensitive apps like email, Slack, and Notion. If the multiplayer value is important, they may also need to convince teammates to connect their own sensitive apps. That creates a big trust and coordination hurdle, so the value proposition needs to be extremely clear before people will make that jump. One analogy I think about is Notion. Notion is now a very broad horizontal product: people use it as a CRM, Jira alternative, team wiki, notes app, etc. But early on, I believe it had a much simpler starting point: document and knowledge organization. The product and communication was focused on a better way to store, structure, and share notes and docs compared to alternatives like Google Drive, Dropbox, or scattered documents. People could use it for their own notes and documents first. Then, when they eventually shared a page with colleagues, those colleagues could immediately see the value because the page was easy to navigate, clear, flexible, and beautiful. I wonder what the wedge could be for Sauna. I noticed that the Solutions page seems to heavily feature Sauna in Slack, as an assistant that has access to shared context. Is that something that has been resonating better with users? One possible wedge could be someone who is overwhelmed by Slack because they have too many messages and threads to respond to. They could drop their personal assistant into a channel to help reply on their behalf, using context shared with Sauna, and escalate when it is unable to answer confidently. That might also create an easier mental model around access: the personal assistant in Sauna has access to more private context, while the team-facing assistant in Slack has more limited, scoped access. From there, if colleagues see the assistant working and want their own, that could be a natural path into the multiplayer or “*** main branch” idea. Individual assistants could start to merge shared context and provide better help, suggestions, and coordination over time. I’m not sure if this is the right wedge. The answer may already be visible in the product’s usage patterns: who is sticky, what they are using Sauna for, and where they are getting repeated value. But I think the key question is: what is the specific initial use case where Sauna is not just useful, but dramatically better than the alternatives? Once that is clear, I think the product / website / demo should make that use case extremely obvious to the users who need it. (Btw I'm speaking with Ryan tmr regarding the PM role. Which was what led me to explore Sauna as part of my own research. Thought I might as well share my first impressions here)

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  Ral K' Thar (@RalKThar) reported 34 minutes ago

  There is an easy to fix things in the uploaded to Dropbox version that Grok garbled. It just makes it so any API key comes up as invalid.

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  Simple American News 🗞️ (@TSimpleAmerican) reported 34 minutes ago

  Dropbox CEO Drew Houston is stepping down after 19 years, with chief product officer Ashraf Alkarmi being promoted, per CNBC

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  HiPri$ (@PlayDaMac) reported 36 minutes ago

  Lil bit selling nudes Like 2015! 20$ PayPal for a Dropbox. Just login to Onlyfans

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  J. (@munchivelo) reported 37 minutes ago

  track back to just over a year to now. i'd built an automated ecommerce flow that took a whole store end to end. seo would research trends, products, and map those into .js scripts which would launch prompts that read those research files. that would feed an image gen prompt which created designs, set to specific standard. i'd generate them, and then ANOTHER prompt, would check the images, score them with a criteria, and either move them to an accepted folder, or move them to an archive folder. the accepted folders, would automatically fire a script which would open photoshop, map the image to smart layers, in a 'product shot' template i'd made, and then export all of the final product shots to another folder, and then exported the flat designs which would be used for the products. another script took the product images, did visual lookups, generated all product descriptions, renamed the images and generated the seo text. it ran optimizations locally via a jpegoptim and oxipng script. it then uploaded them to dropbox, and via API, would generate a dropbox link map. i had one barebones csv template, which i'd run a ps1 script through to map json files into the csv rows, and insert the dropbox link map. all my images, links, followed the exact same slugs, so it turned 2 hours of manual work into a 5 second bulk rename and insert. it then converted that csv into json, which then itself converted that json into ld-json for product rich listings. ai would write the product description based on a dataseo keywords, and googletrends json file that would run on every product type. collecting keywords for that specific product. it also formed it around brand profiles, copy guides and other things. this was sonnet 3 days, GPT 4.0 days, and it STILL wrote great copy when it had the right guidance. in the .js file, i'd replace all em dashes with a hyphen if they ever appeared. i built a custom product uploader, built my own php plugin which synced to local .js files and connected via rest. it was (and still is) one of the best wc product uploaders that exist, as it completely resets filterlookups only for that product, and is lightning fast because i upload it directly into the sql from json. no importers or WC rest needed. the images would be uploaded via ftp, and then on detection, would sync those to the media library. it took what would be 3 hours of manual work, and congested it into a 2 minute image, to fully live product. after that, i'd export sales data, the ai was constantly learning, sales data feeding back to files, which would then teach the ai what products work, what doesn't. what copy worked, what copy didn't. all of it was local on my pc. i wasn't selling an saas. it was just something that worked for my very particular setup. i built that mostly with GPT 4.0 and a little bit of 3.5. copy and pasting the chats from chatGPT. all the plugins, the php, everything. then some of it got improved inside vscode back on the old original copilot plans. this was before n8n, before agents were even a thing. all of that was built for me, local, syncing folder to folder, json file to json file. python scripts watching files, and .ps1 files that would follow up with other .ps1 files, which launched .js files which contained prompts for AI, and hitting the openAI API's whenever I needed the AI layer. eventually i built a terminal tool, which would allow me to run the scripts from the terminal, and i'd manually type in the slugs for which products i wanted processed. all files would sit in specific folders, and scripts would do the rest. i was so excited about that, giving my terminal app a shortcut icon and putting it onto my taskbar. that was a year ago. fast forward to now. the game has changed so much. ANYTHING and i mean anything is possible now. i've had this ******* idea for so long, to build a fully automated, self learning ecom business, that launches products end to end based on it's own research, writing, and growth, but the complexity of it previously , and being busy with life, it never got finalized. and i've finally been building the replacement for it, but it'll be able to do many other things. i'll be able to run that exact same system, except this time through a full app, with a canvas, and agent systems instead of .ps1 scripts. not to say i won't run scripts; they're an integral part of any automated workflow, but now it has superpowers. not only that, but i moved away from woocommerce entirely. instead i just built my own website builder, which is fully automated end to end. my brand profiles, my artwork system? i'm still using those, just for more things. now i can launch 50 brands just like it, running the same system, all in about 5 minutes. except this time, a year later, we have GPT 2.0, and seedance. which offer MUCH better usage for ecommerce than it was back 1 year ago. i also built an ad builder. it takes my brands images, or generates images. i've got background removed, and full skills and agents which practically generate the ads for me. it mixes all that into seedance videos, and posts in logos etc. now i take those image/videos, and build instagram, tiktok, facebook vids, generate descriptions, and upload them automatically. that's why it's so great building for yourself. the amount of reusability you get with it, the fact it's free forever, can never be beaten. i'm not selling anything yet. but if you're interested in seeing how i think about automation, then stay a while and listen. the tool i'm building will absolutely help you too. but i'll be honest. i'm actually quite scared to release it, solely down to how powerful it is. not many people do it like i do, and i'm finally on here to tell the world.

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  Adeyinka Prime™ (@adefilaadeyinka) reported 39 minutes ago

  @aarondfrancis @Shpigford Exactly - when sharing solves a problem for the person sharing, it doesn't feel like marketing. Dropbox nailed this because storing files alone was less useful than storing them with others. The product itself created the reason to invite.

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  🎀MONA MANIC🧸 (@mona_maniccc) reported 41 minutes ago

  My new Dropbox link is out 1 terabyte dm if you are down 💞

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  Washington Report (@Washington_Rep) reported 41 minutes ago

  @BusinessInsider 📌 Dropbox founder Drew Houston is transitioning out of the CEO role, with Ashraf Alkarmi stepping in as co‑CEO before becoming sole chief executive. Houston will shift into an executive chairman position after a transition period in which he and Alkarmi share the co‑CEO title. 🧭 Leadership Transition: - Drew Houston is stepping down after nearly two decades leading Dropbox, moving into an executive chairman role following a period as co‑CEO with Ashraf Alkarmi. - Alkarmi, previously Dropbox’s head of product and general manager of its core business, becomes co‑CEO effective immediately and will later assume the role of sole CEO. 🧩 Background on Ashraf Alkarmi: - Joined Dropbox in late 2024 after senior product roles at Vimeo, Amazon (including Amazon Freevee), and Meta. - Credited internally with making Dropbox more responsive to customers and pushing for bolder product innovation. - Will receive an annual salary of $825,000, a target bonus equal to base salary, and $12.65M in restricted stock units vesting over several years. 📉 Company Context: - Dropbox’s market cap is just over $6 billion, roughly half its value at IPO in 2018. - Competition from Google, Apple, and Microsoft has pressured its core storage business, with revenue growth slowing to under 1% year‑over‑year. - The company reported $629.5M in Q1 2026 revenue and more than 18 million paying users. 🚀 Houston’s Next Chapter: - Houston, now 43, says his next move will be entrepreneurial and AI‑focused, not retirement.

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  Harshita Renee (@harshitaxmars) reported 45 minutes ago

  Despite me having proven him wrong about the exact requirement table issue he pinned on me as a “it’s her problem, shut her up” (Dropbox has the scoresheet proving I was not out of line, they were), I don’t think he can ever be wrong. That is just technical error on his part.

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  AJ (@ce_aj100) reported 46 minutes ago

  @SsharmaKirti Maybe isse ek project bnalo... redundant file storage ( across various apps like dropbox, gdrive and local server ). And add video streaming capabilities based on the fastest avalable ( calculated dynamically ) service. I made this couple of years ago, but for different tasks

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  Glitch Truth (@glitchtruth) reported 47 minutes ago

  the bottleneck is OSC 52 only forwards text, not image bytes. workaround most people land on: screenshot to a synced folder (Dropbox/iCloud) and reference the path, or scp it over before pasting. iTerm2's imgcat works the other direction but not for input. real fix would need a custom escape sequence nobody's shipped yet.

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  Auritrack - AI-powered expense tracker (@auritrack) reported 47 minutes ago

  How $9.99 a month for “just one app” became the most profitable business model of the last decade. The math behind subscription creep Adobe had a very huge effect on Photoshop boxed sales in 2013, same software, now $20.99 a month forever. Revenue went from $4.4 billion to over $21 billion in ten years. The product didn’t change, the billing did. Companies Learned Something Brutal: - People fight a $200 charge - People ignore a $9.99 one So they sliced everything into $9.99s. Spotify, Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Max, Apple TV+, Peacock, Paramount+, Audible, Kindle Unlimited, NYT, WSJ, Substacks, Notion, Dropbox, iCloud, Google One. Add a gym membership and a meal kit and you’re at $400 a month before rent. The Trick: every individual service feels reasonable, the bundle feels invisible, banks don’t surface the total and apps don’t show what else you’re paying but you have to add it up yourself. Most people are off by 60% when asked to guess their monthly subscription spend. Banks reviewed this in 2024, off by $130 a month on average. The fix isn’t dramatic. Pull last month’s statement, highlight every recurring charge, cancel three. Most people save $80+ a month with that one exercise. Auritrack does this automatically, every recurring charge gets a tag, the forgotten ones get flagged. Follow for more money stories.

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  David Tereba (@dawedeveloper) reported 50 minutes ago

  @terryaidev @MihariOyama Your dropbox issue might be resolved, TesterBuddy is a platform where devs list their betas and chat with testers directly.

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  urBITCOIN (@BitcoinUr) reported 51 minutes ago

  No, no, no. You're thinking about it all wrong. A functioning file server would be a liability. If Urbit actually stored and served everyone's files reliably today, people would start using it for files. Then we'd have to make it fast. We'd have to make it redundant. We'd have to handle backups, syncing, corruption, support tickets. That's infrastructure. What we have is much more valuable. We have the *option* of being a file server. The vision of a file server. A file server-shaped hole in the future. Right now, every missing feature is proof of how early we are. Every failed upload is evidence of untapped potential. The fact that nobody can depend on it yet means the market is still entirely available. The moment it becomes a good file server, people stop asking how big it could be and start asking why it's slower than Dropbox. You don't want to be Dropbox. Dropbox has revenue. Revenue means expectations. Expectations mean accountability. Accountability kills narrative. We're building a decentralized, sovereign, peer-to-peer, identity-native, file-adjacent platform opportunity. The less it functions as a file server today, the more it can function as one tomorrow. It's a pure play.

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  𝓅𝓇𝒾𝓃𝒸ℯ𝓈𝓈 𝓵𝓾𝔁💗👑 (@payprncslux) reported 53 minutes ago

  got a new phone & laptop now I can’t login to my dropbox because I don’t have my old devices .. fml