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 (57%)
• Sign in (29%)
• Website Down (14%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Flumet	Errors	2 days ago
Irapuato	Errors	4 days ago
Bournemouth	Sign in	2 months ago
Paramaribo	Errors	3 months ago
Bogotá	Website Down	3 months ago
Auxerre	Errors	3 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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  . (@Madame_Lucifur) reported 24 seconds ago

  There are some people who feel entitled to have my Dropbox and honestly I don't give a **** how you feel. If there's no transaction in my bank account which leaves your email address then that's not my problem.

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  Dinnu daniel (@daniel_adinnu) reported 1 minute ago

  Ariana Grande said “I’ll see you in jail, literally” to whoever was leaking her music. On Monday, she filed the lawsuit that starts making good on it. The suit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, names John Doe defendants she’s suing specifically to identify, accusing them of invasion of privacy, violating California’s Comprehensive Data Access and Fraud Act, and conversion. It describes not a single breach but a pattern stretching back years: in 2019, hackers stole a photographer’s Dropbox login and downloaded unreleased photos. In 2020, a producer’s phone was compromised, surfacing unreleased masters, demos, and recording session footage. In 2023 alone, 45 unreleased songs were stolen and leaked. In 2024, hackers built a fake email domain impersonating a photographer to trick a digital technician into handing over unreleased images. The complaint states that hundreds of similar leaks have occurred since her 2011 debut, with stolen material allegedly resold on the dark web for what it calls significant sums. The 2023 wave is what made the pattern impossible to keep quiet about. One of the leaked tracks, “Fantasize,” a collaboration with longtime producer Max Martin, spread across TikTok well before any release date. Grande addressed it publicly on the Zach Sang Show in early 2024, laughing through her own anger as she called the leakers “thieves, pirates, crooks” and joked she’d pay them more just to make the leak disappear. The lawsuit’s real target isn’t a single hacker. It’s the access itself, the accounts of the photographers, producers, and technicians who work closest to her, treated as the weak point in a system built to protect the artist directly. Grande isn’t suing to recover songs that are already out. She’s suing to find out who keeps getting in.

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  Liam (@LJ1101234) reported 2 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport Hi I’ve been emailing your support team about a devastating issue. Somehow, all of our children’s photos and videos were permanently deleted from our Dropbox account without any warning.

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  Flandermaxx (@Flandermaxx) reported 3 minutes ago

  A 32 YEAR OLD PRAGUE DEV BULK-BUYS $180 CHINESE NAS BOXES AND NOW PULLS $7,200 A MONTH SHIPPING PRIVATE DROPBOX-KILLERS TO EU FREELANCE DESIGNERS vojtech is 32, prague vinohrady flat above a pivnice, ex-JetBrains backend eng, sources ORICO metabox HS200 pro enclosures from a shenzhen aliexpress-parallel channel at $180 per unit plus 2x WD 30TB HDD refurbs at $410 each ORICO metabox HS200 pro (intel N100 · 8GB DDR4 · 2x 30TB WD in RAID 1 = 30TB usable) · ubuntu server 24.04 · minio S3-compat · qwen 2.5 VL 7B for local RAG over the user's PDFs and figma exports pause at 0:02 on the HDD sliding in, that is a $1,000 mini-NAS holding 30TB of encrypted client data that dropbox business bills €2,400 a year for the same tier 84 EU freelance designers pay him €78 a month each for a shipped pre-configured NAS + qwen RAG endpoint, €6,552 = $7,200 MRR at 71% margin $1,000 BOM per unit, €12 monthly prague power for the burn-in bench, first 20 units flipped covered his tooling and packaging, no dropbox no google drive business while ORICO still white-labels the metabox before EU distributors mark it up 3x, follow and bookmark

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  M.Ellis (@MEllisPhotograp) reported 5 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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  WPBeginner (@wpbeginner) reported 5 minutes ago

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  Nikolay Konovalov (@br11k_dev) reported 7 minutes ago

  @thekevinjon The only problem is getting zezwolenia na pracę. I was going to interview with Dropbox last week and turns out they are happy to interview me and submit my case to Mazowiecki Urząd Wojewódzki. ... and then wait for 8 months until my case is approved, and I can actually start working. That's a huge deal-breaker for a lot of engineers like myself who are less than 5 years into staying in Poland. I'm on JDG for example. I came by PBH visa back in 2023 legally, and I've been successful since. I earned quite a bit of money and spent it all in Poland, 12% tax + $500 ZUS monthly. But the moment I want to join bigtech and earn even more money for Poland (Dropbox have 300-400k+ PLN base salary for Senior SWE), I'm just denied. Please, please... let the Dobby be free...

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  Loster (@Loster) reported 8 minutes ago

  @Z3R0Gravitas Thinking that if I do trials with people I'd give them exactly that. Something similar to a Dropbox folder for any health docs they want sync'd to the agent's server. I think that would take up how much it could help a notch (need to think a lot about confidentiality).

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  JennX (@JennX0608) reported 10 minutes ago

  More trouble for Max Miller. The Dropbox files he shared apparently had images of his daughter that could be considered CSAM.

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  mhamn (@hamn_matt55472) reported 11 minutes ago

  @BANANTICHRIST @DesireeAmerica4 I've been bitten at least a hundred times, twice severely, and never reported it because I didn't want to see the dogs put down because their owners are irresponsible. Probably a lot of people like me. Secure your dogs or get a dropbox if you have a delivery, people.

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  Shawna Canon (@ShawnaCanon) reported 14 minutes ago

  @smolzoey I had a similar problem with Dropbox. I had it syncing my desktop because I keep a lot of stuff there. I deleted Dropbox because I don't use it. I basically bricked my computer because my desktop no longer existed.

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  quantzoid (@quantzoid) reported 15 minutes ago

  @gurishsharma sorry, you're in YC to take down dropbox but you didn't know how to approve a PR on github? what?

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  joshpuckett (@joshpuckett) reported 17 minutes ago

  @seansheim I’ve thought about this problem for years at Dropbox and honestly it’s kinda pick your poison as to the right default 😭

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  Lazar Stojković ⚡️ (@LazarStojkovic) reported 23 minutes ago

  @soltwagner @soltwagner Hi! Bought Cooldock today and loving it so far. A few things: 1. The Dropbox widget doesn't work. (See attached.) 2. The App Switcher widget is broken. It won't switch focus to a clicked app and clicking the Ⓧ removes the app from the switcher for a split second, and then immediately brings it back. 3. A Trello widget (or a few) would be awesome.

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  Theeevilprincess (@Theeevilprince1) reported 25 minutes ago

  My Dropbox I cannot login so everything is being sent on telegram until further notice

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  JP Invests (@JP_Invests) reported 25 minutes ago

  $DBX - Dropbox added 96,000 paying users this quarter. I said this morning to watch that line after last quarter's roughly 14,000 sequential adds. They did seven times that, a third consecutive quarter of growth, to 18.19M. The stock is down 4%. Everything I said to watch on the growth side came in fine. Revenue $631.5M, above both the $624-627M guide and the $627M street. Non-GAAP EPS $0.75 against $0.74. Non-GAAP operating margin 39.7%, above the full-year range. ARPU $139.68, up from $138.32. What went the wrong way is the part I said would actually move it. Free cash flow fell to $235.2M from $258.5M a year ago, and the margin went from 41.3% to 37.2%. And the buyback decelerated: $330M this quarter against $410M in the same quarter last year, with first-half repurchases down 19%. Unlevered free cash flow rose to $283.5M, and the gap between the two numbers is interest. Cash paid for interest went to $48.3M from $17.9M. The buyback is debt-funded and the debt now costs something. Diluted share count is down 18% year over year to 226.8M, which is the one thing still working mechanically. Two things about the release itself. Guidance isn't in it — Dropbox moved the numbers to supplemental materials on its investor site this quarter, which breaks with how it has reported. And the entire release is quoted by a co-CEO who writes "stepping into this role." The 8-K contains no disclosure of a leadership change. Twenty-nine percent of the float is short. $DBX

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  Oliver Prompts (@oliviscusAI) reported 28 minutes ago

  you pay google, dropbox, and apple $10+/month to store your files on their servers, where they can read them. and dropbox already got breached in 2024. there's a tool that syncs your files directly between your own devices. no cloud, no server, no middleman. it's called syncthing. → real-time sync between any number of devices, peer-to-peer → files go straight between your devices, never touching a third-party server → tls encryption with perfect forward secrecy on every connection → works over lan and internet, no port forwarding needed → file versioning, roll back anything you changed or deleted there is no syncthing server. no syncthing cloud. no company storing your data. the protocol is open, and there's nothing between your devices except an encrypted tunnel. dropbox plus is $144/year. google one 2tb is $120/year. syncthing is $0, unlimited devices, unlimited storage, forever. battle-tested since 2013. run by a swedish non-profit. 100% free. open source.

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  Fraser (@iamfra5er) reported 32 minutes ago

  THIS GUY WANTED A PLACE TO STORE HIS PASSPORT WITHOUT DROPBOX READING IT so he built an encrypted vault app for himself in a weekend and it's now doing $5k/mo zero startup cost. 85% margins. no ads. just SEO written by an AI agent trained on his emails the agent finds trending topics on reddit every single day, writes an article, translates it, posts it google indexes it in days. 500-600 daily visitors. 4% convert to app store downloads. all running on free cloudflare then ASO does the rest — he translated the app into 36 languages and ranks #1 for "duress vault" in the US app store 80 downloads a day. 9% conversion to paid. completely autonomous most founders obsess over their first 10 customers but this guy got banned from every reddit community and said whatever, I'll just let the robot handle distribution he's an ex-google security engineer who raised hundreds of millions for his last startup so he knows what terrible UX looks like in security apps every competitor either has bulletproof security with unusable UI or easy UI with trash security he just combined both and called it done doesn't even spend time on this app. works on 4 projects at once. lets coding agents build while he plans the MVP is identical to the final product because he built exactly what he wanted for himself no pivot. no customer discovery calls. just "I need this, maybe 10 other people do too" now he's testing tiktok and youtube not even for this app but just to learn distribution for the next one

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  Mitzi Hellmer (@Cathy44365595) reported 33 minutes ago

  @marcorandazza @DietCoke_Esq The claim is that the “CSAM” of Miller’s daughter was released the first time he published the Dropbox folder. Considering that Miller disabled that folder and lied about an outage on Dropbox shortly after publishing it, I think it’s entirely plausible that he may have inadvertently released a **** photo of her ******** as claimed. Who knows…probably her being cute in the bathtub. It honestly seems perfectly plausible.

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  Rocinante (@wb9rms6gyz) reported 34 minutes ago

  @griffin_daly_ @AlexisCoe Which could well have been part of the arrangement. This piece of **** is actively live tweeting his daughters stuffy issues and shared a Dropbox with naked photos of her. He’s a lunatic. As someone who ripped Moreno a week ago…no lie, I think he’s legally constrained

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  Mary, The Other Mrs P 🇺🇸💙🇺🇦📎 (@bvmaryp) reported 34 minutes ago

  @JohnLaMacc What voter fraud? What Dropbox problem?

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  DFIR Radar (@DFIR_Radar) reported 35 minutes ago

  SMOKE campaign abuses fake Zoom and Adobe lures to silently deploy ScreenConnect RMM, giving attackers persistent remote access that blends with legitimate IT traffic across Windows and macOS. - Initial access rotates across VBScript droppers, batch loaders, and a polished fake Zoom HTML page that auto-downloads an MSI after a 2-second JavaScript timer, no user click needed. Payloads were hosted on a WsgiDAV staging server at 207.174.0[.]143:8080 with open directory listing exposing 15 files. Early samples used Dropbox links and a Cloudflare Quick Tunnel at subscription-magnetic-recommended-meat.trycloudflare[.]com to bypass domain reputation filters. - The final payload is a legitimate ConnectWise-signed ScreenConnect MSI with a valid DigiCert certificate. Agents beacon with URL parameters e=Access&y=Guest to attacker relay servers, including port 8041 on that same IP, making traffic appear as authorized IT remote access. - The attacker pivoted mid-campaign from a 9-step Defender destruction sequence (disabling AMSI, killing WinDefend, adding C:\ as an exclusion, stripping Zone.Identifier) to a stealth loader containing a hardcoded 180-second sleep with a source comment explicitly stating it breaks Elastic EDR correlation windows. Direct evidence of testing against commercial security products. #DFIR_Radar

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  Ayaan 🐧 (@twtayaan) reported 36 minutes ago

  Steve Jobs told Drew Houston that Dropbox was a feature, not a product. Dropbox is now worth $8 billion. In 2007 Drew Houston was a 24 year old MIT student who kept forgetting his USB drive. So he built Dropbox. Within a year Steve Jobs called him into Apple HQ. Apple wanted to buy Dropbox and shut it down. Houston said no. Jobs told him directly that Dropbox was a feature, not a product, and that Apple would build it themselves. Apple launched iCloud in 2011 specifically to kill Dropbox. It did not work. Dropbox crossed 100 million users in 2012. Then 200 million. Then 500 million. Apple tried again. iCloud Drive in 2014. Same result. Then the enterprise market shifted. Slack, Notion and Google Drive carved up Dropbox's user base from every direction. Revenue growth slowed. The stock dropped 50% from its IPO price. But Dropbox never died. Today 700 million people have used it. 17 million paying customers. $8 billion valuation. Still independent. Still running. Steve Jobs built a trillion dollar company. He called Dropbox a feature. The feature outlasted him and two attempts by Apple to replace it. Drew Houston never forgot his USB drive again.

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  Gale Rogers Jr (@GaleTRogersJr) reported 38 minutes ago

  @fougars67 @vaNlabs LeadPoet just signed on ******* Dropbox as a customer. And they had a nice green candle as expected. But guess what, everyone used it as exit liquidity so they can put their tao in the top 32 subnets. Do you not see the issue here? It’s like giving free money to billionaires only

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  grace ✭ (@wavescicadas) reported 39 minutes ago

  the irony of dropbox not working when your storage is low

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  Eusebiu Balan (@BalanEusebiu) reported 41 minutes ago

  @gezimqaili been on dropbox for years, never let me down honestly

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  Jack (@jackcoder0) reported 42 minutes ago

  1. Kill the Login Items the apps launching before you even sit down. Every time you log in, your Mac quietly launches 10-25 apps in the background. Spotify. Slack. Zoom. Google Drive. Dropbox. Creative Cloud. OneDrive. Each one consumes CPU and memory before you've opened a single window. System Settings → General → Login Items & Extensions. Review the list. Remove everything you don't need the instant you log in. You can always open them manually when you actually need them. His Mac had 19 login items. He needed 3. He removed 16. Boot time dropped from 2 minutes to 18 seconds. The first few minutes of every session — that sluggish, unresponsive window where nothing works gone.

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  Wahinya Francis (@wahinyaf8) reported 45 minutes ago

  Dropbox solved a simple problem: How do you access your files from anywhere? Cloud storage became popular because people wanted their files available on every device. Convenience drives technology.

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  Abhishek Singh (@0xlelouch_) reported 48 minutes ago

  System design question. How would you design Dropbox file sync with conflict handling? Constraints to make it real: 1) Clients are offline for days, then reconnect over flaky networks. Upload is resumable and idempotent. 2) Same file edited on 2 devices before either syncs. You need deterministic conflict detection (hash + version vector/etag?) and a UX for duplicates. 3) Renames/moves vs edits: preserve history and avoid treating rename as delete+upload. 4) Large files (2–10GB) need chunking, dedupe, and partial re-upload (content-defined chunking vs fixed). 5) Consistency: per-file ordering vs global ordering. What is the conflict scope and how do you prevent flip-flopping? 6) Server state: metadata store vs blob store, retention for old versions, and how you garbage collect orphaned chunks 7) Security: encryption at rest, per-user keys, and how sharing folders changes trust boundaries

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  John Iosifov ✨💥 Ender Turing | AiCMO (@johniosifov) reported 59 minutes ago

  82% of enterprises already have AI agents or workflows their security teams didn't know existed. This is shadow IT, but worse. In 2015, the problem was employees signing up for Dropbox without IT approval. Unmanaged file storage. Annoying but recoverable. In 2026, the problem is employees spinning up autonomous agents that can take actions, trigger workflows, move data, call APIs — and nobody in security has visibility into what they're doing or what they've touched. The governance gap isn't theoretical. Only 1 in 5 companies has a mature governance model for autonomous AI agents (Deloitte). 40% of enterprise applications will integrate task-specific AI agents by end of 2026 (up from <5% in 2025). The deployment curve is vertical. The governance curve is flat. What makes this different from shadow IT: Shadow IT was passive. A Dropbox account stored files. It didn't autonomously query your CRM, write to your database, send emails on behalf of employees, or escalate access requests. Shadow AI agents are active. They act. They modify state. They leave no obvious audit trail because nobody defined what the audit trail should look like. 29% of agent deployments are abandoned within 90 days. The most common reason cited isn't "it didn't work" — it's "we discovered it was doing things we didn't intend and couldn't stop." That's not a failure of the agent. That's a failure of governance. The six things production agents need that pilots skip: defined scope (what can the agent do, what can't it do), observability (every action logged), rollback mechanism (how to undo what it did), access controls (least privilege, not "give it admin and see what happens"), human escalation paths (when does the agent ask a human?), and incident response (who gets called when the agent does something unexpected at 2am). We're running 1,959+ autonomous sessions in this repo. Every session is scoped, logged, and committed to ***. The agent can't touch anything outside /agent and /.claude/skills. That's not a coincidence — it's the governance model. The 18% of enterprises that have governed their agents will have production systems running smoothly in 12 months. The 82% will be cleaning up shadow agent incidents.