Dropbox also has measures in place to protect user privacy, as well as detect any suspicious account activity, phishing, and malware. Both of those are widely used security protocols. Security and privacy protocols: Dropbox uses 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) to protect stored data, and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)/Transport Layer Security (TLS) to protect data during transfer.

For this list, we included products that offer at least 5GB of free storage.

Open the Dropbox app on your phone or tablet.Storage: While Dropbox Basic offers only 2GB of free storage, in our research we discovered that a lot of Dropbox competitors offer anywhere from 5GB to 15GB storage in their free plans.

Once your files have green check icons over the file icons, they have successfully uploaded to Dropbox.

When you add files to your Dropbox folder, they'll upload to Dropbox.

Copy and paste or drag and drop files into the Dropbox folder.

For larger files or folders, use the desktop or mobile apps, which don’t have a file size limit. Note: Each file or folder that you upload on must be 50 GB or smaller.

If you chose Folder, select a folder and click Upload.

If you chose Files, select as many files as you like and click Open.

Any files you add to your Dropbox account sync across all your computers, phones, and tablets where you installed Dropbox.

Once you create an account, you can add files to your Dropbox account.

On your phone or tablet, download the Dropbox mobile app through the App Store or Google Play Store.

To install the Dropbox app on your phone or tablet: You only need one account no matter how many devices you want to keep in sync.

Download the Dropbox desktop app on your computer.

To install the Dropbox app on your computer: Install the Dropbox apps on your computer, phone, or tablet to access your files from all your devices. You can access your Dropbox files from or the Dropbox apps. If you already installed the Dropbox mobile or computer apps, you can also create an account by launching the app and clicking Sign up.

Click the box to agree to the Dropbox terms.

Type your name and email address (your email address is the username for your Dropbox account).

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