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What is Dropbox Family and how does it work?

3 min read

25 Jan 2025

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.

Give your family the space to share, store and so much more

Whether you’re all living in one house, the kids are away at college or you’re keeping in touch with family members on the other side of the globe, the Dropbox Family plan can keep your family organised and connected. 

Store important documents, share photos from trips and keep on top of all your important family files with the Dropbox Family plan. Want to digitise all that family paperwork? Scan and store it in Dropbox, ready for any of you to access from the cloud. Kids away at college? Safely share photos in a Family folder. And if your family is a little more global, sharing and planning things together in Dropbox can make you feel that bit closer, no matter the distance.

It all starts with a Dropbox Family plan.

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