1Password Access after Death, Legacy Contacts

Thanks for sharing with the community wclark. 🙂

-Dave

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

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.

Thanks Djeross

I've share that feedback verbatim with the team.

ref: PB-40945150

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.

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.

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 agree this is a sticking point and it’s getting quite annoying that the most trusted and realiable and functional password manager in the industry doesn’t have anything of that nature.

Even an n-of-m scheme with the emergency kit would already be an improvement. Or a social recovery of sorts. But really a timed delay access granting feature would be the best. With an email alert to family organizers 24 hours before granting access to really verify the inactivity is a result of incapacitation.

dragon1, to the best of my knowledge, an Apple Legacy Contact cannot retrieve passwords stored in the Keychain of the deceased user (see here), and thus this mechanism is not a viable tool for estate planning. Perhaps the forthcoming Apple Passwords app in iOS 18 may include such a feature?

I'm getting more and more pressure from the family concerning this point.

Overall they all like the concept of PW managers and their features. But exactly this is a point where I'm getting more and more under pressure and do not have answers for it as 1PW doesn't have any option here.

Other providers (Bitwarden, Apple and others) have solutions. But 1PW does not.

Hope to see some update coming up in near future as it really is a big point!