Dropbox sets his password manager

Dropbox Passwords is stopped: The password manager has already been canceled on October 28, 2025. Then users lose any access to all stored passwords, user names and payment information. Dropbox deletes it directly, there is no option for recovery. However, the AutoFill functions will be stopped on August 28, Dropbox Passwords then passes into the writing-protected mode. On September 11, the provider also switches off the app for smartphones.

Users must therefore immediately export their data; You will receive a CSV file with your information stored at Dropbox. This works with the browser extension and in the mobile app. As a replacement, the provider recommends the 1password service, but CSV files can also be imported from other commercial password managers or the free alternative keeper pass.

A lot of effort for admins

Anyone who uses Dropbox Passwords must also make significantly more effort: each user has to export their data themselves, there is no central function for this. Administrators can only check which their users use the service. If this is the case, a score is awarded for you in the corporate console. Finally, you have to inform your affected users about the changes and provide a replacement. In addition, there is “a few weeks” an email from Dropbox to the users who still did not export their data.

At the same time, Dropbox stops Dark Web monitoring. It was part of Passwords and should be found in the Darknet “Signs of account details” of the user. If the service was found, the user was notified and was able to award new registration data through the password manager.

As a reason for the step, there is Dropbox In the announcement that one wants to concentrate on “the improvement of other features in our core product (…)”. The provider had not introduced the password manager until 2020, a year later the focus was on business customers. As part of the commercial tariffs, the service should enhance the subscriptions, and there was also a functionally circumcised free variant. There have never been paying for the success of Dropbox Passwords on the highly competitive market for such programs.