


Most importantly: why on earth did you hide access to the main feature of Dropbox (your local Dropbox folder) behind an extra click-and-navigate movement? And which project manager thought making it harder to access the most important product of your company behind an extra mouse move was a good idea? Ignore the whole aspect of platform consistency and ask yourself why Dropbox thought it would be a good change to make it harder to access the Dropbox folder on a users computer. "Well, our Mac and Linux users don't have this great feature, maybe we should remove it from Windows!" Is that really what happened here? I cannot fathom how that thought made it all the way to actual, real, push-to-live release state!

Platform consistency? If it we were still in the days of single button mice on Macs would you prevent windows users from right clicking in your program just so Mac users can have platform consistency? Platform consistency has to be one of the absolute worst reasons to remove a useful UX feature. After multiple restarts and Dropbox reinstalls, I finally thought to myself: "Maybe they are silly enough to remove a useful feature? I can't imagine this would happen, but let's check anyway."Īnd here we are! One search brought me many threads and many posts of people complaining about this change. I've been double clicking this icon for the last few days thinking something was wrong when it wouldn't respond. It's expected that this behavior will improve over time, but in the meantime, you can check all your incoming text using the Your Phone app directly.Adding my severe disappointment that double click to open folder was removed. The reason is that when you close or minimize the app, there's a delay before text notifications appear in Action Center. When using the Your Phone app, you'll notice that only some of the notifications for incoming text messages, but not for all of them. (In future updates, Microsoft is expected to bring this functionality.) Inconsistent incoming text notifications The Your Phone app is still a work in progress, and at the time of this writing, it doesn't include support for viewing or sending media in MMS messages. Missing photos and videos from text messages

If you're saving pictures on a different location, they won't appear on your desktop app. In addition, only the images within the "Camera Roll" and "Screenshots" folders will be available. You won't see all your picturesįor instance, to reduce network usage and optimize performance, the Your Phone app only shows the 25 recent images from your Android device. While the above troubleshooting steps can help to fix most problems setting up the Your Phone app, the experience is still a work in progress, which means that some features and functionalities are limited or they're yet to be implemented. Information you need to know about Your Phone Once you've completed the steps, re-launch the app, set up the experience one more time, and this time, it should connect to your Android device. On Android, use these steps to reset the Your Phone Companion app: How to reset the Your Phone app on Windows 10 and AndroidĪlternatively, you can reset the app to resolve most common issues connecting your computer with your phone.
