How to Replace Dropbox with iCloud Drive On iPhone, iPad, & Mac!

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Here is how you can finally ditch Dropbox for good and replace it with iCloud Drive on all your devices. With the extra features offered as part of iCloud such as automatic devices backups, Private Relay, custom email domains, and more it is a great value compared to Dropbox.

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0:00 Intro
0:44 What is iCloud Drive
1:58 How to use iCloud Drive on iPhone and iPad
5:19 How to use iCloud Drive on Mac
7:23 Pricing comparison for Dropbox and iCloud Drive

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Glorious tutorial. Not sure why ya only have like 30 comments. Thanks for going through all this!!

jordansjensen

I would be interested in how to sync Dropbox and iCloud folders than replacing one with the other. Any videos on that?

bobsykes

How do you migrate the data in DropBox to the iCloud Drive?

Brendan

I might be missing something here but how do you transfer files from dropbox to iCloud drive using your iPhone?

sdophoto

⚠ : Unfortunately, iCloud Drive is not yet a hundred percent alternative to Dropbox, especially for apps that work with data containers, such as databases (Devonthink) or apps with project files (Scrivener). Storing such complex data formats under iCloud can possibly lead to synchronization problems or in the worst case destroy data. For simple files, such as JPG or text formats, iCloud can be used well.

SFAutor

What a timely video! I was just thinking about finding a way to do this exact thing, just yesterday. Thank you.

WayneHendersonVO

I may do that. Drop boxes recent updates are bland and they are all geared to teams. Nothing exciting for individual users.

JonBushell

What is that amazing wallpaper? Have a link?

mohrbius

I did this last year. Took some time to understand iCloud Drive but once I figured it out, very happy. I do keep a few things on free Drop Box but these are also on iCloud Drive. BTW Drop Box will not prorate your annual cost when you leave which is a very poor policy and you must make sure you don’t auto renew Drop Box. Great review.

mbryars

Would it cause a problem if I set my local Dropbox folder location inside of the iCloud Drive? That way I have double copies of all my files (one local, one on iCloud Drive, and a third on Dropbox).

richardbryanesq

Thanks for this but to be precise it's called Files on iOS just to help people who go searching for the iCloud Drive app which doesn't exist. Also you didn't show us how you got that .png file into the new folder.

bfam

Very useful: the new DropBox update is gonna be horrible, so I’m looking to ditch it :-/

DEtchells

The one thing keeping me from doing this.
Is a lack of syncing options.
IE I don't want everything on every computer. I want to have options in order to select what I want syncing on what computer.
I was exploring some work around a while back for this but they were working around not a system built-in.

Do we know if this or something like it will be coming? i would love to jump ship from dropbox.

tfraley

Excellent video thanks. Question. Dropbox is typically system agnostic. How do I get my Apple files account on a PC desktop and also on an apple desktop similar to a dropbox folder on each systems desktop. (Now web browser)

TechWithTony

I have 6000 photos and videos that I’ve uploaded to Dropbox over the years using Camera Uploads every so often. I now want to drop my $18 a month Dropbox and go with 200 gig iCloud storage.
Using iCloud Drive, should I bulk copy all those files (photos and videos) and paste into a new folder in iCloud drive?
Is there an easy way to sort and/or work with this many files after I transfer, or is it going to be cumbersome? I assume iOS will treat these as files instead of like the photos in my “recent photos”.
And. :-)) I’m still a little fuzzy on whether those files will stay in iCloud folder on my iPad. ie. even without those many files, settings shows iCloud being the largest user of my iPad storage at 38 gb.

myronarnold