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

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NOLAQueen
New Contributor
9 months ago
I switched to 1Password from LastPass. The only thing I miss is the emergency contact feature. The thought of my incapacity or death and my family not having access is terrifying to me. The workarounds presented involve significant security concerns versus the elegant and straightforward LastPass solution to this issue that faces all humans. Please address.
1P_Tommy
Moderator
10 months ago
lindea

I've added your voice to the request.

ref: PB-44407345
lindea
New Contributor
10 months ago
+1 for me as well!
1P_Tommy
Moderator
11 months ago
You're most welcome.

I also noted the +1 for you Former Member :)

ref: PB-43823937
Former Member
11 months ago
+1 for me on this feature!
GuitarChord
New Contributor
11 months ago
1P_Tommy
Thank you for getting my request in front of the team that would be in charge of implementing it. I'm hoping that they will consider it seriously. I don't know the demographics of 1Password users, but for those of us old enough to be dealing seriously with estate questions this is a very good feature to have.

I will take a look at the entire discussion above as you suggested.
1P_Tommy
Moderator
11 months ago
GuitarChord

I've merged your topic with an existing one and mentioned to our team you would be interested in seeing this sort of feature. Please look over the discussion above for possible suggestions that you can use. The team will consider all suggestions. I am unable to make any promises about when/if such a feature will be available.

ref: PB-43753208
GuitarChord
New Contributor
11 months ago
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.

1Password Version: 8.10.48.25
Extension Version: Not Provided
OS Version: Win 11
Browser: Firefox
1P_Tommy
Moderator
12 months ago
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.
doctordogfish
New Contributor
12 months ago
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.

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