Dropbox is saying goodbye to its password manager after five years of service. This leaves current customers in a lurch, as the company has also announced that users only have a few months to extract all of their data.
This discontinuation will happen in phases, but October 28 is the day Dropbox Passwords will be entirely shuttered. On August 28, the platform will become view-only in both the mobile app and browser extension. The autofill functionality also deactivates on that date.
On September 11, the mobile app will stop working, though information will still be retrievable via the browser extension. As previously mentioned, users lose access to everything on October 28 as all data will be “permanently and securely deleted.”
Dropbox didn’t give an actual reason behind this move, only saying that it’s “part of our efforts to focus on enhancing other features in our core product.” That likely means it wasn’t attracting many people to platform, despite being a fairly solid offering. It’s been a free perk of the larger Dropbox suite since 2021, after first being offered to just Pro users.
The company recommends current users transition over to 1Password, which happens to be our pick for the best password manager. However, there are plenty of other platforms out there to try out.