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1Password Access after Death, Legacy Contacts
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!
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I liked this post because I think this is an important feature to have.
I use 1Password personally: if I do not have 2FA on my 1password account, would all the information on the Emergency Kit allow someone to get into my account?
What I am not clear about is how would someone be able to access my account if I do have 2FA on the account and they cannot get into my phone to access the authenicator app.- 1P_Dave
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I've shared your request for this type of legacy feature with our product team internally.
Your Emergency Kit, by default, contains the following information:
- Your sign-in address.
- Your email address.
- Your Secret Key.
You would also need to write your account password on the Emergency Kit in order for it to contain all of the information needed to sign into your account. If you're using two-factor authentication then you would need to include that along with your Emergency Kit. For example: a copy of a hardware security key that's added as a second-factor to your account, or a printed copy of the QR code that contains your 2FA TOTP secret (that appears when you turn on 2FA) so that someone can add it to their authenticator app. Alternatively, you would need to ensure that they have access to the device where your authenticator app is installed.Let me know if you have any questions.
-Dave
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Can I remind anyone interested in this feature to like the original post of this Feature Request ?
It only has 22 likes right now, despite 11K views and 122 messages. Come on, let's give it some love ^^
On the other hand, I cannot understand how it is possible that the 2 most liked feature requests still haven't been addressed by now. Some of the 1300 employees could surely take a look at this...
Regards.
- 1P_Dave
The features we implement, and the timing of their release, depend on several factors, such as our existing product roadmap, planned enhancements, urgent bug fixes that may take priority over new requests, the availability of development resources, and input from customers.
We collect feature requests from multiple sources, including email support, community discussions, and other feedback channels. Features aren’t developed based solely on the number of requests, and we don’t want to give the impression that “likes” are the only factor in our decision-making. Because of this, the number of “likes” on a post isn’t always a true reflection of how often a feature is being requested overall or that it might be prioritised over other work on our roadmap.
All feedback is carefully reviewed and prioritised, and our team works to deliver new features and improvements as quickly as possible. Please keep the feedback coming! 🙂
-Dave
Dave,
I certainly understand that there are plenty of variables in play in terms of what guides development of new features. And, I'm sure you get many feature suggestions/requests, but this thread is over 2 years old and has 125 replies, which suggests it is one of, if not the most requested features and as far as I can tell from my research when I switched, it's the only feature that 1P doesn't have that several of your competitors do.
I decided to switch from LP to 1P despite this missing feature, but as lopinc said, I would bet there are alot of potential customers out there that refuse to switch without this feature being available.
My father passed away a few months ago. I had access to his email, which made things easier, but having access to his 1Password vault made things a snap. I would love to make things this easy for our daughter when the ineviitable comes. Please, AgileBits, added legacy capabillity to 1Password.
I too would vote for this feature. 1Password is great but there is no way to recover the passwords in the account without access to things that the designated legacy contact would not have. Huge gap in making this manageable for folks who will be dealing with an overwhelming situation.
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.
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.
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.
Bump. My LP membership is up for renewal, is 1P adding this anytime soon?
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???
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.
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.
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.
