1Password Access after Death, Legacy Contacts

OlavN

There is no functionality for a legacy access system at this time. It has been proposed to the team. I've merged your conversation into an existing topic.

Recovery codes may be an option for you if it's something that you wish to look into. Generate and use recovery codes

• Recovery codes require access to the users email account to complete the recovery
  

Ok - thanks. So it doesn't look like it will come in near future. Thanks.

Hi, looks like a printed paper is the best solution 1password has for emergency access in case of family member's health makes stops them from accessing their personal vaults:
https://1password.community/discussion/136165/how-to-gain-access-to-parents-private-vault-when-they-pass

I had a Lastpass family account, but switched to 1password families as I found it safer and tidier.
But in 1password I can't find a similar solution to what Lastpass had:
Assign emergency access to a member while configuring number of days for denial. Then if the assigned member, using the password management web pages, requests access to my account, I get an email with a link for denying access within the mentioned number of days.

I would agree that some of the web management features in Lastpass were a security risk, maybe this one as well. But it can be done right.

And I simply don't find 1password's (lacking really) solution good enough for this core need of a family password management solution.

While you generally won't distrust family members, it's not ok for any part to have too much access. In case of a breach, what will other's think?

I would find it ok to manually share a print of my Secret Key to a family member.
But I can't see any good option to automated sharing of my 1password username and password after a denial period.

Thanks for listening.

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dragon1 This feature has been requested for years--literally.

Take this 6-year-old Reddit thread requesting the feature, for example: https://www.reddit.com/r/1Password/comments/afvms2/emergency_access_request/

And that person is not the only who has requested such a feature either:

https://www.reddit.com/r/1Password/search/?q=emergency+access

This forum is ripe with requests for the same feature also, but so far the feature has not come to fruition.

No, I'm sorry there are no updates. Sorry. The team is aware.

1P_Tommy concerning your comment nearly 2 months ago... Is there any update/progress in bringing this feature? Any update from your side? And don't say again, that you passed it to the team ;-)

Thank you for sharing your situation and expectations thwn I've passed them along to the appropriate team for consideration in future product offerings.

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Thanks penmoid, I'm in exactly the same situation. I was also under the misconception, until reading this thread, that my wife as Family Organizer would have access to all my passwords in the event of my death after a grace period (and without my veto). False security is almost worse than no security. This missing feature is essential for me and my family and a reason to look for alternatives if 1P doesn't remedy this soon. At least I would expect a roadmap for this after all these years.

Thank you penmoid. I've shared your thoughts on a legacy type access system with the team.

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I’ve been using 1Password since 2007. This didn’t matter to me back then, but now I have a family. Everything they would need in the event of my death is stored in my vault. I had previously thought that making my wife a family organizer would allow her to recover my account, but now I see from this thread that this would require access to my email. I shouldn’t have assumed but please understand that this is an important feature. None of us are going to live forever and all of the methods to handle this with 1Password compromise security.