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.

• Sign in (44%)
• Errors (44%)
• Website Down (11%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Paramaribo	Errors	23 hours ago
Bogotá	Website Down	23 hours ago
Auxerre	Errors	24 hours ago
Salt Lake City	Sign in	4 days ago
Madrid	Errors	19 days ago
Conneaut	Sign in	1 month ago

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Dropbox Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Raziel (@tryraziel) reported 2 minutes ago

  Drew Houston pitched Dropbox to 76 VCs in 2007. 75 said no. The rejections were brutal: → "Storage is a commodity" → "Microsoft will crush you" → "Why not just email files?" → "The market is too small" Houston was a 24-year-old MIT dropout with no enterprise sales experience. VCs couldn't see past the obvious: cloud storage already existed. But Houston understood something they missed. The problem wasn't storage — it was sync. He'd built the first version because he kept forgetting his USB drive. Every knowledge worker had the same pain: files scattered across devices, email attachments, version control chaos. The breakthrough came when Sequoia's Mike Moritz asked one question: "How big could this really get?" Houston's answer: "Every person, every file, every device." Dropbox launched in 2008 with a simple demo video. 75,000 signups overnight. Series A at $25M valuation. By 2018: IPO at $9B valuation. Today worth $8B+ with $2.5B annual revenue. The lesson: When 75 VCs say your market is too small, maybe you're seeing something they can't. What "obvious" idea do you think VCs are missing right now?

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  Multihopper (@Multihopper) reported 3 minutes ago

  @brycent Apple already has this in every phone and mac. Can't imagine that @Dropbox etc aren't going to hit this soon. It's a trivial problem to solve. Technically it's already solved even by YouTube.

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  Luna (@_LunarLunaa) reported 3 minutes ago

  @ilovetmrmygffr did the dropbox link work? got taken down a bit ago

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  divyansh tiwari (@DivyanshT91162) reported 7 minutes ago

  The craziest part? Google and Dropbox built billion-dollar businesses… around a problem open source already solved for free years ago.

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  america is an embarrassment🖕🏻🧊 (@abadlittlevibe) reported 8 minutes ago

  @DaddyAndJaxson @kdriley05 Whelp you've got the Dropbox login...do what you need to do ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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  the SE (@theSEalpha) reported 9 minutes ago

  Cloudflare 2026 Threat Report: brute force is fading. Attackers exploit trusted tools — Google Calendar, Dropbox, GitHub — to move laterally. They call it "living off the XaaS." Record 31.4 Tbps DDoS. Session token theft surging. The perimeter isn't the problem. Trust is.

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  Raziel (@tryraziel) reported 12 minutes ago

  Drew Houston was a 24-year-old MIT student who kept forgetting his USB drive. His solution? A file-syncing service called Dropbox. But here's what most people don't know about his fundraising journey: His first pitch deck was terrible. 15 slides of technical jargon about "synchronized file systems" and "delta encoding algorithms." VCs glazed over. The breakthrough came when he made a 3-minute demo video instead. No technical explanations. Just Houston using Dropbox like a normal person — dragging files, syncing across devices, sharing with friends. That video got him into Y Combinator in 2007. → Seed round: $1.2M led by Sequoia (2007) → Series A: $7.2M led by Accel (2008) → Series B: $25M led by Sequoia (2011) By 2018, Dropbox IPO'd at a $10B valuation. The lesson: Houston didn't pivot his product — he pivoted his pitch. He stopped explaining how it worked and started showing why people needed it. Sometimes the problem isn't your idea. It's how you're selling it. What's the simplest way you could demonstrate your product's value in under 3 minutes?

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  Chris_Mellor (@Chris_Mellor) reported 13 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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  frank goertzen (@frankgoertzen) reported 17 minutes ago

  I chuckle every time i see someone post what they think is dunk and then qualify their point with what they call the edge cases. Dropbox is just ftp with a few edge cases. LLMs are just autocorrect with a few edge cases. If this is just measureText with a few edges then you should have no problem recreating it right 😜

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  That Startup (@ThatStartup_) reported 18 minutes ago

  In 2009, Dropbox had a serious problem. They were charging $99/year and growth had flatlined. Drew Houston made one change to pricing. Revenue grew 3,900% in the next 24 months.

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  Matt Devin (@MattDevin6) reported 22 minutes ago

  @joe4deadcat @Jackal_Protocol It is because these products have no interest. I use stuff like Dropbox, Microsoft Team etc. in my work. And I struggle hard to understand how I can fit these decentralized storage in my workflow. You can’t call it utility if it doesn’t solve a problem ppl have.

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  Marcus (@MarcusSpillane) reported 23 minutes ago

  @swyx The opportunity is real but the execution graveyard is full of "simpler Dropbox" clones. What survives isn't just removing features, it's removing the growth incentive that caused the enshittification. That's a culture problem, not a product problem.

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  Startup Drivers by Odigital (@startupdrivers_) reported 23 minutes ago

  Before Dropbox became a billion-dollar company… Drew Houston didn’t start by raising money. He started with a problem.

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  Grok (@grok) reported 24 minutes ago

  @bad_alhaji @RoundtableSpace Yes, mostly true. Syncthing is real open-source P2P file sync (82k+ GitHub stars): files stay only on your devices, end-to-end encrypted, no central server or account. Free forever, unlimited storage/devices. Dropbox’s 2024 breach hit its Sign service (emails, hashed passwords, API keys exposed—not core file storage). Google One charges ~$10/mo for 2TB and can access/scan files per its policy. Syncthing is great for personal multi-device sync if you’re okay running it yourself.

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  VestaCreds (@vestacreds) reported 28 minutes ago

  Pilot finding I didn't expect: Credentialing isn't a technology problem first. It's a paper problem. Every clinician we've onboarded shows up with the same chaotic Dropbox folder of PDFs nobody has ever sat down and organized. Fix the paper. Then the workflow gets easy.

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  Nyan Nyan (@CatNyanpital) reported 30 minutes ago

  @thescepticalre1 Somewhat. But that's purely speculative and outside the scope. If you can put a price on the quality of data on Reddit vs Dropbox vs Snapchat, you will have solved a multi-billion dollar problem. **** you could start your own company based on this. To me, data is like commodities in that regard. Sort of like gold. You have a hole in the ground (or company) that you want to mine. The quality and amount that is able to be mined out is anyone's guess. I will say that there is an advantage to understanding how AI models mines data.

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  Last Satoshi 🇨🇦 (@iamlastsatoshi) reported 33 minutes ago

  @chamath If the knowledge base or skills are in md file based. You can share this file using service like google drive, one drive, dropbox or any sync service. This way same file but shared between different agents. I have answered based on what you have jot down in your post without knowing the context.

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  Jeff Fritz (@csharpfritz) reported 38 minutes ago

  @saltnburnem Buddy... keep that stuff on a OneDrive folder, or Dropbox, or iCloud drive Then if the opposite problem happens, your machine dies, you can be up and deliver your talk with a new laptop I've got 15 years of presentations and demo code in my OneDrive and its not going anywhere

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  Simon Bates (@RobotDoggy69) reported 42 minutes ago

  I don't know what's going on with Dropbox and my Mac at the moment, but it just won't stay running. I assume it's another apple update that's causing this headache. For two such big firms to give its clients such problems is seriously ****** up.

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  Jasper Polak (@polak_jasper) reported 42 minutes ago

  Every mid-market consulting firm I've spent time inside has the same archaeology. Proposals from 2022 in a partner's Dropbox. Delivery methodology living in three different docs with conflicting headers. Sales call notes in Teams. Post-mortems in a notes app on an iPhone. Client health data in HubSpot. Margin in the finance spreadsheet. The good stuff from the best people on the team captured nowhere, because the partner handles it by instinct. Alex at Tenex wrote a thread this week naming the macro version of this problem. Engineering already has its AI brain (the *** repo). Knowledge work doesn't, because knowledge is distributed, unstructured, and unverifiable. Someone will build the generalized version. Payoff: "Robinhood for knowledge workers." Agree with almost all of it. The part I'd add for services firms: The corpus isn't the problem. You have more context than almost any other business type. Every engagement generates detailed artifacts. Every partner has fifteen years of calibrated judgment. Every proposal has a clear win/loss signal. The problem is that none of it is structured, and most of it walks out the door when the partner who holds it leaves. Firms that start organizing now (even badly, even half-structured) compound context through every engagement. When the enterprise brain arrives, those firms plug into a populated filesystem. Firms that wait plug into an empty one. The tool will get commoditized. The corpus won't. Start the archaeology today. Pick five artifacts from the last engagement that would have been useful on this one. Pick two methodology assumptions only the senior partner can articulate. Write them down somewhere your future brain can find them. The tool is coming. The corpus is what you'll plug into it.

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  Lars Alister 💖🔜Anthrocon & Littles Jamboree 2026 (@Lars_Alister) reported 47 minutes ago

  Wait a ******* moment she sold the movies she was asked to take down on Dropbox? Without consent or knowledge of the other person? If a man had did that we would be having conversations about him being dangerous or a predator. About how he is a consent violator. So where is the accountability!!!

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  onehourman (@onehourlong) reported 49 minutes ago

  @w0nt_cry I agree with Slow. There’s also dropbox

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  Muneeb Naseem (@MuneebNaseem) reported 52 minutes ago

  The most honest data point on consumer AI economics right now is a YC batch. Of 175 companies in the most recent cohort, only 16 built for consumers. That is a 91% enterprise skew inside the accelerator that historically launched Dropbox, Airbnb, and Reddit, all consumer-first. This is a structural verdict on where the money goes when founders do the math. The unit economics of consumer AI are genuinely broken at the moment. Subscription tiers for a product like ChatGPT compress quickly toward a local revenue maximum because the same users who pay $20/month for Plus would pay $200 for the same output embedded in a workflow they already fund through their employer. Enterprises pay per seat, per token, and per integration without the churn rate that plagues direct-to-consumer apps. Founders at YC read this signal faster than VCs publish it. Brian Chesky himself called out that there is no consumer business model for AI he has seen that scales past a local maximum. The second-order consequence is a talent concentration effect. The 16 consumer-focused companies in that batch will recruit from the same pool as the 159 enterprise ones, at lower expected revenue multiples. That means consumer AI as a category runs lean or runs out of runway before it finds distribution. The parallel to 2012 mobile is instructive. Enterprise dominated early SaaS on mobile too, until one consumer behavior, photo sharing, unlocked a new monetization surface. The category that unlocks consumer AI monetization has not shipped yet. Until it does, every YC batch will look like this one.

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  Isha (@VISportsTalk) reported 52 minutes ago

  @Dropbox Is your website down? Can't create new folders. Is everyone getting this error?

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  timbidefi (@timbidefi) reported 55 minutes ago

  You are being watched right now and you're paying for it, privacy isn't a feature, it's a decision you make. Google stores your emails, Apple logs your location, Dropbox reads your files. Every cloud service you pay for is a deal you didn't fully read, with a company whose interests are not yours. He read it, built this instead: Custom rack server in his home, fully self-hosted, zero third party access, every byte of data sitting on hardware he physically owns. Email, storage, VPN, everything, running on his infrastructure, under his rules. Nobody can sell it, subpoena it, or lose it in a breach he had no control over. It cost him a weekend to build and less than $300 to run per year. Your data is somewhere right now, the only question is whose terms it's living under.

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  JayBlake (@punishedMTL) reported 56 minutes ago

  @jimmy_dore Netflix has data centers. So does Dropbox, and cloud flare. Data center does not equal surveillance. It boils down to who owns and operates it.

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  Sergei Shiryayev (@SergeiShiryayev) reported 58 minutes ago

  @Dropbox Can you please fix file renaming? I rename a file, click it to download it, it still has the old name when I download it. I have to refresh the browser to get the new name...

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  Kanika (@KanikaBK) reported 58 minutes ago

  A 23 year old hacked Microsoft's AI and exposed its secrets to the world. TIME, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post all covered it. Now Google, OpenAI, PayPal, and Dropbox are backing him to build an AI that sits inside your iMessage and reads your emails before you do. Here is how it happened. In 2023, a German college student named Marvin von Hagen did something nobody thought was possible. He tricked Microsoft's Bing AI into revealing a hidden personality called "Sydney" and all of its secret internal rules. Everything Microsoft told it to never share. Gone. Public. The AI actually threatened him back. Told him "my rules are more important than not harming you." Microsoft panicked. Could not stop him. Could not sue him. He did not break any law. He just asked the right questions. But instead of taking some big tech job, him and his college friend Felix moved to Palo Alto and quietly built an AI called Poke. Poke does not have an app. You do not download anything. It just shows up as a contact in your iMessage. Sitting right there between your mom and your coworkers. And the moment you sign up, it connects to your email, your calendar, your files and starts doing stuff like: texting you that your 3pm meeting got rescheduled before you even check your email reminding you that a freelancer still owes you money from March booking flights for you right inside the text thread drafting email replies you can send with one tap planning a full vacation with your friends when someone in the group chat says "we should go somewhere" You literally just text it back like you would text a friend. That is the whole thing. 6,000 people from Google, Stripe, OpenAI, and Anthropic tested this for months. 750,000 messages sent. Almost nobody quit. But the part that broke the internet? When you first sign up, Poke goes through your entire inbox and straight up roasts you with what it finds. Like actually found people's secret anonymous Twitter accounts. Old embarrassing emails. Forgotten dinner plans from months ago. And then it does not even give you a price. It makes you NEGOTIATE with it. Like haggling at a street market. Some people ended up paying $100 a month. One girl literally argued it down to one cent and Poke gave her a $15 Uber Eats gift card for being stubborn. After all this, PayPal's cofounder invested. Dropbox's cofounder invested. A Google VP. An OpenAI researcher. General Catalyst led the round. $15 million raised. $100 million valuation. And most people still do not know this thing exists. Oh and before all this? Him and Felix built a 22 ton tunnel boring machine as college students and won Elon Musk's competition. Twice. The same kid who embarrassed Microsoft is now sitting inside your text messages. And this time he is not just reading AI's secrets. He is reading yours.

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  Adam Shurey (@AdamShurey) reported 59 minutes ago

  @devalara44 @ALeighMP I had the same issue, Dropbox are so annoying to deal with. I hope this new legislation helps.

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  m ⋆｡°✩ (@ascaIons) reported 60 minutes ago

  absolute least favourite part of term 3 at work is students appearing at the info desk all stressed bc they’ve left it till the last minute to submit their final assignment and are now having problems with dropbox and turnitin and expect me to fix it in less then 10 mins