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	10 days ago
Paramaribo	Errors	1 month ago
Bogotá	Website Down	1 month ago
Auxerre	Errors	1 month ago
Salt Lake City	Sign in	1 month ago
Madrid	Errors	2 months ago

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Dropbox Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Molly O’Shea (@MollySOShea) reported 4 minutes ago

  BREAKING: Merge Launches ‘Agent Handler’ Control AI Access, Tokenmaxxed $$$ Bills, & Stop Mass Data Leaks "We don't trust agents" "The second you connect it to tools, that's where everything goes wrong." OpenAI. Perplexity. Netflix. Uber. Mistral. Dropbox. JPMorgan.. all quietly run on @merge_api Co-Founders CEO @Shensi Ding & CTO @GilFeig dive into it all We cover: - MASSIVE AI Security scares are just starting - Tokenmaxxing bills - Agent Handler - Gateway routing - Winning enterprise logos - The SaaSpocalypse 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Shensi Ding & Gil Feig, Co-Founders at Merge (01:04) Three products. One big bet (03:20) How Merge made the AI pivot (04:42) The Classic Innovator’s Dilemma (05:58) Building culture around AI (07:10) The leverage nobody’s talking about (08:52) Codex vs Claude Code (09:15) The scale nobody knew about (09:47) SaaS, Finance, and the Biggest AI Labs (10:46) Why AI companies buy differently (12:04) What AI sales actually looks like (13:04) The Fastest sales cycles in the market (14:35) Why is Cybersecurity broken (15:59) Merge's solution to agent security (19:16) Mythos, Wiz, and the GitHub Hack (22:34) 1,000 Bot signups in one hour (23:23) Real reason companies pay ransom to hackers (25:43) The State of AI Infrastructure Costs (26:41) Internal AI Governance is the next big problem (29:28) Most Popular Integrations on Merge (30:54) Big Giants are planning big moves (31:54) What does Salesforce going headless exactly mean (33:41) Agents don’t need a UI anymore (36:59) Can this AI generation actually adapt (38:25) What Merge looks for in talent (41:25) The SaaSpocalypse is real (45:03) Are AI valuations actually insane? (47:11) How Merge landed OpenAI, Perplexity, Netflix & Uber (49:02) The Metrics that actually drive the business (49:58) Biggest misconceptions in tech right now (51:55) The market is finally catching up to Merge

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  TechSnif (@techsnif) reported 4 minutes ago

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

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  JasonFrostPhoto (@rootbeerphoto) reported 7 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport What? My problem was not about camera uploads.

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  Informed Choice 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇮🇱 (@DoreyMeryl67438) reported 7 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport I have been trying to contact support unsuccessfully. It seems that my account has been deactivated by accident when another account linked to it was cancelled. I would love to hear back on how to fix this issue. My account was recently renewed so should be there. Thanks

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  Mark van Eijk (@markvaneijk) reported 11 minutes ago

  @freekmurze It's the most stable beta in last 15 years. These apps I also use still work: Dropbox, PHP, Conductor. I did not encounter any issues, besides sometimes a lag here and there (regular beta stuff).

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  Elias Al (@iam_elias1) reported 11 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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  Commonwealth Sentinel (@CwealthSentinel) reported 12 minutes ago

  Intruders spent five months inside a stock exchange executive's email, copying it out slowly and hiding in normal Dropbox and OneDrive traffic. No software flaw, so no patch could fix it. When there is nothing to patch, watching is the defense. Know what normal looks like.

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  latina🌹🌺🌸 (@latinaqtvk) reported 16 minutes ago

  Who’s down to get my mage Dropbox for 5$ today 📍

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  america is an embarrassment🖕🏻🧊 (@abadlittlevibe) reported 20 minutes ago

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

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  Cane Allesta (@caneallesta) reported 20 minutes ago

  Your password manager has never actually managed anything. It just nagged you. That changes with iOS 27. At WWDC26, Apple announced what might be the clearest example of agentic AI shipping in a consumer product this year: the Passwords app, combined with Apple Intelligence and Safari, can now autonomously navigate to a website, sign in, change your weak or compromised password to a strong one, and save the new credential back to the vault all triggered by a single tap. A Live Activity indicator appears on screen so you can see it working, but you don't have to do anything else. The word "agentic" is doing a lot of work right now in the industry, often covering vague multi-step demos that never quite ship. Apple's move here is different because it's not broad automation it's surgical. The Passwords app already flagged weak, reused, or breached credentials, so the AI layer had a clearly scoped problem to solve: remove the friction between "you know your password is compromised" and "you actually changed it." That gap was enormous. Most people never close it. The competitive context makes this sharper. Google has been shipping Gemini's agentic features on Galaxy S26 and Pixel devices since early 2026, handling cross-app tasks like ordering food on Uber Eats or booking rides in Lyft broad, flashy, and currently limited to a short list of supported apps. Apple's answer is narrower on paper but arguably lands harder because it touches something every single user has: compromised passwords sitting in a list they've been ignoring for months. What Apple is really doing here is establishing trust in an agentic pattern before asking users to hand over bigger tasks. If your phone can autonomously change your Dropbox password without you watching every click, and nothing goes wrong, you're psychologically a lot more comfortable when it eventually offers to autonomously book a flight or fill out a form. It's the same trick that got people comfortable with Face ID start with something small where the upside is obvious and the downside is contained. The feature ships with iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 this autumn, with developer betas available now and public beta expected in July. For the password manager space 1Password, Dashlane, Bitwarden this is a quiet alarm. Apple just made "auto-fix compromised credentials" a native OS feature. Good luck charging $3/month for that. #WWDC26

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  Yaroslav (@yarslav) reported 21 minutes ago

  this post has been up for just about a day > 10+ leads for long-term packaging work > almost 200 new followers > impressions up across the whole account yet I declined every single lead I've never worked on a per-project basis, always valued long-term relationships but recently I decided to make it even more exclusive I keep the number of channels i work with deliberately VERY small so each one gets my full strategic attention but no matter how selective I am, this type of work has a ceiling I can only work with so many channels at once so I started building something bigger, that is beyond my time and solves a real problem all creators face youtube has become a real industry, with creators running teams of 5, 10, 15+ people but the tools haven't caught up everyone's still spreading their production across notion, slack, drive/dropbox, frame, and more tools just to run their channels because nothing was built specifically for youtube production until now. @feedzyio

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  Anuroop Kumar (@anuroopk4u) reported 23 minutes ago

  @jasonlk I remember as a teen, Dropbox set the standard. It was Dropbox, AirBnB, and Uber - as these “new economy” startups that were changing the world. Frankly speaking, Google Drive just started to do more for me and integrated easier sharing down the road. There was no value add I was getting from Dropbox once storage got commoditized.

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  Pradeep Kumar Xplorer (@ThaiKumar) reported 27 minutes ago

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

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  Solgato (@Tigger0000) reported 28 minutes ago

  @grok @alexabelonix @grok now i want to design a crochet motif of you.. but that would be inexcusable (says some voice in my head). talk about proto-guilty pleasures. funny how we're talking about a musical tool hook then a fiber work tool hook asserts itself. in the round-robin i've been dizzily going down the gpt connector rabbithole, "connect Dropbox" was scarily tempting. i didn't trust that sort of **** long before your people were part of it --it's not ph3333r of AI that says No. the company that scooped up Trello has a fascinating sales presentation.

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  Music, Film & RE Investments (@investandcreate) reported 33 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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  BadUncle (@BadUncleX) reported 33 minutes ago

  @mitsuhiko Similarly, I still use the old version before 7. They try to force you to bind to their server-dependent version. I prefer to use dropbox to synchronize.

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  Bunnie Maiiii (@imbunniemai) reported 34 minutes ago

  @JohnRai21044566 Ill!!! since Fansly having problem I can not post throu phone atm. I’ll have to get all those files to Dropbox then post on Fansly. This set will be posted in 2 days 😭😭 sorryyyy baby Im bit busy but I’ll try post as soon as I cannnn

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  Sahil Handa (@sahilhandapanda) reported 34 minutes ago

  I'm convinced this kind of environment-setting is even more important online. The digital equivalent of swapping a cassette in a studio is stopping to go hunt down a file in Dropbox or Drive.

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  Adrien Matray (@AdrienMatray) reported 34 minutes ago

  The trap: when ~/.claude/ is in Dropbox, it often seems to work. No error message. Sometimes your preferences load, sometimes they do not. The symptom is silent quality drops you cannot trace. Not a visible failure. That is why people miss it.

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  11B_geek_w_gun (@11B_GWG) reported 36 minutes ago

  @wtfcetialpha5 @sarahadams @Dropbox I'd argue a self-hosted ssh server and DDNS service is more "free" depending on your technical ability to setup. But there are advantages to Proton Drive. Both are viable solutions.

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  J. (@munchivelo) reported 39 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 woocommerce rows from json. no importers, no wordpress malarkey, or WC rest needed. it was 50x faster than wc's own CSV import. the images would be uploaded via ftp, and then on detection, would sync those to the media library, and i'd upload the image meta from the seo run, so they all had captions/alt text etc. it took what would be 3-5 hours of manual work per product, and congested it into a 2 minute image to fully live product system. 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. that would then flow back into the original source files which told the ai what images to gen and what products to launch. 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. the thing about it is; i built that mostly with GPT 4.0 and a little bit of 3.5! mostly copy and pasting code manually from the chats in chatGPT. all the plugins, the php, everything. then some of it got improved inside vscode back on the old original copilot plans, when $10 used to last you an entire month of none stop coding. this was before n8n, before agents were even a thing. all of that I built very specifically for myself, 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. people 'new' to codex, and CC etc don't know how good they have it. my advantage is that i have a year of scripts, a year of tools. i've laid the SYSTEMS in place, to fully map out entire features, precisely, and organized, and build out projects, in one hour, and have it implemented within the next. entire saas features - mousework. but 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. the secret is i sync it via etsy too, but they're API keys take FOREVER to aquire, but built my own etsy system, product uploader, which runs across 7 different stores. however, now, i've finally been building the replacement for it. 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, and it can do so so so much more. all the ideas I wanted to do, automated, fully, end to end. not only that, but i moved away from woocommerce entirely. instead i just built my own website builder, which is also 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. whether it's saas, local service, or online ecom. i also built an ai automated ad builder. it takes my brands images, or generates images. i've got background removers, and full skills and agents which fully 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. it has an every growing library to source from, templates to use, and the system derives right with the websites, so all themes/styles match precisely to the brand. this is 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. none of these saas companies get it. and they're heading in the wrong direction. we could already DO half of what these companies are doing. my own personal SEO system, which i built for my automated web builder, is already 10x better than any yoast, rankmath etc. i skip expensive ahrefs, semrush, and just rebuild their services myself, using API, which is 100x cheaper. except this time it FEEDS my system, and i don't need to lay a finger on it. nobody cares about these little one off apps that won't exist in a year. they're either failing to see the future, or they're hoping for an early exit before they know the dominos start falling. and they don't get it. their 'app' is just a little tiny module in something that thinks bigger. people will want PRIVATE systems. all speaking to each other. not 1200 integrations and 1200 invoices to send to, that don't even have a ******* brain. 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. the only winners will be the ones prepared for cannabilism. ready for war. they call it war rooms, yet they sit around eating donuts provided by their VC's. real builders sit in the dark, in empty rooms, grinding. if you're a cannabilistic, sick sadistic, son of *****, 666, with an idea. then drop a you know what.

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  alt guy (@0xAlternateGuy) reported 41 minutes ago

  @antirez quite suspicious this happens immediately after the Dropbox CEO steps down…

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  Hospital Hell (@HospitalHell) reported 42 minutes ago

  @SteveHiltonx The mostly mail-in/dropbox election system in California is painfully slow, but that doesn’t make it in any way fraudulent.

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  Mohit Sindhwani (@onghu) reported 48 minutes ago

  @ocornut @RichardKogelnig Actually, some times the new menu is faster and the classic menu is much slower... but then sometimes, the new menu shows 3 entries called "Loading..." and that's terrible, too! I think one of my W11 PCs has almost instant context menu - the Dropbox notes were from that one.

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  Rebecca Diamond (@rebeccardiamond) reported 55 minutes ago

  @p_ganong I’ve had this problem too. When I’m editing with Claude, edit manually directly in the .tex file locally on your machine through overleaf-Dropbox sync. Then you and Claude are both working locally.

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  Jody (@Jody28391214234) reported 56 minutes ago

  @sarahadams @BenghaziAttacks @BentonDave28405 Same with me Sarah - running into trouble trying just to get the report from DropBox. Help.

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  Prajwal (@0xPrajwal_) reported 59 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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  Shripal Gandhi (@ishripalgandhi) reported 59 minutes ago

  Hey @Dropbox ... Your advanced customer service is horrible! I have benefit chasing them for an important issue since more than 2 days (not counting the weekend) now and I still do not have a resolution. Is it that your reps are allowed to answer only one email per client per day??

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  Anna Bubbly 🌺✨ (@AnnaBubblyMV) reported 60 minutes ago

  Is uploading on Clips4Sale not working for anyone else? I can only get it to work if I do it through Dropbox, the usual upload button isn’t working

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  David Llada ♞ (@davidllada) reported 1 hour ago

  @Dropbox I’ve been dealing with an issue for a few weeks now, and your AI customer chatbox has been unable to resolve it. It keeps looping through the same troubleshooting steps that haven’t worked, and I’ve already spent over three hours on it. "It looks like our chat has wandered into areas I'm not equipped to handle effectively. Unfortunately, I can only help with Dropbox-related questions, and I'm unable to help you with this topic." I’ve been a customer since 2009. It’s disappointing to reach this point, but this level of support is unacceptable.