Dropbox clarifies {that a} native Apple Silicon app is coming in 2022 after discussion board outrage

Dropbox will lastly be updating its Mac app to natively assist Apple Silicon someday within the first half of 2022, the corporate confirmed at the moment. A earlier discussion board thread noticed Dropbox staffers declare {that a} native app would require “a bit more support before we share your suggestion with our team.”

The months-old thread was resurfaced in a put up by developer Mitchell Hashimoto on Twitter (spotted by MacRumors), sparking complaints from Dropbox customers who had been disenchanted by the impression that the corporate would solely develop the app if sufficient clients requested for it. While Dropbox technically does work with Apple Silicon {hardware} because of Apple’s Rosetta 2 software program translation layer, it’s not as energy or reminiscence environment friendly because it could possibly be if it ran natively.

In response to the confusion, Dropbox’s CEO Drew Houston clarified that the service is “certainly supporting Apple Silicon” and that it’s been “working for a while on a native M1 build which we aim to release in H1 2022.” Houston additionally apologized for the assist thread responses, which he referred to as “not ideal.”

The support thread has additionally since been resolved with the same replace clarifying the present improvement of a local M1 app and apologizing for the confusion. “While we regularly ask for customer feedback and input on new products or features, this should not have been one of those instances.”