Dropbox has yet to say when native support for Apple Silicon will be available to the general public.Apple today seeded the first beta of macOS 12.3 to developers for testing. An arm64 identifier confirms Arm support in Dropbox's latest macOS beta.Īgain, this is only a beta. Now, as the site reported yesterday, citing a Dropbox user, testing for that M1 version is currently underway.
Dropbox quickly changed its tune, telling 9to5Mac that an M1 version of Dropbox would arrive soon. We're still waiting for other apps to come to the M1 side, including OneDrive, which has also promised to add support.ĭropbox invited controversy last year when a forum moderator responded to requests for native M1 support by suggesting that more interest was needed. And it's possible that some lesser-known apps will never be transitioned to M1 systems at all.īut with Apple continuing to cut ties with Intel and planning to have all of its systems on its own chips by the end of 2022, the number of apps requiring Rosetta 2 should continue to shrink. For most users, Rosetta 2 is a sufficient solution for running Intel-based applications. Running Rosetta 2, however, can generally affect battery life, memory, and performance. Without the beta, M1 users are required to use Rosetta 2, software that translates apps with x86_64 instructions for Apple's Arm-based silicon, in order to use the Dropbox app. Until now, Dropbox did not offer a native version of its file-hosting service for computers using Apple's chips, frustrating some professional users who rely on and pay for the program for work. The release is the first step toward fulfilling the company's promise to offer native support for M1-based Macs.Īpple debuted its M1 silicon in 2020. A recently released beta version of Dropbox's app for macOS has added support for Apple Silicon in the current MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, 24-inch iMac, and Mac Mini.
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