1Password Access after Death, Legacy Contacts

George1pw

I've merged your discussion with the previous subject matter.

Hello,

Different companies take different approaches but I hope 1Password will develop a solution for access sharing that covers three cases:

1. Death
2. Accident that prohibits a victim to share a password
3. 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.

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Agree with all re: the need for this seemingly obvious feature. I was a LastPass user for years. Spent weeks researching a replacement. Purchased NordPass and got surprised by problems triggering on several sights. Swallowed the 2 year NordPass subscription, deleted it, and purchased 1Password. Never even thought to check on the Emergency Access aspect. Assumed all the major players had it. Shame on me. What a major disappointment!

+1 requesting the 1Password team raise the priority to implement this feature. Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to post thoughtful comments. You've taught me a great deal.

This is too important for me. When 1Password gets this functionality, it may give me reason to come back. For now, I have moved to Bitwarden. They have a great tool for this.

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

Thanks BurningOutside

I've shared your thoughts internally.

ref: PB-5125022

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.

Thanks folks. I've share your interest in a Legacy Access feature with the team.

ref: PB-5075958

doctordogfish
I have the same desire:
“I want more and more not to leave a mess for my survivors.“
As 1PW probably has most of the info your survivor “legacy contact” would need, they certainly would not know how to easily find the needed info (e.g., 1PW info, physical credit card & wallet location(s), financial advisor contact info, locations of cash/checkbook in the house, Will/Trust attorney, lockbox location, ……)

My thought is to create a document (e.g., Word, PDF) with the above kind of info (& more - everything I can think of) so that my survivor legacy contact would easily be able to find needed info (at least my thoughts) after my passing.
This doc would be “living” (i.e., add/update info as needed). Print it and/or email it (maybe better) to my survivor legacy contact(s) with a detailed, easily found subject keywords (e.g., “After My Death Info”. Re print/send it after updates.