We are aware of the issue with the badge emails resending to everyone, we apologise for the inconvenience - learn more here.

Forum Discussion

Swe T.'s avatar
Swe T.
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

How to Clear or Remove the Recent file list in mobile apps

I want to clear all the Recent file list, there has no clear function please advise how to clear the list. Thanks & regards Swe Tin
Mobile
Third Party Integrations
  • Sam DBX's avatar
    Sam DBX
    11 months ago
    Hi everybody,
     
    We’d like to provide an update on this topic:
     
    Keep in mind that you can completely hide the Recents section with the new modular home layout on mobile:
     
    1. Open the Dropbox mobile app.
    2. Tap the customize icon (artist palette) 🎨
    3. To add or remove a default section, tap the toggle next to Recents, Starred, Camera Uploads, 4. Viewed links, Shared, or Offline.
    5. Tap Save to save your changes.
     
    You can find more info in here.
     
    Also, based on your comments, our team is working on improving the recents list update (when an item is deleted remotely). Thank you for sharing your feedback on this.
     
    We'll keep you in the loop for future features related to this.
    Sam 
Robert H.27's avatar
Robert H.27
New member | Level 1
9 years ago

Dropbox has become the most bizarre program I have ever seen. I pay for $99.00 X 5 but certainly would not have if I had known that they were so capable of screwing the pooch on something as simple as making their program totally unusable for a large segment of the users. I have been changing all my dropbox files over to Onedrive to see if that will work better, but have noted in some of the posts that Google has a similar option. I don't know if either Google or Microsoft will be a better program, but at this point they certainly cannot be any worse. I hate to lose the money, and make the people I pay for the extra space, change over to another program, but I am better off losing the money as opposed to having to jump through the hoops dropbox wants me too.

Does anybody know who is responsible for the decisions at dropbox? It appears from the amount of complaints and lack of responses that whoever it  is must be in deep hiding because I have never purchased a program that refuses to at least try to justify the erroneous decisions they made regarding a programming problem. I maybe have not got it changed but at least they had the decency to justify their thinking.

Relative to Rich!! He probably escaped from Mom's basement or the individual responsible for the massive screw-up, because NOBODY can be dumb enough to make excuses and wrong headed statements such as HE?? has.

About Apps and Installations

Have a question about a Dropbox app or installation? Reach out to the Dropbox Community and get solutions, help, and advice from members.

Need more support

If you need more help you can view your support options (expected response time for an email or ticket is 24 hours), or contact us on X or Facebook.

For more info on available support options for your Dropbox plan, see this article.

If you found the answer to your question in this Community thread, please 'like' the post to say thanks and to let us know it was useful!