While it’s wonderful to see an Apple Silicon version of Dropbox finally released, there is a tiny catch that you should be aware of. Well, it only took more than a year, but the day has finally arrived.

The public backlash put a lot of pressure on Dropbox to finally release the native ARM version of the app. And while Rosetta 2 is great about making it possible to run all of our favorite apps on the Mac, it’s not the end-all-be-all solution. Because a cloud services app like Dropbox is constantly running in the background, it’s important to keep the use of system resources to a minimum. It seems that the M1, M1 Pro, and M1 Max are already prone to memory leaks (which are being worked on), but Dropbox added even more unnecessary strain. The problem with the old version was that it was forced to rely on using Apple’s Rosetta 2 software, which led to even bigger issues. Late in 2021, Dropbox came under fire for its inability to adapt and release a version of its desktop client for Apple’s M1 lineup of computers.

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