Winding down Dropbox Passwords: a password manager killed in 2025
Announced 2025 (fully discontinued 28 October 2025)
Dropbox shut down Dropbox Passwords, the password manager it had launched in 2020, in a phased 2025 wind-down ending 28 October 2025 — after which all stored credentials and payment cards were permanently deleted from its servers.
What happened
Dropbox Passwords launched in 2020 as a built-in password manager: it stored logins and payment cards, offered autofill across devices, and added dark-web monitoring. Dropbox promoted it as a reason to stay inside the Dropbox ecosystem, and bundled it into paid plans.
In 2025 Dropbox announced it was discontinuing the product, telling users only that it was focusing 'on enhancing other features in our core product.' The shutdown ran in phases: on 28 August 2025 the service became read-only and autofill stopped; on 11 September 2025 the mobile app stopped working; and on 28 October 2025 the product was fully discontinued, after which all stored credentials and payment data were permanently deleted from Dropbox's servers and dark-web monitoring ceased.
Users had to export their entire vault to a CSV file and migrate to a rival manager before the cutoff or lose the data outright. For a tool whose entire purpose was holding people's most sensitive secrets, the burden of a clean, secure migration — and the hard deletion deadline — fell entirely on users.
Impact
Killing a password manager is a uniquely high-stakes form of feature removal: the product holds the keys to a person's entire online life, and a missed export deadline meant permanent loss of stored credentials. The shutdown reinforced the long-running pattern of Dropbox abandoning add-on consumer features and deepened distrust about building any workflow on a Dropbox-owned tool, pushing users toward dedicated managers such as 1Password and Bitwarden.