# Please help me with Dropbox on an iPhone **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 26, 2013, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-dropbox-on-an-iphone/667228 "2013-08-26T18:37:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-dropbox-on-an-iphone/667228/1 "2013-08-26T18:37:48Z")
I’ve been using Dropbox on my PC and my Android phone for some time, and have never had any problems with it, but I’ve been trying to get it to work with my wife’s iPhone 5 and am stymied. All I want to do is share a text file shopping list between our two phones. So I installed the Dropbox app on her phone, set up a folder from her account and shared it with my account. I’ve put the file in the folder from my phone, but it doesn’t appear on her phone. I wanted to try to create a file on her phone to see if I could see it from my phone, but I couldn’t find any way to do that. Unlike the Android version, the iPhone version of Dropbox doesn’t seem to have a way to create a simple text file. Or if it does, I couldn’t find it. And the native IOS Notes program doesn’t seem to have a way to save a file in Dropbox. Can anyone offer me some advice? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Consensus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3be4f8/32.png) [@Consensus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Consensus)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-dropbox-on-an-iphone/667228/2 "2013-08-26T19:46:32Z")
Test if the sharing mechanism is working between the 2 accounts with another file like a photo. Also make sure the folder that is being shared is not located in another shared folder because that doesn’t work. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-dropbox-on-an-iphone/667228/3 "2013-08-27T18:32:35Z")
Just to be sure, I uninstalled Dropbox from the iPhone, shut it off, restarted it, and reinstalled Dropbox. Then I uploaded a picture from another computer to the shared file. I can see it (and the original text file) on that computer and on my Android phone, but not on the iPhone, which says the folder is empty. Also, I can see no way to put a file into the folder from the iPhone. What am I doing wrong? Is it Dropbox? Is it the iPhone? ---
**Author:** ![yoyodyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a9a28c/32.png) [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-dropbox-on-an-iphone/667228/4 "2013-08-27T22:40:51Z")
Give [PlainText](http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/plaintext)a try. ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-dropbox-on-an-iphone/667228/5 "2013-08-27T23:44:56Z")
I have drop box on 4 devices, but they are all on one account. If you find the answer, be sure to let us know. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2013, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-dropbox-on-an-iphone/667228/6 "2013-08-28T00:28:02Z")
> [@GaryM](#): > > I have drop box on 4 devices, but they are all on one account. If you find the answer, be sure to let us know. Is one of them an iPhone? ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2013, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-with-dropbox-on-an-iphone/667228/7 "2013-08-28T07:27:37Z")
I couldn’t get it to work: I could share a folder between the iPhone and Android, and could see files that were present when it was shared, but edits to files made on Android weren’t visible on the iPhone and vice versa. I’ve given up and am using Google Drive, which worked perfectly right off the bat. Thanks, anyway.