Dropbox Is Pulling The Plug On Its Password Manager

Dropbox is saying goodbye to its password manager aft five years of service. This leaves existent customers successful a lurch, arsenic nan institution has besides announced that users only person a fewer months to extract each of their data.

This discontinuation will hap successful phases, but October 28 is nan time Dropbox Passwords will beryllium wholly shuttered. On August 28, nan level will go view-only successful some nan mobile app and browser extension. The autofill functionality besides deactivates connected that date.

On September 11, nan mobile app will extremity working, though accusation will still beryllium retrievable via nan browser extension. As antecedently mentioned, users suffer entree to everything connected October 28 arsenic each information will beryllium "permanently and securely deleted."

Dropbox didn't springiness an existent logic down this move, only saying that it's "part of our efforts to attraction connected enhancing different features successful our halfway product." That apt intends it wasn't attracting galore group to platform, despite being a reasonably coagulated offering. It's been a free perk of nan larger Dropbox suite since 2021, aft first being offered to conscionable Pro users.

The institution recommends existent users modulation complete to 1Password, which happens to beryllium our prime for nan best password manager. However, location are plentifulness of different platforms retired location to effort out.