Particularly if you work with computers, Dropbox is one of the most useful tools available, and a new update for its official iOS app has just made it handier than ever.
Adding support for Touch ID, iOS 8 users now have the ability to unlock their Dropbox with a fingerprint. In addition, the update also adds support the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, along with sorting out general stability and performance issues, such as a fix for previewing rich text format files on iOS 8.
Given that the iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3 have just been announced as including Touch ID, this Dropbox update will additionally be great news for those who use their tablets for productivity.
For the 1% of readers who haven’t used Dropbox before, it’s a great way of bringing all of your photos, documents and videos together for easy sharing. Simply save files to the Dropbox folder (2 GB of storage is the free standard when you sign up) and then share them by sending a link to friends or colleagues, which means no more attachments.
Dropbox was recently in the news due to an attack which saw details of 6,937,081 Dropbox accounts, along with associated email addresses and passwords, stolen. However, the company confirmed that Dropbox itself had not been hacked, and that the logins were mostly expired and harvested from third-party services.
The app can be downloaded for free from iTunes at this link.
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
One response to “Dropbox gets Touch ID and iPhone 6 support”
Touch ID not working for me with Dropbox.