Dropbox finally supports M1 Macs natively with new beta

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9to5Mac reports that the latest version of Dropbox has added native support for Macs. The addition was confirmed by a community manager on the company's forums, and we verified it by installing the latest version of the macOS app. You can get it from this forum.

The service has always worked on Apple's M1 Macs, but until now it had to use Apple's Rosetta 2 translation layer. The macOS app was able to run on machines with Apple's new M1 processors. When used with Apple Silicon devices, native M1 support should result in better performance and less power consumption. You might not notice a difference in day-to-day use because of the fast translation of the language.

One of the last high-profile holdouts still lacking support for Apple's processors was Dropbox. There was controversy in October after employees of the company posted on the forum that more customers would have to ask for a native M1 version before the company would develop it. The CEO of the company publicly announced that an M1 version of the app would arrive in the first half of 2022.