In October there was some controversy after forum posts from the company’s employees suggested more customers would have to ask for a native M1 version before the company would develop it. That said, Rosetta translation is so fast you might not notice a difference in day-to-day use (we haven’t so far).ĭropbox was one of the last high-profile holdouts still lacking support for Apple’s ARM-based processors. Offering native M1 support should result in Dropbox having better performance and consuming less power when used with Apple Silicon devices. This allowed the macOS app, which was originally designed for old Intel-based Macs, to run on machines with Apple’s new M1 processors. The service has always worked on Apple’s M1 Macs, but until now it’s had to use Apple’s Rosetta 2 translation layer. You can grab it yourselves from this Dropbox forum. The addition was confirmed by a Dropbox community manager on the company’s forums, and we’ve verified it by installing the latest beta of the macOS app.

Dropbox’s latest beta has added native support for Macs with M1 processors, 9to5Mac reports.

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