Lightroom Export into Dropbox loses metadata?

I made some iPhone photos with a monochrome filter.
Then imported into a windows folder and the photos dropped the mono filter and they switched to color
Next I edited in lightroom and exported to a folder and uploaded to dropbox
The photos that I left as full color in Lightroom reverted to monochrome in Dropbox.
So I tested in Flickr and the photos all retained the properties as edited in Lightroom.
anyone understand what happened? is there a flaw in Dropbox? Is there a setting I should have used in Lightroom to make sure the final develop settings "stick" upon export?
thanks!
-David

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