1Password Access after Death, Legacy Contacts

@Pleonasm Thanks for the details. Didn‘t know about Apple not including the Keychain. But maybe something will come up with Passwords.app

Overall it really is time, that 1Password will do some updates concerning this topic. We need something like Bitwarden is offering here.

I can't make any promises but I can say that we recently saw some interesting movement on a long requested feature. It (the other feature request) is not ready just yet but should be in the next month or so. I hope we'll see movement on the legacy access feature as well. Thanks for being such engaging members of the community.

I have to add, I see many people suggesting a long delay of inactivity for the access to be granted.
I personally don't think it is a good solution, as many credentials are needed quite immediately in case of death, or at least in the following month or so.
We need to be able to fully customize this delay, and setting it as short as we want.
As long as we receive alerts that an access has been requested, using any means possible (emails, push notifications on all apps, etc...), it would be ok to have a short delay.

Thanks @Djeross

I've share that feedback verbatim with the team.

ref: PB-40945150

@thedean -- Legacy access: As an addendum for dummies like me to your very useful post of May 17, here are 1Password's notes on the basics of "the account recovery process" that you refer to there: https://support.1password.com/recovery/ . Thanks for that and your other entries.

@wclark: Thank you for your kind words and for the link.

Thanks for sharing with the community wclark. 🙂

-Dave

I’ve been using 1Password since 2007. This didn’t matter to me back then, but now I have a family. Everything they would need in the event of my death is stored in my vault. I had previously thought that making my wife a family organizer would allow her to recover my account, but now I see from this thread that this would require access to my email. I shouldn’t have assumed but please understand that this is an important feature. None of us are going to live forever and all of the methods to handle this with 1Password compromise security.

Thank you @penmoid. I've shared your thoughts on a legacy type access system with the team.

ref: PB-41092719

Thanks @penmoid, I'm in exactly the same situation. I was also under the misconception, until reading this thread, that my wife as Family Organizer would have access to all my passwords in the event of my death after a grace period (and without my veto). False security is almost worse than no security. This missing feature is essential for me and my family and a reason to look for alternatives if 1P doesn't remedy this soon. At least I would expect a roadmap for this after all these years.