1Password Access after Death, Legacy Contacts

Thank you for sharing your situation and expectations @thwn I've passed them along to the appropriate team for consideration in future product offerings.

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@1P_Tommy concerning your comment nearly 2 months ago... Is there any update/progress in bringing this feature? Any update from your side? And don't say again, that you passed it to the team ;-)

No, I'm sorry there are no updates. Sorry. The team is aware.

@dragon1 This feature has been requested for years--literally.

Take this 6-year-old Reddit thread requesting the feature, for example: https://www.reddit.com/r/1Password/comments/afvms2/emergency_access_request/

And that person is not the only who has requested such a feature either:

https://www.reddit.com/r/1Password/search/?q=emergency+access

This forum is ripe with requests for the same feature also, but so far the feature has not come to fruition.

Hi, looks like a printed paper is the best solution 1password has for emergency access in case of family member's health makes stops them from accessing their personal vaults:
https://1password.community/discussion/136165/how-to-gain-access-to-parents-private-vault-when-they-pass

I had a Lastpass family account, but switched to 1password families as I found it safer and tidier.
But in 1password I can't find a similar solution to what Lastpass had:
Assign emergency access to a member while configuring number of days for denial. Then if the assigned member, using the password management web pages, requests access to my account, I get an email with a link for denying access within the mentioned number of days.

I would agree that some of the web management features in Lastpass were a security risk, maybe this one as well. But it can be done right.

And I simply don't find 1password's (lacking really) solution good enough for this core need of a family password management solution.

While you generally won't distrust family members, it's not ok for any part to have too much access. In case of a breach, what will other's think?

I would find it ok to manually share a print of my Secret Key to a family member.
But I can't see any good option to automated sharing of my 1password username and password after a denial period.

Thanks for listening.

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Ok - thanks. So it doesn't look like it will come in near future. Thanks.

@OlavN

There is no functionality for a legacy access system at this time. It has been proposed to the team. I've merged your conversation into an existing topic.

Recovery codes may be an option for you if it's something that you wish to look into. Generate and use recovery codes

• Recovery codes require access to the users email account to complete the recovery
  

As I age and see the disarray some family members have left for others, I want more and more not to leave a mess for my survivors. This is really, really important. If 1PW is not yet ready to implement a specific purpose-built program for this, I would really appreciate a comprehensive discussion on the website (not abbreviated in the Community) as to all the potential work-arounds we could use. It should be written for laypeople, and not laden with shoptalk.

@doctordogfish

Any ideas or discussion would likely remain here as part of the community. This is the very reason for this community: to promote discussions and offer feedback while having a place to interact with others like yourself. It's here to foster new ideas and bring suggestions to the table. I can't think of a better pace than the community.

If/when something official comes to light, I'm sure you'll see it documented on 1Password.com, ready for everyone's consumption.

Thank you for the feedback. I will share it with the team for future consideration.

In LastPass there is a feature called Emergency Access. You designate someone to be your emergency access contact with a time period. If something happens to you, your emergency access contact can login to your Vault after that time period has expired.

Does something like this exist in 1Password? All I can find is the ability to share passwords. I don't want to share my passwords unless I'm incapacitated, and then my emergency contact would take over.

Hopefully this all makes sense. If the feature doesn't exist in 1Password, how do I go about requesting it in a future upgrade.

Not sure this is the right category but the access would be for a family member.

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