I am not planning to die anytime soon, but sometimes things happen. Beyond securing my 1Password details in an Escrow account, or with a lawyer, or in a bank lockbox, does 1Password offer any means of allowing one or more designated member of the 1Password Families account to access the 1Password account in case of the primary owner's passing? Apple now offers the ability to add one or more https://support.apple.com/en-us/102631 so that in case of your untimely demise, an Access Key and a Death Certificate allows Apple to grant the holder of both of these to get a new Apple ID that has access to your Apple ID Account. It may be something 1Password wants to consider, though I realize that reviewing Death Certificates may not be on the high list of priorities for the team! 1Password Version: Not Provided Extension Version: Not Provided OS Version: Not Provided Browser: Not Provided

@ooglek We do not have any available options like what you're seeking. Well, short of sharing the Emergency Kit and password. I hope that will change. For now, I've shared my Emergency Kit with my adult children, and I keep my password secured in a safe (inside a sealed envelope), which will be opened when I pass. It's a grim subject, but you are 100% correct. It is one that needs to be addressed beforehand. I recommend ensuring anyone in a family membership has a secondary organizer. 🚑 Recover accounts for family or team members I went through this several years ago with my wife. We prepared using the above method. We thought I would be the first to go. That didn't happen. Life throws you those curveballs. I can let the team know this subject is also on your mind. ref: PB-37977565

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.

Hello, Different companies take different approaches but I hope 1Password will develop a solution for access sharing that covers three cases: Death Accident that prohibits a victim to share a password Memory loss (eg. Alzheimer disease) I would prefer is simple solution that requires no intervention form 1Password: it can be as easy as a mail that's send to several addresses with instructions and a link to one or more secured passwords when I have not used the 1PW client for a couple of weeks. For what's it worth: we now use the Password Recovery Code functionality from 1Password. We don't want a burglar to have full access to all passwords because he stole one paper document so our sisters and brothers have part of the recovery key and part of a LUKS encryption key in a closed envelope and a LUKS encrypted SD card with an export of the password manager, an export of all 2FA codes, recovery codes, recovery files etc. etc. Thanks. 1Password Version: Not Provided Extension Version: Not Provided OS Version: Not Provided Browser: Not Provided

Adding to this mountain of requests for legacy access. I use Simple Login instead of Fastmail for unique email addresses for every service so, on top of family not being aware of unique long passwords for every service, having MFA or a passkey for access- they won't even know what email address is being used for any given service. 1Password access after that bus finally catches me is going to be critical. That said, I'm hoping the legacy feature, if and when we get it, allows designation of a specific vault (or a tag/category) to provide access to. I'd like to be able to organize or some how specify which credentials should be shared if I'm snuffed out. I've got nearly 500 items in 1Password currently and I can only see that growing as time goes on and I use the tool for more and more items which I expect would be stressful, confusing, and exhausting to sift through when successors would need maybe a dozen or two credentials. I'd also prefer to keep things such as shared, work related, social media and other dumb things private and basically make it as simple as possible for less tech-savvy and unfamiliar people to get access to the few important things they'll need.

Hi, I'm also interested a lot in this legacy/emergency access. Bitwarden and Ente have it. For now I'm forced to have this convoluted setup: - print the Emergency Kit, give it to family members - I use an open-source third party emergency access service (https://weexpire.org/) to E2EE encrypt a note with my 1Password master passphrase. With a 7 days wait time - it gives me a link (containing the encrypted note) and an access code that I put in an item "in case of emergency" in a shared vault with my family member/emergency contact When needed they open the link, provide the access code on the website, wait 7 days, re-open the link, get my master passphrase, use this with my emergency kit they already have to connect to my account. Clearly not ideal for ease of use

1Password Access after Death, Legacy Contacts

120 Replies

MobyDuck
New Contributor
3 months ago
I just wanted to add my "me too". I currently keep the emergency kit in a bank safety deposit box which has been fine, but as more and more branches shut their doors it's increasingly expensive and impractical to use these kinds of facilities.
- MobyDuck
  New Contributor
  2 months ago
  Annnd my bank safety deposit box has now closed. There are no more affordable facilities anywhere near me.
  I’d quite happily pay a premium for this feature.
  - BikerBob38
    Dedicated Contributor
    2 months ago
    Where do you live that you are only now losing your safety deposit box? Here, in the Washington, DC metro area, they disappeared 10 or 15 years ago.
lopinc
Occasional Contributor
4 months ago
Bump. My LP membership is up for renewal, is 1P adding this anytime soon?
BikerBob38
Dedicated Contributor
4 months ago
I gave my daughter the master password for 1Password to place in her safety deposit box.
I was under the presumption that if she downloaded the 1Password.app to her Mac, she could then log in with my master password and access all my info. Am I wrong?
If I am wrong, having the admin password to my Mac, she could log onto my Mac, launch 1P, log in and have access to my 1P data. Right???
dragon1
Dedicated Contributor
6 months ago
Looks like we will not get this feature in near future.
It's not business priority and within their latest podcast Sara & Dave explained in long ways how good it is to print out security sheet paper and so on... So I don't think we will see this feature soon.
rzack
New Contributor
6 months ago
An outside solution like this one can help . You assign a Legacy Manager, store your 1password emergency kit or backup passwords in a distributed cold storage network, and then when you pass away, this is all securely transferred to your executor or trustee.
macinnis_agm
New Contributor
6 months ago
To the 1Password staff: This is extremely important. I was just about to get 1Password for my family. But then I realized it does not have this critically important feature — legacy emergency contact access.
So, I decided to wait until you add it. For me, the main reason to use 1Password, instead of my current private solution, is legacy access. That is NOT the same thing as putting everything in a shared vault that my family can access now.
Please fix this ASAP. When you do, please notify the community. Then I will buy and start using 1Password.
ulayera
New Contributor
7 months ago
I also need this feature. I switched from Lastpass and didn’t even checked id it existed, it just was so obvious for me.

Please please implement this.
shingy
Occasional Contributor
7 months ago
Like many others have posted, I moved from LastPass and this is the only feature that 1Password is lacking. So, add me to the chorus of users requesting this. Thanks.
williakz
Dedicated Contributor
8 months ago
Just a placeholder to make sure I don't get dropped in the transition to the new support environment.
VirgilBoy
Frequent Contributor
8 months ago
I’ve been actually working on this whole project when I stumbled over this discussion. Everything I’ve been trying to do would be cured with a proper and secure legacy access person assigned. I sure hope someone gets this project evolving as soon as possible.!