Dropbox Discontinues Passwords App
Dropbox (Hacker News, TidBITS-Talk, MacRumors, Slashdot):
As part of our efforts to focus on enhancing other features in our core product, Dropbox Passwords will be discontinued on October 28, 2025.
We recommend transferring your passwords to another password manager application such as 1Password—a highly trusted and secure password manager.
Good that they are focusing on the core product—it needs work and I haven’t found their side projects compelling—but only one-month notice before the app stops working and three months before the data are deleted is not great.
Previously:
- Proton Pass and Proton Authenticator
- 1Password 8 for Mac
- Dropbox Passwords
- Meet the New Dropbox
- Evolving the Dropbox Brand
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A month's notice is crazy, but not as crazy as trusting Dropbox to be your passwords app.
@billyok: haha, got me.
With even MS discontinuing password storage in their Authenticator app, it becomes apparent that now most users do the right thing and store passwords in a manager, users now need to be careful which service they use.
Keychain and Keepass it is for me. If those disappear I'll probably go back to a .txt file.
I honestly haven't heard much of Dropbox in years. They seem to have lost mindshare among consumers (in favor of iCloud Drive, OneDrive, etc.) even more rapidly than 1Password (in favor of Keychain, etc.).
_If_ you want to branch out to password management (which I'm unsure is/was a Dropbox strength), you gotta do better marketing than people learning of your product the day you discontinue it.
