Bitwarden Announces Entry "Archiving"

Popular password manager Bitwarden has announced a new "archiving" feature, available immediately to paid users.

The archive feature will remove selected entries into a "folder" of sorts, all in one place (without subfolders) but hidden from the main view. Additionally, they will not show up in search results or autofill suggestions. (This will not affect any shared entries for the other person.) Interestingly, archived items will still show up in vault health reports, letting you know if a credential has been compromised.

Bitwarden touts this as a way to get less-used credentials out of the way of everyday use, but this could also be valuable for those managing old accounts. On the one hand, there are old accounts that you may not use again but it would be unwise to completely delete, such as an old Gmail account you used for years before getting into privacy.

Likewise, there are some services who refuse to delete your data or honor deletion requests. In those cases, we often suggest populating them with fake data and then changing the credentials to something secure and holding on to the logins in the hopes that someday down the road the service will start offering data deletion. This new offering could be useful in scenarios like these, and probably several others.