Cloud storage is a simple and secure way to centralise your important family files—like financial and healthcare documents, photos and more—in one easily accessible place. It allows you to share content with loved ones, sign documents online and organise your digital life.
The Dropbox Family plan provides a convenient and cost-effective way for up to six people to share 2 TB of cloud storage while allowing everyone to have their own private Dropbox experience. It's ideal for families or friends who want to share storage and collaborate while keeping their files secure and private.
How does Dropbox Family work?
With a Dropbox Family plan, up to six people have one plan and one bill. Users of the plan must be aged 13 years or older in the United States and 16 or older anywhere else.
Each member has their own Dropbox account so they can manage their personal files and folders. One Family member acts as the Family manager, managing the billing and memberships for the whole plan.
You get a safe and central place to store, organise and share whether you need to preserve family history or plan the next adventure. It’s an online filing cabinet where you can digitise IDs, permission slips or medical records so they’re easy to find and ready when you need them.
Dropbox Family features
Shared storage
The entire family shares a pool of 2 TB (2,000 GB) of storage. Each family member gets access to the shared storage but everyone can keep their own files private.
Individual accounts
Even though the storage is shared, each family member has their own separate Dropbox account with individual logins. Files and folders are private unless they are specifically shared.
Family Room folder
The Family Room folder provides a space where all members can collaborate and share files easily. This makes it simple to share things like photos, documents or videos with everyone in the family.
Access to premium features
Every family member gets access to Dropbox’s premium features, which include:
- Smart sync: automatically manage your storage by only keeping certain files online (without downloading them to your device).
- Camera uploads: automatically upload photos from your mobile phone to your Dropbox account. Photos uploaded to your account aren't automatically shared with other Family members.
- Dropbox Rewind: roll back your Dropbox account to a previous state (up to 30 days), in case of accidental deletion or file corruption.
- Remote wipe: delete all of your Dropbox files and folders from your computer if your device is lost or stolen.
Privacy controls
Each member of your Family plan can control what files they share. The Family Manager can add or remove people from the plan but they don’t have access to individual files.
