How to use Dropbox On Your iPhone and iPad
A lot of people using Dropbox these days. The service acts as an online hard drive for your files. With Dropbox you are able to keep all your images, documents and videos close. All you need is an Internet connection and you will be able to access these from virtually every operating system. It also has a feature called Favorites which will make your files, images and videos accessible offline. In this article we’ll cover Dropbox usage for the iOS.
Further notes
To better understand Dropbox you can link your Dropbox account into My Computer or the place where all your hard drives are displayed. Along with C: (your local hard drive) you will have – for example – Y: (your online drive, in other terms Dropbox). You will be able to copy files to and from Y: just as you’d do with a regular drive. Y: is a cloud drive which automatically means you will be able to access that drive from any device capable of running the Dropbox app.
Make a Dropbox account
You will need an account in order to use Dropbox. Making the account will create a Public, Photos and Uploads folder in your account folder. These three folders are shared implicitly. You are free to create other folders to your liking and share them with other devices.
Managing Files
Once you have created your Dropbox account your will have your photos and videos and files you chose to share uploaded to your Dropbox account. Photos contains all your images and you will be able to save the images to your Camera Roll, favorite them or email them as files. Videos can be favorited and emailed but they cannot be saved to the iPhone or iPad. Files can be opened with their respective apps. If you want to open an Excel file on your iPad you will be given a choice of apps to open the file with: Numbers, PrinceCentral, Evernote and Ignition (depending on which of these you have installed).
Uploading Files To Dropbox
Tap the plus sign in the Upload section of Dropbox and pick images and videos to upload to this folder. The images and video files in question will be available to other devices running Dropbox and they will be ready to be saved on to other computers and devices. There’s a limit to video files meaning that files over 180MB will not upload. There’s a 2GB limit to your free Dropbox account and this can be upgraded to 50GB for $99.99. You can also get extra free space through affiliate links and certain contests the Dropbox team holds periodically. The limit to a maximum free account is around 20GB.
Conclusion
Apple is all about cloud services these days and Dropbox wants a piece of the cloud pie. The true power of this app lies in the fact that Dropbox is available on a wide range of devices and operating systems. It can work on iOS and Android, Windows, Linux and OS X among others. Dropbox is recommended by us because of its ease of use and the transfer speeds it displays when copying files.
