Dropbox Passwords Is Shutting Down in Phases Starting Next Month

[MacRumors]

Dropbox has announced it will discontinue Dropbox Passwords on October 28, ending the five-year run of its credential management service.

The shutdown is going to follow a phased approach, according to the company. The password manager will become view-only from August 28, meaning new entries and autofill features will be disabled. The mobile app will then stop working on September 11, but the browser extension is set to remain functional until the final closure.

Users must export their data before October 28, which is when Dropbox says it will be permanently deleting all stored passwords, usernames, and payment information from its servers. Dropbox is recommending users transfer their credentials to another app like 1Password before the final end date, and has provided export guides on its support site.

The company claims the closure will allow it to "focus on enhancing other features in our core product." However, Dropbox Passwords has had increasingly stiff competition over the years from the likes of 1Password, LastPass, and built-in solutions from Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

Dropbox acquired password manager Valt in 2019, and then launched Dropbox Passwords in 2020 for paid subscribers before expanding to all users in 2021.

Article Link: Dropbox Passwords Is Shutting Down in Phases Starting Next Month

 

[ralph_sws]

1password will not be next 🥹

 

[blevins321]

next will be 1password 😆

No it won’t. Apple Passwords is till lacking major features. Plus, 1Password is dedicated to that task; not an extra popped on top of a storage service.

1Password is amazing for its Fastmail Masked Email integration, OS options, and browser plugin functionality.

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

Anyone else don't use DB much these days?

 

[decafjava]

Anyone else don't use DB much these days?

*Raises hand* - between OneDrive from my work and iCloud I really am not using DB as much as I did say 10 years ago.

 

[Rosecroft]

dropbox is the main service as is google drive. One drive is garbage. And 1password F them. i am not paying a monthly sub for password storage. At least with dropbox it was included with the sub.

 

[johannnn]

Anyone else don't use DB much these days?

I watched their latest quarterly report (link) and it says "Paying users decreased by 15,000 paying users quarter-over-quarter."

And it makes total sense.

• a lot of people have TB at iCloud to backup their photos
• a lot of people have TB at Google Drive to backup their photos
• a lot of people have TB at MS Onedrive from work

I dont see any space for Dropbox here.

And their SMALLEST tier is 11.99 per month when paying monthly. They dont have any smaller tier at like 0.99 per month like everyone else.

I'm not surprised that their stock (NASDAQ: DBX) is totally flat since their debut in 2018

 

[ventmore]

Literally just received this email yesterday:

 

[Plutonius]

What am I going to do now ?

 

[Unggoy Murderer]

Anyone else don't use DB much these days?

Yeah I stopped using it a few years back. I use iCloud for my main "live" storage and it works great.

I also use AWS S3 (Glacier deep archive tier) as a failsafe. Costs less than £1.00/m for 400GB of usage.

 

[polyphenol]

Anyone else don't use DB much these days?

I use it for one thing: File sharing.

I don't want to share publicly from iCloud - I haven't found a way of doing that anonymously.

I already use Maestral rather than the horrible DropBox software.

Other than that one purpose, I'd DropDropBox.

 

[Runaway Train]

Dropbox still the service I use. I have One Drive and I agree it is garbage - non allowed file names, crap for sync services, insanely obscure interface. No thanks. I cloud is used only for IOS backups. Maybe when IPad OS gets a real file system (said to be improving but we’ll see). That said, DB will be crushed or scooped up by one of the quasi monopolies. I’m ready for that one so not tied too closely to it ….

 

[masotime]

Prophetic:

What Houston does is Dropbox, the digital storage service that has surged to 50 million users, with another joining every second. Jobs presciently saw this sapling as a strategic asset for Apple. Houston cut Jobs’ pitch short: He was determined to build a big company, he said, and wasn’t selling, no matter the status of the bidder (Houston considered Jobs his hero) or the prospects of a nine-digit price (he and Ferdowsi drove to the meeting in a Zipcar Prius).

Jobs smiled warmly as he told them he was going after their market. “He said we were a feature, not a product,” says Houston.

Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech's Hottest Startup

Drew Houston turned down Steve Jobs to build the next big thing.

www.forbes.com

 

[Unregistered 4U]

Prophetic:

Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech's Hottest Startup

Drew Houston turned down Steve Jobs to build the next big thing.

www.forbes.com

They were never going to build a big company with what they had, but, you know, good on them for sticking with that!

 

[pdaholic]

I keep all my books, movies, and videos in dropbox. I tried switching to Google Drive after I got my Galaxy fold, but Dropbox is still superior, even on Android.

 

[akidd]

Syncing files between users got so hit and miss with DB, that I gave up and use SwissTransfer (30 day lifespan) for transfers. I loved it when it was new/new-ish. Never did get that final recruit new users for us person (I think people has already tried it) so no upgrade back in the day.

 

[richpjr]

Anyone else don't use DB much these days?

I haven't used it in years. I had no idea they had a password manager.

 

[decafjava]

Dropbox still the service I use. I have One Drive and I agree it is garbage - non allowed file names, crap for sync services, insanely obscure interface. No thanks. I cloud is used only for IOS backups. Maybe when IPad OS gets a real file system (said to be improving but we’ll see). That said, DB will be crushed or scooped up by one of the quasi monopolies. I’m ready for that one so not tied too closely to it ….

Yea there are issues with OneDrive, it's more I am obliged to use it as part of Office 365 by my work.

 

[richpjr]

Yea there are issues with OneDrive, it's more I am obliged to use it as part of Office 365 by my work.

I use OneDrive all the time and don't run into any issues with it, aside from not always syncing files real fast. What issues do you run into?

 

[svish]

Don't use the app. But I feel like they should give a longer window before completely shutting it down.

 

[TheColtr]

My small non-profit actually uses Dropbox as the backup for our local server. Some of the team members have been using Dropbox password as it was free with the Dropbox subscription.

I’m really not sure why companies do these extra “non-core product” feature that are free and then shut them down. Now we have to transition to, and the team has to learn how to use a new password system.

 

[.wojtek]

And this is why I don't rely on most of the "cloud providers"... way to many times got burned so now keepassxc and locally hosted vaultwarden

 

[Shirasaki]

Literally just received this email yesterday:

View attachment 2533165

Whoever composing that email definitely doesn’t receive the memo.

 

[Hammerd]

I watched their latest quarterly report (link) and it says "Paying users decreased by 15,000 paying users quarter-over-quarter."

And it makes total sense.

• a lot of people have TB at iCloud to backup their photos
• a lot of people have TB at Google Drive to backup their photos
• a lot of people have TB at MS Onedrive from work

I dont see any space for Dropbox here.

And their SMALLEST tier is 11.99 per month when paying monthly. They dont have any smaller tier at like 0.99 per month like everyone else.

I'm not surprised that their stock (NASDAQ: DBX) is totally flat since their debut in 2018

A share is worth EXACTLY the same it was in 2018. Crazy

 

[Octavius8]

DB is my default storage service. iCloud is very simple for files backup.Just wish the photos backup had a decent search engine…